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Mexico weighs U.S. meat product sanctions after WTO ruling

21/05/2015

Mexico said on Thursday it would decide within about 15 days what sanctions to impose on U.S. meat products if the U.S. Congress does not comply with a World Trade Organization ruling on labeling.

Vietnamese exporters need to plan for FTA lawsuit liability

20/05/2015

HCM CITY (VNS) — New free trade agreements (FTA) will help Vietnamese companies improve access to markets and diminish costs, but they will also require strategies and policies to minimise the probability of trade lawsuits, speakers said at a seminar on global trade late last week in HCM City.

U.S. meat labelling law could be repealed after WTO ruling

20/05/2015

A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to get rid of labels on packages of meat that say where the animals were born, raised and slaughtered.

China Scraps Rare Earths Export Quota After WTO Ruling

20/05/2015

China on Wednesday told the World Trade Organization that it had scrapped a quota system limiting exports of rare earth minerals after complaints by the US, EU and Japan.

Pakistan plans anti-dumping duty on Bangladesh textile chemical

19/05/2015

National Tariff Commission of Pakistan has initiated proceedings to impose anti-dumping duty on import of hydrogen peroxide from Bangladesh, commerce ministry officials said.

China Levies Measures on Japanese, U.S. Fiber Preforms

19/05/2015

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce made a preliminary ruling on Monday that Japanese and U.S. companies are dumping optical fiber preforms and will impose provisional anti-dumping measures.

Anti-Dumping Action Against Chinese Coil Could Raise Short-Term Steel Prices

19/05/2015

As coil import arrivals drop off (the arbitrage for speculative tonnage disappeared in 2015, but it takes 3-4 months for physical arrivals to catch up), we expect that metal service centers will be back in the purchasing game over the next quarter.

Vietnam enterprises must be ready for trade barriers abroad, self-defense at home: experts

18/05/2015

Vietnamese firms must be ready to face more trade remedies at home and abroad as the Southeast Asian country is integrating further into the world’s economy, with numerous trade deals with foreign trade partners already signed or about to be clinched, foreign and local experts said at a recent workshop in Ho Chi Minh City.