Members of South Africa’s Food and Allied Workers Union staged a march on Wednesday and asked the country’s Trade and Industry Ministry to impose tariffs on chicken imports from the European Union and Brazil.
An EU decision to keep import taxes on Chinese crockery and cookware will leave hard-pressed customers paying more without bringing any benefits to UK manufacturers, said the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
EU states agreed to impose duties on imports of Chinese plates and other table and kitchenware on Thursday (4 April) after the bloc's executive body said the cheap Asian products were crowding out local goods, according to officials.
The European Commission has extended its 19% antidumping duty on imports of silicon metal originating in China to imports of silicon consigned from Taiwan, whether declared as originating in Taiwan or not, the EC said Friday.
The Animal, Plant, and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency of South Korea has announced that it will run an Ethoxyquin check on frozen shrimps imported from Vietnam in 2013, with permissible limit being 0.01 milligrams per kilogram.