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EU and China stumble towards solar trade war

22/02/2013

BRUSSELS/BEIJING, Feb 21 (Reuters) - China's leadership transition is complicating talks to resolve a multi-billion-dollar dispute with the European Union over solar panels, pushing both sides closer to placing punitive tariffs on each other’s exports and risking a trade war.

Anti-dumping Duty on Chinese Mandarins

22/02/2013

The EU Council adopted, on 19 February, a regulation re-imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas), wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, originating in China.

Senators urge government to level the playing field for U.S. catfish farmers

22/02/2013

U.S. Senators from Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have urged the Obama administration to enforce U.S. trade laws and protect American catfish growers from an increasing flood of low-cost Asian imports.

Firms Settle With U.S. Over Illegal Chinese Honey

22/02/2013

Federal prosecutors said that two of the nations largest honey processors bought illegal Chinese imports of the sweetener, avoiding tens of millions of dollars in antidumping duties.

China says U.S. measures on shrimps against WTO rules

22/02/2013

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday that measures taken by the United States over warm water shrimps from China are against World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

India: Thailand gold may hit anti-dumping wall

21/02/2013

NEW DELHI: The government is considering imposing anti-dumping measures, usually associated with low-value commodities, on import of gold jewellery from Thailand as part of several remedial options being considered to battle a problem that has been giving policymakers a headache in recent months.

U.S. ethanol groups decry EU tariff as 'blatant protectionism'

21/02/2013

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Two biofuels trade groups on Tuesday lambasted a European Union decision to impose an anti-dumping duty on U.S.-made ethanol as a protectionist move and said they would challenge the tariff "in every manner possible."