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Anti-dumping investigation provides more armour to steel products cos
04/12/2008
NEW DELHI: The domestic steel industry struggling against falling international prices and cheap imports from China is all set to get more help from the government. The Centre, which already imposed import restrictions on a number of steel products, has now initiated anti-dumping investigations on imports of a wide range of stainless steel and steel items from countries including China, Japan, South Korea, the US and the EU.
The Threat of Protectionism
04/12/2008
China has canceled its annual summit with the EU to protest the plans of some European leaders to meet the Dalai Lama. This is bad news at a time when EU-China relations should be moving forward, not backward. The nature of this relationship matters not only for Europe and China, but for the international syggstem as a whole.
How to Sell Anti-Protectionism
04/12/2008
STOCKHOLM - The looming global recession has brought government intervention to save failing companies to the forefront of economic policy. In a speech just prior to the recent G-20 summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned President-elect Barack Obama against bailing out America's struggling Big Three automakers, arguing that global competition has made their decline irreversible. A bailout, then, would simply delay the inevitable at a huge cost to taxpayers.
VN springs to face anti-dumping tax
04/12/2008
HA NOI — The US International Trade Commission (ITC) last week announced its verdict in an anti-dumping suit against Vietnamese businesses for dumping innersprings, saying that the products were sold at less than production costs, said the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Competition Management Department. Inner-springs are the core component of inner-spring mattresses.
Dumping scanner on hot-rolled coil
04/12/2008
China Increases Export Subsidies for Bikes
04/12/2008
BEIJING, China – Instead of lowering its export subsidy rate for bicycles which was still expected at the beginning of 2008, the Chinese government is raising it. In order to fight the global economic recession and to stimulate export the subsidy rate will rise from the current 9% to between 11 and 14%.
China courting EU to avoid anti-dumping duty
04/12/2008
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