China's Commerce Ministry on Wednesday said it stopped imposing anti-dumping tariffs on imports of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from the United States, South Korea, Japan and China's Taiwan from September 29.
After applying temporary trade remedies for three months, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has recently decided to apply official anti-dumping duties on color-coated steel roofing sheet products from China and South Korea.
Vietnamese logistics companies need to improve their competitiveness to stay afloat when the EU-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement comes into effect, experts have said.
Việt Nam has taken various measures to handle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing since it received a “yellow card” warning from the European Commission (EC) in October 2017.
US and Chinese officials are close to finalising some parts of a trade agreement after high-level telephone discussions on Friday, the US Trade Representative’s office and China’s Commerce Ministry said, with talks to continue.
United States President Donald Trump has suspended US$1.3 billion in trade preferences for Thailand because of its failure “to adequately provide internationally-recognised worker rights”, such as protection for freedom of association and collective bargaining.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened an inquiry into whether companies are circumventing anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders on steel rebar from Mexico by bending the product "at one or both ends."