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Asian shoe imports benefit EU consumers and producers

12/05/2008

A handful of European shoemakers are soon likely to request an extension of EU anti-dumping duties on leather footwear from Vietnam and China. But contrary to what your article may lead people into thinking (‘Shoemakers fight cheap imports', 24-29 April), these producers do not speak in the interest of the majority of the European footwear industry, let alone European consumers.

US antidumping duties: How can firms secure separate rates?

12/05/2008

Thanh Nien continues a bimonthly column in which eminent jurists analyze various aspects of business and investment laws. The column appears on the second and fourth Fridays of the month.

Lack of co-operation with EU led to shoe levy

12/05/2008

The failure of shoe manufactures in the mainland and Macau to clarify their import and export activities led to the EU imposing anti-dumping measures on the city, the union's journal states.

U.S. Administration Will Not Investigate Apparel Imports from Vietnam

12/05/2008

The United States will not impose anti-dumping duties on apparel imports from Vietnam in the short term, the U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced this week. Unit prices of Vietnamese apparel monitored by the U.S. administration were not reduced, it said.

WISCO gets zero tax status for HR export to Indonesia

12/05/2008

WISCO recently have received the final judgment from Indonesian anti dumping Committee, under which WISCO gets the zero tax rate for hot rolled coil exporting to Indonesian.

Revised text needed for Doha Round success: India

12/05/2008

India's chief trade negotiator Rahul Khullar yesterday warned that the much-planned ministerial meeting, which the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy wants to convene soon, can succeed only if there was a revised Doha Rules text reflecting the concerns of all the members and an immediate resolution of "TRIPS-CBD issue".

Macao: No Longer Dumping Escape Route

12/05/2008

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The latest measure of the European Union must prevent the use of Macao as an escape route for anti-dumping duties. It is reported that the European Union has decided to include Macao in the anti-dumping duties on leather footwear that it has imposed on China and Vietnam.

US ITC to conduct sunset review on silicon metal from Russia

12/05/2008

The US International Trade Commission voted to expedite its five year sunset review concerning the antidumping duty order on imports of silicon metal from Russia.