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India steel ministry may appeal to Modi over anti-dumping rules

13/04/2016

India's steel ministry is considering appealing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to back a proposal to toughen up anti-dumping rules to tackle a flood of cheap imports threatening its steel industry, a government source said.

WTO notifies EU with its ruling on Russia's EU pork ban

13/04/2016

BRUSSELS, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) Thursday notified the European Commission with its ruling on Russia's EU pork trade ban, a source close to the case said.

China steel mills post losses of $1.8 billion for Jan-Feb: CISA

12/04/2016

China's major steel mills have made combined losses of 11.4 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) for the first two months of this year as chronic oversupply weighed on the sector, an official with the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) said on Thursday.

Threatened US trade action targeting global imports could significantly disrupt the US steel market

12/04/2016

By many accounts, the US steel industry is in a significant downturn, which by some measures is nearly as bad as that suffered during the last recession. In response to this downturn, the US steel industry has filed a series of antidumping and countervailing duty trade cases against several steel products, including hot-rolled coils, cold-rolled coils and corrosion-resistant steel. The preliminary phase of each of these cases has been completed and additional duties have been imposed. However, the US industry has expressed disappointment with the duty levels and claims they are too low to remedy the injury caused by the unfair trade imports.

Steel dumping claims ‘unfair’

12/04/2016

Proposing a probe into alleged steel dumping of products from China "is not fair", as steel production in India does not meet demand there and protectionism is not a solution, a Chinese national consulting firm said on Wednesday.

India serves steel products anti-dumping notice on China, others

11/04/2016

A government body has issued notices to China, Japan and South Korea proposing to initiate a probe on the 'dumping' of some steel products into India, a source said.

Imports of cheap crude palm stifle Uganda’s oilseed farming

11/04/2016

The Kazimingi area of Jinja, once designated as Uganda’s industrial hub, is today a shell of rusty disused oil mills and crumbling buildings – testimony to a bygone era, when smallholder farmers prospered by growing cotton and other oil seeds to feed the mills.

Antidumping duties slow China tire exports

11/04/2016

China’s tire exports in 2015 fell 4 percent in volume and 16 percent in value—declines the China Rubber Industry Association attributed primarily to the antidumping duties imposed by the U.S.