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Steel dumping claims ‘unfair’

12/04/2016

Proposing a probe into alleged steel dumping of products from China "is not fair", as steel production in India does not meet demand there and protectionism is not a solution, a Chinese national consulting firm said on Wednesday.

India serves steel products anti-dumping notice on China, others

11/04/2016

A government body has issued notices to China, Japan and South Korea proposing to initiate a probe on the 'dumping' of some steel products into India, a source said.

Imports of cheap crude palm stifle Uganda’s oilseed farming

11/04/2016

The Kazimingi area of Jinja, once designated as Uganda’s industrial hub, is today a shell of rusty disused oil mills and crumbling buildings – testimony to a bygone era, when smallholder farmers prospered by growing cotton and other oil seeds to feed the mills.

Antidumping duties slow China tire exports

11/04/2016

China’s tire exports in 2015 fell 4 percent in volume and 16 percent in value—declines the China Rubber Industry Association attributed primarily to the antidumping duties imposed by the U.S.

TPP will push Japanese farmers to grow cheaper rice in bid to boost exports

11/04/2016

The nation’s farmers are set to produce less expensive rice than existing brands to boost exports, following the signing of a Pacific free trade deal that will expose them to fierce foreign competition, farming sources said Sunday.

The not-so-slow-motion steel trade war

11/04/2016

As a symbol of the year thus far and a taste of things to come you could not do much better than China’s imposition of tariffs on European and some Asian steel.

Japan to relax criteria for anti-dumping duty applications

08/04/2016

TOKYO -- The Japanese government intends to loosen its rules on anti-dumping duties to better protect industries such as steel and chemicals, which are susceptible to floods of cheap imports from China and elsewhere.

Brief: Brazil takes Indonesia, Thailand to WTO over beef and sugar

08/04/2016

Brazil has launched two complaints at the World Trade Organization, to challenge Indonesia over its restrictions on Brazilian beef and Thailand over support given to its sugar sector, the WTO said on Tuesday.