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Vietnamese firms must learn trade rules

16/02/2016

Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, Director of the WTO Centre under the VCCI, spoke to the press on the need to use protectionism in international trade.

Australia slaps anti-dumping duties on canned Italian tomatoes

16/02/2016

Feb 11 Australia has imposed anti-dumping duties on two brands of Italian tinned tomatoes, after finding they were unfairly subsidised by European Union payments to growers, the government's anti-dumping commission said on Thursday.

The WTO’s decision to end agricultural export subsidies is good news for farmers and consumers

16/02/2016

When I started to work in development cooperation in the late 1980s, one-third of EU agricultural subsidies—about 10 billion euros annually (equivalent to about 17 billion euros today)—were spent on export subsidies.

Is Free Trade Really Free? Why Protectionism Is Alive and Well

16/02/2016

Recently, it was reported that the three largest U.S. airlines — American, United, and Delta — are protesting three major Persian Gulf-based airlines’ right to fly in the U.S. market. The American carriers claim that the Gulf carriers (Qatar Airways, Emirates, and Etihad) have received $42 billion in subsidies from their governments over the past several years, amounting to an unfair trade advantage that enables them to offer better and lower-cost service.

Tra fish exports to UK increase sharply

07/02/2016

HA NOI (VNS) – Tra fish exports to the UK hit US$46 million last year, an increase of 13.9 percent against 2014, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

China says EU should take steel dumping claims to WTO

06/02/2016

China's Ministry of Commerce said that claims it was dumping steel in Europe should be put to the World Trade Organization (WTO), responding to reports that the European Commission (EC) was preparing to impose duties on imported Chinese steel.

No Anti-Dumping Duties on Steel Imports for Indonesia's Automotive Sector

06/02/2016

The Indonesian government approved the request of Indonesia's automotive sector to be exempted from the anti-dumping duties that have been imposed on imports of steel from specific countries. Through Finance Ministry Regulation No. 65/2013 on Anti-Import Duties, the government set import duties - ranging between 7 and 55.6 percent - for steel imports from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam in an effort to protect the domestic steel manufacturing industry amid a global steel oversupply (particularly caused by a supply glut in China).

EU sets duties on steel rebar imports from China, industry cries foul

05/02/2016

Jan 29 The European Union will impose duties on imports from China of steel bar used to reinforce concrete while its investigation into dumping by Chinese producers continues, the EU's official journal said on Friday.