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Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from India: Notice of Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Countervailing
06/01/2009
Dec 30, 2008 (FIND, Inc. via COMTEX) -- IPITF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on certain hot- rolled carbon steel flat products from India for the period January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2007, the period of review (POR). These preliminary results cover one company Essar Steel Ltd. (Essar). For the information on the net subsidy rate for the reviewed company, see the "Preliminary Results of Review" section.
Unfolding of crisis leads to more protectionist measures - KOTRA
02/01/2009
Amid the economic meltdown and slowdown in demand, countries, far and wide are putting in to place tariff barriers to protect their domestic industries. This factor is contributing more to the slowdown in exports than anything else. This bare fact has been recognized by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) in a report.
Protectionism on the Surge
02/01/2009
With the textile export to EU growing at a pace faster than anticipated, the joint efforts to slow down Chinese shipment to this market in a predetermined arrangement known as "bi lateral check" seem to be abortive, more and more producers there seem to grow out of their patience with EU's past deal with China. A new wave of trade protectionism is coming on the surge…
USW Urges U.S. to Reject Latest Doha Paper for WTO Rules
02/01/2009
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers (USW), today issued a statement and release of a letter calling on the Bush administration's top negotiators in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to again reject the latest draft rules that would weaken workers' defense against predatory trade practices by undermining U.S. trade laws on illegal dumping and subsidies.
The future of the WTO Doha Round
02/01/2009
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