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EU may challenge $8.7 billion U.S. tax breaks in Boeing-Airbus trade dispute

20/05/2014

(Reuters) - The European Union is considering raising the pressure on the United States in the world's largest trade dispute by challenging tax breaks that encouraged planemaker Boeing (BA.N) to keep production of its latest jet in Washington state, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

US DOC adjusts anti-dumping duty on Vietnam’s pangasius

20/05/2014

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP) reported the US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the final results of the ninth administrative review (POR9) from August 1 st , 2011 to July 31 st , 2012 on certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.

U.S. sets antidumping duties on Japanese steel

20/05/2014

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—The U.S. Department of Commerce said it has set preliminary antidumping duties of up to 407.52 percent on imports of nonoriented electrical steel from countries including Japan, China and Germany.

U.S. to levy antidumping duty on 6 economies including Japan, China

20/05/2014

The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday it has decided to temporarily impose duties on steel products from six economies including China, Japan and Sweden, saying they are sold at unreasonably low prices in the United States.

U.S. imposes anti-dumping duties on Taiwanese steel makers

20/05/2014

Washington, May 16 (CNA) The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) said Friday that it has set preliminary anti-dumping duties on Taiwanese non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) makers as imports of their products have caused material damage to the U.S. steel market.

Vietnam pursues first anti dumping case despite objections

20/05/2014

The Vietnam Competition Authority plans to organize a public hearing of the country’s first anti dumping investigation regarding stainless steel imports next month, in spite of objections from importers.

U.S. regulators vote to investigate sugar imports from Mexico

13/05/2014

(Reuters) - U.S. trade regulators ruled on Friday in favor of investigating allegations that Mexico is dumping cheap sugar in the United States, taking Washington closer to imposing penalties on sweetener imports.

How to Get WTO Talks Moving: Take on Agriculture Subsidies

13/05/2014

As mentioned in my last piece here, there has been much hand-wringing in recent years over the inability of the WTO to achieve new trade liberalization. The modest success of the recent Trade Facilitation Agreement was a small victory, but it is not liberalization in the traditional sense, where countries agree to rein in their protectionist impulses. The failure of trade talks at the multilateral level has led many governments to pursue regional or plurilateral initiatives, even though such approaches have fundamental flaws in economic and political terms.