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China halts anti-dumping probe into EU, Japan dialysis kit makers

16/12/2014

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has halted an anti-dumping investigation into European and Japanese makers of blood dialysis equipment, ending a six-month probe that had extended to the Chinese market leader, Germany's Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) AG & Co KGaA.

Anti-dumping regime gets some teeth

16/12/2014

An announcement by Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane and his parliamentary secretary Bob Baldwin was overlooked on Monday as Sydney's hostage horror transfixed the country, but it flags a serious attempt to stop Australia being a dumping ground for foreign companies.

US imposes antidumping, countervailing duties on Chinese steel wire rod

15/12/2014

The US International Trade Commission voted Monday that the domestic industry has been injured by imports of Chinese steel wire rod, and as a result, dumping margins and subsidy rates exceeding 100% will be enacted.

U.S. to levy duties on Chinese steel wire rod imports

15/12/2014

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission confirmed duties on imports of carbon and alloy steel wire rod from China on Monday after finding the goods injured the U.S. industry.

WTO postpones talks on IT tariffs

13/12/2014

Trade officials from countries belonging to the World Trade Organization have postponed a deal to eliminate tariffs on high-technology products.

W.T.O. Fails on High-Tech Tariff Deal

12/12/2014

WASHINGTON — Last month, their faces beaming with self-congratulatory enthusiasm, President Obama and China’s president, Xi Jinping, announced an agreement to drop tariffs on a range of high-technology products, an accord that was supposed to propel far more significant trade talks in the weeks to come.

US, South Africa in a flap over chicken trade

12/12/2014

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Two United States senators have threatened to try to block South Africa from a lucrative U.S.-Africa trade agreement if Pretoria doesn't lift import duties on cheaper cuts of chicken.

So What Does The Solar Industry Think About Anti-Dumping Hearings

12/12/2014

The testimonies coming out of the anti-dumping hearings are horrendous, but what does the solar industry think? Peter Varadi, who founded the first solar company back in 1974, questions why the US would provoke a trade war with China on the basis of a petition from maybe a half-dozen companies. The Solar Energy Industries Association agrees.