The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reached an interim agreement that will shield public stockpiling programs for food security in developing countries from the usual limitations on governments buying food from domestic farmers at ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The WTO Saturday reached a breakthrough in its multilateral trade negotiation by sealing its first-ever global trade package at its 9th ministerial meeting after 4 Latin American countries gave up objections to the package. Gita Wirjawan, ...
Tags: WTO, Trade Package
China will expand its cooperation program with the group of four major African cotton- producing countries, or the C4, trade officials from the two sides announced at the sidelines of the ongoing 9th Ministerial Conference of the World ...
It seems that the status quo in the Bangladeshi textile industry hasn't changed that much. However, the increasing pressure from some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) through social media and newspapers has caused some ...
Tags: Rupp Report, Bangladesh
The Brazilian Government is still studying and discerning as to what action it would be taking against the US for the non-payment of compensation to Brazilian cotton producers who were affected by the agricultural subsidies of the country, ...
Tags: Cotton, Subsidy Issue
The American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) announced Tuesday the selection of Richard Chriss as its new Executive Director, replacing David Phelps, who is retiring. Phelps served as the Institute's Executive Director and later ...
Tags: Steel, steel industry, metallurgy, aiis
Fortress Paper Ltd. announces that that China's Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") has made a preliminary determination to impose an interim duty on the import of Canadian dissolving pulp into China. The interim duty applied against the ...
Tags: Fortress, Anti-Dumping Duty
The Ministry of Commerce said China strongly opposes disclosure of an interim World Trade Organization report that disfavors the nation's claim in its rare earths disputes with other countries. "The case is under panel examination, which ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Rare Earth
Director of Data and Resource Center of China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) Zhu Xianglei recently says at the China Special Vehicle Development Forum (Suizhou) 2013 on October 19 that China's truck industry gets gradual ...
Tags: Truck, Transportation, auto
Ukraine is going to increase its 2013 quota for imports of metallurgical coke up to 300,000 mt from the current 210,000 mt, and also increase the 2013 quota for coking coal by 1 million mt, the press service of Ukraine's First Deputy Prime ...
Tags: Coke, Coking Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) this week submitted comments to the inter-agency Trade Policy Staff Committee, led by the US Trade Representative (USTR), outlining specific instances where "foreign government laws, policies, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, steel
India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma raised the issue of restrictive regime on imports of textiles, during a meeting with Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan. Mr. Sharma was accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan ...
Tags: Concern, Textile Import Policy
Brazil’s Council of Ministers of Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX), chaired by the Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC), Fernando Pimentel, has decided to instruct the technical group of retaliation - created by ...
A workshop on Revisit the Roadmap for Jute was organized by the International Jute Study Group (IJSG) at IJSG Secretariat, Bangladesh on septemebr 2, 2013. A Road Map for Jute was commissioned by the International Trade Centre, ITC ...
The Government of Pakistan should involve all stakeholders including the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) while devising the ‘National Cotton Policy’, PCGA chairman Mahesh Kumar said during a press conference. ...
Tags: Cotton Policy, Textile