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Vietnamese garment industry should look inward: analysts

03/11/2008

Vietnamese apparel businesses should focus more on their home market since exports, now their staple, may shrink because of the global crisis, experts have said.

ITC to monitor textile and apparel imports from China

03/11/2008

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will monitor certain textile and apparel imports from China at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Ways and Means, the agency announced today.

International trade in culture goods

03/11/2008

Ottawa: Canada's exports of culture goods, such as printed works, declined for a fourth consecutive year in 2007.

US wins WTO appeal in India wine, spirits case

31/10/2008

GENEVA: The United States won an appeal on Thursday at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in a dispute over extra duties on Indian imports of wines and spirits. The US victory is largely moral as India has already lifted most of the additional charges.

Lamy: The stabilizing influence of a rules-based trading system

31/10/2008

Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at Stanford University on 27 October 2008, said the multilateral trading system has not only opened world commerce “but just as important it has brought transparency and predictability to international trade”. He said “the debate is no longer about the merits of global regulation, it is about putting in place the right sort of global regulation for the problems of today”.

Australia - findings of review publishing on circular hollow sections

31/10/2008

The Australian Customs Service (Customs) has completed its review of the anti-dumping measures applying to exports of certain hot dip galvanised, welded, circular hollow sections (HDG CHS) exported to Australia from Thailand. The review commenced on 28 April 2008.

Tukey - safeguard impsoed on cotton yarn

28/10/2008

Turkish Council of Ministers, through the Decision for the Application of a Safeguard Measure in the Importation of Certain Cotton Yarn published in the Official Gazette no. 27031 dated 21st of September 2008, gave the final decision for the imposition of an additional financial duty applicable for a period of three years to the imports of cotton yarn (other than sewing thread), containing 85% or more by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale (HS code 5205).

Cashew SMEs in dire straits, most have closed down

28/10/2008

A worker piles up husked cashew nuts at a factory in southern Binh Phuoc Province. An acute shortage of cashew nuts and high production costs have forced a huge majority of small- and medium-sized cashew processing and exporting firms to close down, an industry official said.