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Israel lifts customs duties on steel imports

01/07/2008

Israel has eliminated import duties on steel products to stabilize market price and meet rising demand. Steel prices have been surging by 60% since early 2008 and such measure could save it ILS 5 billion.

Dubai Chamber organizes awareness seminar on anti-dumping in the GCC

01/07/2008

Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry is hosting a two-day seminar/workshop on the Role of Technical Secretariat for Anti-Dumping in Serving in the GCC Industry, held at its premises on June 29 and 30.

Chinese radials giving Indian players tough time

01/07/2008

The Dragon is biting the Indian radial truck and bus tyre manufacturers hard. While demand of radial tyres for commercial vehicles is shooting up and domestic players are unable to match the supply, Chinese truck/bus radials are fast gaining a foothold on the Indian roads.

FESI urges EU to reconsider decision on footwear imports from Vietnam

01/07/2008

FESI – the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry is deeply concerned by the EU’s decision to abolish GSP preferences for Vietnamese footwear exports.

GSP+ loss will cost public as well as businesses

27/06/2008

Sri Lankan industries, outside the garments sector, say the loss of the European Union’s GSP+ duty free export scheme will dearly cost the public as well as businesses. As it is, public funds have already been invested to build export capacity to use the GSP+. The industries using the scheme have also increased, linking the trade scheme with incomes and jobs of thousands.

Italian shoemakers want tariff on Vietnamese rivals extended

27/06/2008

Italian shoe producers are pushing for the European Commission (EC) to renew anti-dumping tariffs on non-athletic leather shoes imported to Europe from Vietnam, a Vietnamese trade official said.

EC’s decision to stop GSP being applied to VN leather shoes ‘unfair’

27/06/2008

Industry and Trade Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Bien spoke with the press about the European Commission’s decision to exclude Vietnamese leather shoe exports to the EU from the list of products eligible for the Generalised System of Preferences.

US steel industry wins trade case against China

27/06/2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. steel pipe manufacturers, who have been battling a surge in imports from China, won a major victory Friday when the International Trade Commission cleared the way for the imposition of stiff penalty tariffs for the next five years.