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Australia questions India’s mandatory sugar export quota

05/10/2015

Australia has questioned India’s decision to make it mandatory for sugar millers to export 5 million tonnes during the 2015-16 sugar season (October-September). “Australia has (at a WTO meet) indicated that if India intends to carry out the mandated exports at a subsidised price, it has the potential to distort world trade in the commodity,” an official who attended a recent meeting of the WTO’s committee on agriculture, told BusinessLine.

U.S. submits compromise on anti-tobacco laws under Pacific trade deal

05/10/2015

Governments will be allowed to block tobacco companies from suing over anti-smoking measures under a U.S. proposal being considered by Pacific trading partners as part of a free trade deal involving a dozen countries.

Federal government to investigate hot-rolled dumping

05/10/2015

A flood of $1.9 billion in imports from seven foreign countries is damaging the steel industry, the U.S. International Trade Commission found.

WTO Panel To Rule In US-Indonesia Anti-Dumping Dispute

05/10/2015

The World Trade Organization (WTO) announced on September 28, 2015, that it has established a panel to mediate in an anti-dumping dispute between Indonesia and the United States.

Ukraine revokes import duties on vehicles

05/10/2015

Ukraine on Wednesday lifted an emergency import duty on cars which was imposed in 2013 to protect local producers, the state commission on foreign trade said.

EU Steel Lobby Warns China of Complaint on Hot-Rolled Coil

05/10/2015

The European Union steel industry sounded a fresh alarm about low-priced imports of hot-rolled coil from China, signaling an imminent push for EU tariffs on Chinese producers.

China imposes anti-dumping duty on optical fiber preform from Japan and U.S

05/10/2015

China has imposed anti-dumping duty on optical fiber preform imported from Japan and the United States, China's commerce ministry said on Wednesday.

Vietnamese steel products face anti-dumping investigations

24/09/2015

The Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has started an anti-dumping investigation on Vietnamese exports of alloy and non-alloy cold-rolled steel coils with the thickness of 0.2-2.6 mm and width of 700-1,300 mm.