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U.S. OKs final duties on China steel line pipe

26/04/2009

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. government gave final approval on Thursday to anti-dumping duties ranging from 74 to 101 percent on welded steel line pipe from China that it said was being sold at unfairly low prices.

Trade protectionism intensifying post G20 Summit - Eurofer

24/04/2009

Platts reported that European steelmakers' lobby Eurofer cited a newly expanded AD investigation by India against hot-rolled flat steel imports as a sign that trade protectionism is intensifying, despite commitments made at the last G-20 summit to refrain from such actions.

AWU calling for tough new anti-dumping regs

24/04/2009

The AWU is calling on Labor MPs, Senators and Labor Premiers to get actively behind the AWU New Steel Plan and has put a priority on stopping steel being dumped on the Australian market, at unfair prices.

Chinese goods not banned, says Kebs

24/04/2009

China is free to sell cheap products in the country as long as they meet local standards, the Kenya Bureau of Standards said yesterday.

China's Evolved Economy

24/04/2009

Your editorial "The Vietnam Tariff?" (April 9) mistakenly states that the U.S. Commerce Department has designated China a market economy for the purposes of imposing countervailing duties (CVD) in trade cases. As an international trade attorney, I have worked on a sizeable portion of the recent CVD cases against Chinese companies.

China Export Tax Policy Creating Rebar Flood in South Korea

24/04/2009

Back in my days at Andersen, we used to have a saying, “you get the behavior you incent to get.” In other words, if a plant manager’s bonus correlates to productivity, cost reduction may go on the back burner, unless it enhances productivity. Perhaps one of the most famous cases of mis-aligned incentives involved Ross Perot. As a young IBM sales superstar, he had achieved his annual sales target by the end of the first quarter. He had asked his boss if he sold more, would he receive more pay. The answer? No. So he started EDS. With sales of $22b+ annually, you can say “that taught IBM a lesson.”

Antidumping duty results delayed until Aug. 10

24/04/2009

Covers 2007 shipments of Chinese wood bedroom furniture

China's Coming Of Age In The WTO War

24/04/2009

In a massive cultural shift, China is getting more aggressive about launching WTO disputes. Amid the global economic slump, the U.S. may find itself getting dragged to the WTO's court more often.