Itar Tass reported that the US International Trade Commission spoke against the lifting of anti-dumping restrictions on the import of hot rolled flat rolled carbon quality steel products from Russia.
The Duty Free Import Authorization (DFIA) scheme has been a messy and controversial scheme since its introduction. Now, domestic producers of certain goods have represented that anti-dumping duty on the goods akin to what they produce is being avoided through the DFIA scheme.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), the official opposition party, believes the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade would be hugely beneficial to all countries within the proposed African Grand Free Trade Area.
Thailand will send a letter to the Office of the US Trade Representative protesting against new regulations that will put a higher financial burden on exporters, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Turkish Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade, through Communiqué no. 2011/9 published on the 2nd of June 2011, initiated an expiry review on anti-dumping duties on pre-finished engineered laminated flooring - floating or not – (4418.72) originating from P.R.China and Indonesia.
On June 8, 2011, Mexico's official newspaper released a notice of Mexico's Ministry of Economic Affairs on launching anti-dumping sunset review on China-made plastic pencil sharpeners.
Vietnamese government measures that are likely to make it more complicated to import alcohol, cosmetics, mobile phones and autos do not violate World Trade Organisation rules and are aimed at stopping a flood of fakes, a senior official said.