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Imported Seafood May Be Riskier Than Gulf Fare

30/08/2010

(Aug. 26) -- Consumers are caught in the middle as food safety experts ponder the potential risks from shrimp, crab and fish from the Gulf of Mexico while mostly ignoring the frightening evidence of years of foreign seafood arriving at U.S. ports tainted with drugs, chemicals and bacteria.

U.S. revokes oldest antidumping duty

27/08/2010

TOKYO, Aug. 25, 2010 (Kyodo News International) -- The United States has revoked a 36-year-old antidumping duty on a synthetic rubber from Japan, regarded as the oldest of such existing duties in the world, the Japanese trade ministry said Wednesday.

India allows telecom imports after 8-month ban

27/08/2010

MUMBAI, India — India has relaxed an eight-month ban on imports of telecommunication equipment, approving orders from China's ZTE and Huawei and Finland's Nokia Siemens Networks, executives said Wednesday, as security fears fade before an urgent need to roll out third-generation wireless infrastructure.

EU states may block Chinese fibreglass tax-sources

27/08/2010

BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Several European Union member states will try to pressure the European Commission on Thursday to scrap plans for a new tax next month on Chinese fibreglass used in the clean technology sector, EU diplomats told Reuters.

Short relief for plywood exporters

27/08/2010

IT was a temporary relief for plywood exporters when South Korea decided to defer its anti-dumping duties on the products early this month thus reversing its earlier decision to slap punitive duties ranging from 5.11% to 33.81% on local plywood imports in July.

DOC Finds Chinese Electric Blankets Were Dumped On US Market

27/08/2010

The U.S. Department of Commerce's (DOC's) International Trade Administration has issued an anti-dumping order on certain Chinese electric blankets that it says were dumped on the U.S. market at less than their true value. The order states that a U.S. industry was "materially injured by" the imports.

Viet Nam sues US over duties

27/08/2010

GENEVA — Viet Nam submitted documents to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva on Friday, challenging the US imposition of anti-dumping duties on frozen shrimp imported from Viet Nam.

Textile minister urges duty free access to int'l markets

27/08/2010

MULTAN: Federal Textile Minister Rana Farooq Saeed urged international community to give Pakistani products a duty-free access for next ten years if it was sincere to see Pakistan emerging as a self reliant country capable of defeating terrorism and overcoming disasters like current floods.