Kenya faces a dilemma over continued protection of its manufacturers amid risk of reprisals from other World Trade Organisation (WTO) members aggrieved by its actions.
HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam is expected to reopen its doors to imports of three kinds of Australian fruit on August 1, said Hoang Trung, deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Plant Protection Department.
African countries have been urged to demand new global trade rules during the forthcoming World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference to be held in Nairobi in December to ensure that the continent benefits from global trade.
China's smartphone manufacturers and consumers will win after dozens of countries agreed to abolish duties on more than 200 technology products - from advanced computer chips to GPS devices, printer cartridges and video-game consoles.
The World Trade Organization finalised a list of 201 information technology products to be freed from import tariffs in a $1.3 trillion deal on Friday, but said it was still short of the critical mass of countries needed to put it into force.
The increasing number of trade-restrictive measures, including new tariff barriers to trade, remains a cause for concern, says a new report from the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Trade negotiators tentatively agreed on Saturday to eliminate tariffs on an array of technology products valued at $1 trillion worth of global commerce.
Beginning another trade dispute in the sector, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced the instigation of an anti-dumping (AD) investigation into grain-oriented flat-rolled electrical steel (GOES) imported from Japan, South Korea, and the European Union (EU).