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US Trade Rep Vows Strict Enforcement of Trade Rules
26/07/2009
Washington is about to get tougher on countries that violate trade agreements, Ron Kirk, the Obama administration’s top trade official, said in a major policy speech last week. Speaking to a crowd gathered in a steel plant in the industrial city of Pittsburgh on 16 July, Kirk announced several new enforcement initiatives and pledged to “to identify and solve problems at the source.”
U.S. Commerce Department Levies Duties on Imports of Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks From China
26/07/2009
WASHINGTON, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American producers of kitchen appliance shelving and racks praised today's final decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to levy antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of kitchen appliance shelving and racks from China. Exporter-specific, combined antidumping and countervailing rates ranged from 57 percent to 245 percent.
Trade safeguards pose risk
26/07/2009
Asia likely to lead trade recovery, says WTO - Summary
26/07/2009
Singapore/Geneva - Asia is starting to see a rebound in trade and might lead the world in its recovery from plunging volumes of commerce said Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, on Wednesday. The WTO, in its annual report on world trade, reaffirmed that the organization expects trade to drop 10 per cent this year.
