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Moon Enlists Chaebol Execs to Disarm Trump's Trade Threat

28/06/2017

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and started renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The challenge for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who heads to Washington this week, is to keep Trump away from another deal the billionaire dislikes: their 2012 free-trade pact.

Dreyfus CEO says 'confident' Argentina will win biodiesel case

28/06/2017

Commodity trader Louis Dreyfus Co's chief executive officer told Reuters on Wednesday he was "confident" Argentina would prevail in fighting an "unjust" biodiesel dumping case in the United States.

Canadian Ministers Discuss US Anti-Dumping Duties

28/06/2017

Natural resources ministers from Canada's federal and provincial governments have said that they stand firmly behind the forest industry, following the imposition by the US of new duties on imports of softwood lumber.

Caisse fires back at Boeing over Bombardier claims

28/06/2017

Quebec's largest pension fund has dismissed as "absolute nonsense" claims by Boeing Co (BA.N) that its $1.5 billion investment in Bombardier Inc's BBD.b.TO rail business amounted to an unfair subsidy to the Canadian company.

Auto firms ask to lower component import taxes

28/06/2017

High import taxes on auto components and parts, packaging and logistics expenses are major reasons behind locally-assembled cars costing 10-20 per cent higher than imports from Thailand and Indonesia.

US considering broad-scale measures to fight steel dumping

27/06/2017

The United States might have no choice but to resort to "broad-scale" measures to fight the problem of steel dumping should its partners fail to help find a common solution to the problem, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Tuesday.

US initiates anti-dumping investigation on VN’s polyester

27/06/2017

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) last week announced the initiation of anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on the import of fine denier polyester staple fibre from China, India, Republic of Korea, Taiwan and Việt Nam.

US Brazilian beef ban casts doubt on Mercusor trade agreement

27/06/2017

A move by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ban imports of fresh Brazilian beef has added weight to calls to remove agriculture from a free trade agreement between the EU and countries in the Mercosur trading-bloc.