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China LNG tariff casts shadow over new U.S. export terminals

19/09/2018

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - China set a 10 percent tariff on U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, extending a trade dispute into energy and casting a shadow over U.S. export terminals that would propel the United States into the world’s second-largest LNG seller.

China announces tariff hike on $60B of US products in response to Trump tariff hike

19/09/2018

BEIJING – The U.S.-China trade war escalated further Tuesday, with China announcing retaliatory tax increases on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports, including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals.

American Mattress Manufacturers File Antidumping Duty Petition Against Unfairly Traded Mattresses from China

19/09/2018

WASHINGTON, September 18, 2018 – Corsicana Mattress Company, Elite Comfort Solutions, Future Foam Inc., FXI, Inc., Innocor, Inc., Kolcraft Enterprises Inc., Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC, and Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (collectively, the “Mattress Petitioners”) today filed an antidumping duty petition demonstrating how unfairly traded imports of foam and innerspring mattresses from China are causing material injury and threat of material injury to the US mattress industry.

US issues lower duty on Vietnamese frozen fish fillets

17/09/2018

HÀ NỘI — The US government has lowered its anti-dumping duty on frozen fish fillets from Việt Nam in the 14th period of review (POR14), according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

India Says Solar Safeguard Duty Imposed After Court Delays

17/09/2018

(Bloomberg) -- India’s finance ministry said a 25 percent safeguard duty on solar cells and modules imported from China and Malaysia has been imposed, providing some clarity on the protectionist move that had been caught up in court battles.

Sri Lanka business leaders cry for protection

17/09/2018

Top business leaders made a rousing call to sell goods at high prices, taking cover behind import tax barriers erected with the help of the government, to 5.4 million households in Sri Lanka, of which 1.4 million families are on Samurdhi income support.

The perils of digital protectionism

17/09/2018

Nearly three decades since the balance of payments crisis, a sense of regret is palpable within our polity. It is no longer possible to hyphenate the development trajectories of India and China.

US cuts anti-dumping taxes on Vietnamese catfish

17/09/2018

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) reduced anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese tra and basa (pangasius) fish under its preliminary conclusion of the 14th period of review (POR14) for the period from August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017.