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Japan pork group proposes halving tariffs for TPP agreement

22/03/2015

(Bloomberg) — Japan, the world’s largest pork importer, can accept a 50 percent reduction in import tariffs to help pave the way for the nation to reach an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a producer group said.

NZ, US escalate WTO action against Indonesia on import restrictions

19/03/2015

New Zealand and the US have escalated a complaint against Indonesia to the World Trade Organisation on import restrictions that led to the collapse in New Zealand beef exports to the southeast Asian country.

U.S., New Zealand launch challenge to Indonesian import barriers

18/03/2015

(Reuters) - The United States and New Zealand on Wednesday challenged Indonesia's import restrictions on food and other farm products, saying barriers to goods ranging from potatoes to poultry breached international trade obligations.

U.S. wants WTO to stamp out evasion of antidumping duties

18/03/2015

The United States wants members of the World Trade Organization to support a crackdown on schemes which help companies evade "antidumping duties" - punitive import tariffs levied on unfair foreign competition.

EU Requests WTO Mediation On Russian Tariffs

18/03/2015

Russia has blocked the European Union's request for a World Trade Organization panel to mediate in a dispute over Russian tariffs on imports of certain agricultural and manufacturing sector goods.

Vietnam: Garment exports surge by 18 per cent

17/03/2015

HA NOI (VNS) — Garment exports in January and February posted an 18 per cent year-on-year increase to US$3.4 billion, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) said.

VN eyes agricultural support from Japan

17/03/2015

HCM CITY (VNS) — A seminar will be held on March 23-24 in Lam Dong Province to strengthen investment cooperation in the agricultural sector between Japanese and local businesses.

Removal of EEU non-tariff barriers expected to raise Belarus' GDP by 2.8%

17/03/2015

MINSK, 17 March (BelTA) - The Center for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) published the first comprehensive assessment of the impact of non-tariff barriers on mutual trade in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and provided the recommendations on the ways of removing them, BelTA learned from the EDB press center