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Mexico imposes tariffs on steel from Spain, U.S. and India

16/07/2015

Mexico imposed provisional import duties on carbon steel tubing with seams from the United States, Spain and India, on Tuesday as it investigates possible dumping.

Vietnam: Exporters lack tariff knowhow

16/07/2015

HCM CITY (VNS) — Vietnamese exporters are not making use of Foreign Trade Agreement (FTA) opportunities as many of them do not know how to claim priority tariffs from FTAs.

EAC in drive to eliminate barriers to trade in services

16/07/2015

Member states of the East African Community (EAC) appear to be racing against time to meet a self-prescribed deadline of December 2015 by which they pledged to have fully implemented the Common Market Protocol, which came into force on July 1, 2010.

China starts acrylic fiber anti-dumping investigation

16/07/2015

The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) on Tuesday beganlooking into allegations of the dumping of acrylic fiber imported from Japan,the Republic of Korea and Turkey.

Australia "disappointed" at Indonesia's decision to sharply cut live cattle exports

16/07/2015

CANBERRA, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government on Tuesday expressed deep disappointment at Indonesia's decision to drastically slash the number of live cattle it aims to imports from Australia.

WTO to resume talks on expanding tariff-free digital products

16/07/2015

TOKYO -- Negotiators will gather in Geneva starting Tuesday to discuss removing import tariffs on 200 or so electronics products under the tutelage of the World Trade Organization, but the prospects of an agreement remain unclear.

VN: Agriculture exports slow down

16/07/2015

HA NOI (VNS) — Export growth in the first six months of this year was affected by a decline in export turnover of the agricultural and aquatic sectors and fuel and minerals, said Nguyen Tien Vy, head of the Department of Planning under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Food subsidies still ‘haunt’ India at WTO

16/07/2015

Even as the WTO [World Trade Organization] members are currently engaged in thrashing out a work program for the 10th Ministerial at Nairobi [Kenya] in December, 2015, India is concerned over the delay in reaching a ‘permanent solution’ to the problem of dealing with food procurement subsidies. Its worry stems from the fact that the developed countries [primarily USA and EU] could use it as a bargaining chip for extracting concessions in other areas such as industrial goods and services.