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TPP will push Japanese farmers to grow cheaper rice in bid to boost exports

11/04/2016

The nation’s farmers are set to produce less expensive rice than existing brands to boost exports, following the signing of a Pacific free trade deal that will expose them to fierce foreign competition, farming sources said Sunday.

The not-so-slow-motion steel trade war

11/04/2016

As a symbol of the year thus far and a taste of things to come you could not do much better than China’s imposition of tariffs on European and some Asian steel.

Japan to relax criteria for anti-dumping duty applications

08/04/2016

TOKYO -- The Japanese government intends to loosen its rules on anti-dumping duties to better protect industries such as steel and chemicals, which are susceptible to floods of cheap imports from China and elsewhere.

Brief: Brazil takes Indonesia, Thailand to WTO over beef and sugar

08/04/2016

Brazil has launched two complaints at the World Trade Organization, to challenge Indonesia over its restrictions on Brazilian beef and Thailand over support given to its sugar sector, the WTO said on Tuesday.

To examine TPP’s non-trade measures

08/04/2016

KUALA LUMPUR: Freeing up trade among member countries is only a minor aspect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, said economist Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram, urging Malaysians to also examine the non-trade measures (NTMs) entailed in the deal.

The role of non-tariff measures in achieving aec blueprint 2025

08/04/2016

The recent establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 was a landmark achievement in the ASEAN region’s economic integration agenda. Notably, the AEC is meant to facilitate the free flow of goods, services, and investments, as well as the freer flow of labor and capital.

South Africa considering emergency steel tariffs - WTO

08/04/2016

South Africa is considering imposing emergency tariffs on some iron and steel imports, it said in a filing to the World Trade Organization published on Monday.

Pak-Iran pact to remove non-tariff barriers in trade

07/04/2016

LAHORE – Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) Chairman Irfan Iqbal Sheikh said that the pact between Pakistan and Iran would remove non-tariff barriers in bilateral trade and prepare ground for a free trade agreement (FTA).