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Can Vietnam ride in as door to EU bicycle market opens a crack?

30/08/2010

The European Commission lifted anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese bicycles in July while maintaining them on Chinese products, giving Vietnamese exporters a fresh opportunity to grab a share of the European market.

U.S. lays out plan to strengthen anti-dumping regime

30/08/2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday announced plans to toughen rules against what it sees as unfair foreign trade practices, proposing a number of changes likely to irk China, its biggest import supplier.

Settlement payments an issue in antidumping case

30/08/2010

WASHINGTON — Legal counsel representing Chinese and U.S. furniture producers have begun a war of words on what may become the latest contentious issue in the ongoing sunset review of the wood bedroom furniture antidumping case.

Sacu puts out unfair trade practices tender

30/08/2010

The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) has put out a request for tenders for a study to investigate the situation in the Sacu region regarding unfair trade practices.

Ministry of Commerce adjusts anti-dumping tariffs to Japan-imported chlorobutadiene rubber

30/08/2010

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced Wednesday a decision to adjust the anti-dumping tariffs to chlorobutadiene rubber produced in Japan which current rates range from 2 percent to 151 percent. The new tariffs will be within the range of 9.9 to 43.9 percent.

Imported Seafood May Be Riskier Than Gulf Fare

30/08/2010

(Aug. 26) -- Consumers are caught in the middle as food safety experts ponder the potential risks from shrimp, crab and fish from the Gulf of Mexico while mostly ignoring the frightening evidence of years of foreign seafood arriving at U.S. ports tainted with drugs, chemicals and bacteria.

U.S. revokes oldest antidumping duty

27/08/2010

TOKYO, Aug. 25, 2010 (Kyodo News International) -- The United States has revoked a 36-year-old antidumping duty on a synthetic rubber from Japan, regarded as the oldest of such existing duties in the world, the Japanese trade ministry said Wednesday.

India allows telecom imports after 8-month ban

27/08/2010

MUMBAI, India — India has relaxed an eight-month ban on imports of telecommunication equipment, approving orders from China's ZTE and Huawei and Finland's Nokia Siemens Networks, executives said Wednesday, as security fears fade before an urgent need to roll out third-generation wireless infrastructure.