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To go ahead with Trans-Pacific Partnership or not?

19/06/2014

INDEED, that is the question. But not just for Malaysia and other potential partners, now numbering 11, of the United States. It is a question for the Americans as well.

International Trade Commission renews dumping tariff on frozen Chinese crawfish through 2017

19/06/2014

NEW ORLEANS — The International Trade Commission has renewed the antidumping tariff on frozen Chinese crawfish meat into 2017 — expected but good news after a bad crawfish season.

China probes dumping by EU, Japan dialysis-kit makers

19/06/2014

SHANGHAI, June 13 (Reuters) - China on Friday launched an anti-dumping investigation into makers of blood dialysis equipment in the European Union and Japan, including market leader Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) AG & Co KGaA, challenging the international firms who currently dominate the global and Chinese markets.

Appvion disappointed with results in German antidumping review

19/06/2014

APPLETON, Wis., June 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Appvion, Inc. reacted with disappointment to a decision issued by the Department of Commerce (the Department) in the final results in the fourth administrative review of the antidumping order on imports of lightweight thermal paper (LWTP) fromGermany.

TPP: US, Japan Meet to Iron Out Automobile Trade Differences

19/06/2014

US and Japanese trade officials met in Washington earlier this week in an effort to resolve some of their outstanding issues related to automobile trade, with just weeks until the next meeting of chief negotiators for the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement.

Renewable energy, EU antidumping & the end of a ‘green bubble’

19/06/2014

Over the last decade, the EU’s decisions to impose antidumping duties have mainly benefited Europe’s metals and chemical sectors. A good third of the antidumping duties imposed target Chinese exports. But now, renewables are the new kid on the bloc and they don’t only target China. It’s all a tale of subsidies that has created a new powerful and defensive lobby in the renewables industry.

Anger by U.S. farmers threatens ambitious Pacific trade pact

13/06/2014

(Reuters) - U.S. farmers are in an uproar over signs Japan will maintain some barriers to agricultural exports under a Pacific trade pact, which threatens to unravel a deal that is central to U.S. efforts to retain economic and security influence in the region.

EU, Faroe Islands reach deal to lift herring ban soon

13/06/2014

BRUSSELS, June 11 (Reuters) - The European Commission could lift its import ban on herring from the Faroe Islands within months after reaching a deal to protect fish stocks in the Atlantic, it said on Wednesday.