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EU Extends Punitive Tariffs To Transshipped Chinese Solar Panels

18/02/2016

Bottom line: The EU’s extension of punitive tariffs to China-made solar panels transshipped through shell factories in Malaysia and Taiwan could kill a recent wave of offshore factory construction by Chinese manufacturers.

U.S. officials see aerospace boost from TPP trade deal

17/02/2016

Feb 15 U.S. government and industry officials said on Monday they expected the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal signed by 12 countries earlier this month to bolster trade in aviation products once it was enacted

China's hackles raised by EU steel dumping investigation

17/02/2016

Feb 14 China's commerce ministry has expressed its concern over European Union's anti-dumping investigations into Chinese steel products and said that trade frictions should be solved through dialogue.

EU imposes anti-dumping tariffs on Russian and Chinese steel makers

16/02/2016

Russian and Chinese makers of non-stainless steel face EU tariffs as high as 26.2 percent after it found that imports from the two nations unfairly undercut producers in Europe, such as ArcelorMittal and ThyssenKrupp AG.

Vietnamese firms must learn trade rules

16/02/2016

Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, Director of the WTO Centre under the VCCI, spoke to the press on the need to use protectionism in international trade.

Australia slaps anti-dumping duties on canned Italian tomatoes

16/02/2016

Feb 11 Australia has imposed anti-dumping duties on two brands of Italian tinned tomatoes, after finding they were unfairly subsidised by European Union payments to growers, the government's anti-dumping commission said on Thursday.

The WTO’s decision to end agricultural export subsidies is good news for farmers and consumers

16/02/2016

When I started to work in development cooperation in the late 1980s, one-third of EU agricultural subsidies—about 10 billion euros annually (equivalent to about 17 billion euros today)—were spent on export subsidies.

Is Free Trade Really Free? Why Protectionism Is Alive and Well

16/02/2016

Recently, it was reported that the three largest U.S. airlines — American, United, and Delta — are protesting three major Persian Gulf-based airlines’ right to fly in the U.S. market. The American carriers claim that the Gulf carriers (Qatar Airways, Emirates, and Etihad) have received $42 billion in subsidies from their governments over the past several years, amounting to an unfair trade advantage that enables them to offer better and lower-cost service.