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Australia pressing Canada for greater access to wine in TPP trade talks

31/05/2015

Australia is pressuring a reluctant Canada to lower trade barriers on its wine industry, pushing for similar concessions that were won by the European Union, The Canadian Press has learned.

India: Government imposes anti-dumping duty on electronic calculators, spares casio

30/05/2015

The government, today, imposed an anti-dumping duty on imports of electronic calculator originating from China. However, the ruling excludes electronic calculators of the Chinese manufacturer Casio and some other types such as printing calculators, graphing calculators and programming calculators.

Pakistan: Govt to contest South African anti-dumping duties on cement

30/05/2015

ISLAMABAD: The government is working on two options to challenge South African anti-dumping duties on Pakistan’s exports of cement.

Thyssenkrupp Europe asks EU for quicker anti-dumping actions

29/05/2015

ThyssenKrupp Europe ceo Andreas Goss has urged the European Union to guarantee fair trade through faster and more effective antidumping actions at a Eurofer European Steel Day in Brussels attended by Kallanish.

The hidden costs of trade treaties

29/05/2015

The free trade treaties with Canada (CETA) and the United States (TTIP) are not threatening European standards, the negotiators in Brussels assure us. Yet environmental and food safety regulations have already been weakened.

EU opens China solar industry dumping probe

29/05/2015

EU regulators opened a probe into the solar power panel industry in China, the European Commission said on Friday, in response to accusations that Chinese companies were dodging import duties by exporting via Taiwan and Malaysia.

WTO Panel to Hear US, New Zealand Challenge of Indonesia Agriculture Import Restrictions

28/05/2015

The past two weeks have marked a busy period for the global trade arbiter, with a new WTO panel being established to hear the complaints of the US and New Zealand over claims of illegal agricultural import restrictions by Indonesia. Appeals were also filed by China and Japan, respectively, in their dispute over steel anti-dumping duties, while Tokyo has also launched a separate case against Seoul over alleged import restrictions.

Why the world needs to ban fuel subsidies

28/05/2015

On my maiden trip to Saudi Arabia, in late 2014, I received a crash course on unsustainable Saudi economics within minutes of landing, when my driver pulled into a gas station just outside Jeddah airport. We were in a big BMW 7 Series sedan and the fill-up—about 60 litres—cost the equivalent of about $8 (all currency in U.S. dollars). I was astonished. For Saudis, gasoline is much cheaper than bottled water.