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Southern Africa: Thick Borders, Thin Trade

14/08/2012

Poverty in Sub- Saharan Africa is a man-made phenomenon driven by internal warped policies and international trade systems. The continent cannot purport to seek to grow while it blocks the movement of goods and services through tariff regimes at the same time

European chamber urges greater trade liberalization in Taiwan

14/08/2012

Taipei, Aug. 9 (CNA) Taiwan should lower its barriers to trade with European companies operating in China, the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT) said Thursday as Taiwan and China concluded an investment protection agreement.

Pakisan: ‘Local industry deprived of liberalised trade benefits’

09/08/2012

LAHORE: The local industry has been deprived of the benefits of liberalised trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) regime due to clearance of numerous under-invoiced products that has exposed the administrative flaws and institutional weaknesses of regulators, experts said on Tuesday.

Mexico postpones chicken-leg import duties

09/08/2012

MEXICO CITY--The Mexican government said it is postponing the imposition of antidumping duties on imports of chicken parts from the U.S. because the recent outbreak of bird flu in the Mexican state of Jalisco has distorted prices in the domestic market.

Ukraine: Government is looking for new markets for metallurgy and chemical products

09/08/2012

Ukraine asks the US to cancel anti-dumping duties for Ukrainian metallurgy and chemical products. Reuters reports that this request was expressed by First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Valerii Khoroshkovsky at the meeting with the US Trade Representative Ron Kirk.

US antidumping duties upheld against Russian magnesium giant

09/08/2012

MOSCOW, August 6 - RAPSI, Ingrid Burke. The US Court of International Trade (trade court) improperly impinged upon the right of the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to apply its own antidumping review procedures, the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (appellate court) held last week. In so holding, the appellate court established that the DOC was justified in imposing a 15.77% antidumping duty on Russian titanium and magnesium giant PSC VSMPO-Avisma Corporation (Avisma), according to the text of the appellate decision.

India: Safeguard duty on carbon black imports proposed

09/08/2012

The Director-General (Safeguards) has recommended imposition of specific safeguard duty on carbon black imports into the country.

EU to Put Punitive Duties on Chinese Bikes & Tiles

09/08/2012

Chinese diplomats said on August 1 that the EU will soon set up trade barriers to bikes and ceramic tiles from China as its latest protection for EU manufacturers.