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US ends catfish inspection programme

03/06/2016

The US Senate has supported scrapping of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s catfish inspection programme because critics argued that the programme was wasteful and unnecessary.

U.S. seeks WTO dispute panel in chicken dispute with China

03/06/2016

The Obama administration on Friday asked the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel to rule on U.S. claims that China is unfairly continuing anti-dumping duties on U.S. broiler chicken products.

US to Impose Antidumping Duties on S. Korean Corrosion-resistant Steel

02/06/2016

The United States has decided to impose antidumping duties of up to 48 percent on imports of corrosion-resistant steel from South Korea and up to 451 percent on such imports from China.

US Senate votes to end catfish inspection programme

02/06/2016

The vote took place on May 25, with bill supporters, including Republican Sen. John McCain, arguing that the USDA programme is wasteful, duplicative and unnecessary.

U.S. levies hefty duties on Chinese corrosion-resistant steel

02/06/2016

Corrosion-resistant steel from China will face final U.S. anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties of up to 450 percent under the U.S. Commerce Department's latest clampdown on a glut of steel imports, the agency said on Wednesday.

G-7 Agrees to Tackle China Dumping After EU Chiefs Warn on Steel

02/06/2016

Group of Seven leaders agreed to work together to tackle oversupply in the Chinese economy, but didn’t go as far as calling out the country by name for steel dumping.

A WTO challenge to China’s internet censorship is long overdue

02/06/2016

For the first time this year, the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) ‘National Trade Estimate Report’ took note of China’s Great Firewall.

WTO sees Brexit costing UK billions in trade tariffs

01/06/2016

Leaving the European Union would cost British consumers 9 billion pounds ($13.2 billion) in annual additional import tariffs, World Trade Organization chief Roberto Azevedo said in an interview published by the Financial Times on Wednesday.