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Russia, EU Wage Phony War Over Sanctions at WTO

26/08/2014

As the war of sanctions and trade bans between Russia and the West smolders, parties on both sides have brandished the World Trade Organization as the final judge of the other's offenses, threatening to transform their deliberately temporary sanctions into a drawn out and acrid court process.

India braces for anti-dumping duty decision

26/08/2014

India’s Ministry of Finance is to announce a final decision on anti-dumping duties for solar imports (ADD) on Friday.

Healthcare affordability: The US-led TPP comes with strings attached for Vietnam

26/08/2014

While Vietnam waits to become marked on the global map as an important trade destination when it joins the US led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), there is a growing outcry on the implications of the free trade agreement.

China stops anti-dumping duties on phthalic anhydride

26/08/2014

BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Thursday it would stop imposing anti-dumping duties on phthalic anhydride imported from the Republic of Korea, Japan and India as of Aug. 30.

China against Malaysia-Taiwan FTA

26/08/2014

PETALING JAYA: Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang says China is against any move by Malaysia to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan.

Bright future for Vietnam, Africa raw cotton trade

26/08/2014

(VOV) -The Vietnamese textile and garment sector, with its rapid and sustainable growth over recent years, remains overly dependent on foreign raw materials, paying inordinately higher prices than necessary.

War Of The FTAs

26/08/2014

This is what happened with WTO. A club of rich countries created WTO to suit their interests while largely ignoring the pleas of the poor countries. While the process started many decades ago, WTO’s efforts to create harmonised trade rules were questioned by emerging economies. Growing rapidly with a hungry consuming class, the emerging economies realised how unfair some of the WTO rules were.

U.S. lowers anti-dumping tariffs on Taiwanese solar cells, modules

26/08/2014

Citing a “ministerial error”, the U.S. Department of Commerce has cut in half duty levels for solar products made in Taiwan by Motech, and has reduced tariff levels for most other Taiwanese solar PV makers as well.