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S. Korea to sign free trade deal with Canada

22/09/2014

OTTAWA, Sept. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will sign a free trade deal with Canada next week, President Park Geun-hye said Saturday, as she arrived in Ottawa for a three-day state visit on a trip that will also take her to New York for the U.N. General Assembly.

S.Korea: Will rice tariff rate of 513% pass WTO vetting?

22/09/2014

Farmers still concerned that opening of the rice market will endanger their livelihoods

Philippines To Introduce Excise Tax Stamps On Tobacco

22/09/2014

The Philippines' Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has issued Revenue Regulation No. 7-2014, which requires the placing of its stamps on all imported and locally manufactured cigarettes to demonstrate that excise tax has been paid.

VN seafood nets buyers in Moscow

22/09/2014

MOSCOW (VNS) — Vietnamese seafood products have attracted Russian customers at an international seafood exhibition in Moscow because of high demand, especially for tra fish products.

U.S. raises Taiwan pork issues at WTO meeting

22/09/2014

Washington, Sept. 17 (CNA) The United States is concerned about Taiwan's treatment of pork imports containing the leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine despite Taiwan's recent progress in seeking trade liberalization, according to a top U.S. trade official at a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Switzerland.

S.Korea sets rice import tariff at 513 pct from 2015

22/09/2014

SEOUL, Sept 18 (Reuters) - South Korea has set a rice import tariff at 513 percent from next year as it looks to protect farmers after scrapping a cap on politically sensitive imports of the grain in line with international trade commitments.

Russia's Putin says sanctions violate principles of WTO

22/09/2014

(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Western sanctions against Russia violated the principles of the World Trade Organization and the main way to combat them was to develop the domestic market.

Vietnam’s anti dumping duty not to affect Taiwan’s steelmakers

22/09/2014

Market participants in Taiwan said that recent imposition of anti dumping duty on Taiwan’s stainless steel cold rolled steel production in Vietnam will not affect the business of local steelmakers.