Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday he does not think the Group of 20 debate will lean toward favoring protectionism over free trade ahead of the group's summit in July, even as the new U.S. administration threatened to impose measures to restrict imports.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has made affirmative determinations in its preliminary phase anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of aluminum foil from China, the agency said on Friday.
India has imposed an anti-dumping duty of up to USD 135.40 per tonne for a period of five years on imports of a chemical used in foam making from Thailand.
The United States will impose preliminary anti-subsidy duties averaging 20 percent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday, escalating a long-running trade dispute between the two neighbors.
China has proposed tightening the rules on when countries can impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs, saying their use was rising and that such charges were often misused and distorted international trade.
The federal government will impose dumping duties on paper exported from four countries including China and Indonesia in a crackdown on a practice that was causing "material injury" to Australia's sole copy paper manufacturer.
Australia and New Zealand dairy industry leaders said on Wednesday they would support moves by the United States to draw the World Trade Organization into a trade dispute with Canada, after President Donald Trump said existing rules were unfair.