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CoA meet to mull future course on farm issues

30/09/2008

NEW DELHI: Following consultations with key members of the World Trade Organisation including India, Brazil, the EU and the US on farm issues to be reactivated at the multilateral forum earlier this week, the committee of agriculture (CoA) chairman Crawford Falconer has called a meeting of the last ditch effort next week on how to organise work in the coming weeks.

Chinese steel export boom to continue on delayed rebate removal

30/09/2008

It is reported that steel exports in Guangdong rose by 20.4% YoY to 294,000 tonnes in August and average prices beat an all time high with a 47.1% hike to USD 1137 per tonne. What is worth attention is that steel products exported to ASEAN and EU are almost doubled.

Vietnam does not dump leather-capped shoes on EU: MOIT

30/09/2008

VietNamNet Bridge – In an interview with press agencies on September 25 on the margin of Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem’s trip to EU countries, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Le Danh Vinh once again affirmed that Vietnam does not dump leather-capped shoes on the EU market.

U.S. duties on some Chinese paper imports top 250 percent

30/09/2008

The U.S. Department of Commerce is imposing tariffs on Chinese imports of lightweight thermal paper products ranging from about 33 percent to more than 250 percent under final decisions the agency reached in its unfair trade investigation spurred by a complaint from paper products maker Appleton.

Shoe duties review period to be slashed

30/09/2008

Commission will return duties levied on Chinese shoemakers if anti-dumping review rules in their favour.

Lamy warns against protectionism amid financial crisis

30/09/2008

WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his keynote address to the WTO Public Forum on 24 September 2008, said that an important lesson of the Great Depression “is that protectionism and economic isolationism do not work”. Underlining the importance of the Doha Round to the world economy, he asked civil society to help bring negotiating topics such as agriculture and environment issues to “closure”. This is what he said:

Indonesia official says China not dumping sodium

30/09/2008

JAKARTA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Anti-Dumping Committee (KADI) said Thursday that China was not dumping sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) into Indonesia, according to local daily Bisnis Indonesia.

B.C. Premier, Emerson slam NDP for promise to negotiate new softwood deal

30/09/2008

VANCOUVER, PENTICTON — NDP Leader Jack Layton was roundly criticized Friday for proposing to tear up the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement, with both B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and former international trade minister David Emerson saying the idea is preposterous.