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WTO failure points to fragmented future for global trade

12/08/2014

(Reuters) - India has dealt a potentially fatal blow to the World Trade Organization's hopes of modernizing the rules of global commerce and remaining the central forum for multilateral trade deals.

Japan agrees to lift embargo on Polish beef

05/08/2014

Japan has agreed to remove its embargo on Polish beef from Aug. 1, the Polish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

VN steps up Aussie beef imports

05/08/2014

HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam has become the second largest importer of Australian cattle, behind Indonesia, according to BeefCentral.com, a free news website and market intelligence service dedicated to the Australian beef industry.

Rethinking the global trade regime

05/08/2014

India’s dropping a bombshell on the conclusion of the WTO agreement on trade facilitation negotiated in Bali last December — which promised to streamline customs and other procedures that impose heavy costs on doing business across national borders — is the latest symptom of a sick multilateral trade regime.

Foreign Ministers Rekindle Interest in EU-ASEAN FTA

05/08/2014

Foreign ministers attending the 20th EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Brussels last week have raised the possibility of resuming negotiations for an EU-ASEAN free trade agreement (FTA) once the ASEAN Economic Community comes into effect at the end of 2015.

Australia wants G20 to focus more on trade after WTO deal collapse

05/08/2014

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Australia is urging the Group of 20 advanced and emerging countries to put more emphasis on boosting global trade in their proposals for economic growth, particularly in the wake of last week's collapsed World Trade Organization customs pact.

Solar industry, users split over anti-dumping

05/08/2014

Even as finance minister Arun Jaitley is expected to take a decision on whether to impose anti-dumping duty on import of solar cells by mid-August, the domestic industry seems split in the middle over the issue.

Global Trade Talks Suffer Another Setback

05/08/2014

The collapse last week of a global trade agreement on simplifying customs rules will make it much harder for the World Trade Organization to finish its much-delayed Doha round of negotiations, which has a much broader agenda to lower tariffs and reduce barriers to trade.