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WTO Calls Out U.S. On Chinese Solar Tariffs But Real Issue Is Manufactured Back Home

21/07/2014

On Monday the World Trade Organization (WTO) found the United States guilty of violating global trade rules when it imposed punitive import duties in 2012 on a number of Chinese products, including solar panels. In the $7.2 billion case, the 3-member WTO panel found that the U.S. was unjustifiably imposing countervailing duties as a response to the alleged subsidies that the Chinese government was providing to exporting firms.

TPPing over?

16/07/2014

Why is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) taking so long to conclude? It has already missed three deadlines, the latest being October 2013. And President Barack Obama’s recent Asia visit did not produce the widely anticipated push towards the finish line. And what will the TPP will look like when finally concluded? Despite WikiLeaks’ best efforts, the negotiations are walled by secrecy. Will the TPP be the comprehensive twenty-first century agreement proponents tout? Or will it wallow as a watered-down compromise, riddled with exemptions, as detractors predict?

WTO Rejects the Majority of India’s Challenges to U.S. Countervailing Duties Taken to Address India’s Unfair Steel Subsidies

16/07/2014

Washington, D.C. – United States Trade Representative Michael Froman announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel issued a mixed result, rejecting numerous claims brought by India in a challenge against U.S. trade remedy laws and determinations issued by the Department of Commerce regarding imports of certain steel products from India.

WTO faults U.S. over duties on Chinese, Indian steel goods

16/07/2014

(Reuters) - World Trade Organisation judges said on Monday the United States broke its rules in imposing hefty duties on Chinese steel products, solar panels and a range of other goods that Washington argues enjoyed government subsidies.

WTO backs key Indian claims in case against U.S. steel duties

16/07/2014

(Reuters) - The World Trade Organization on Monday backed some key claims by India against countervailing duties imposed by the United States on certain steel products, but rejected others.

US may slash anti-dumping tax for Vietnamese pangasius

16/07/2014

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has planned to reduce its anti-dumping tax for more Vietnamese pangasius exporters after the most recent administrative review on anti-dumping tax rates for imported goods, according to a state agency under the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade.

TPP negotiation round in Canada fails

16/07/2014

Another negotiation round for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement has recently wrapped up in Ottawa, Canada, without any deal, even on a date for the next meeting.

Swiss face tough US-EU trade deal decisions

16/07/2014

A free trade agreement between Brussels and Washington could shave billions off the Swiss economy, if Switzerland is left sitting on the sidelines. That’s the conclusion of a government-sponsored study.