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
Nichia and Everlight continue to scrap over intellectual property with the former taking new action, while Cree and Osram make executive appointments and The Connected Lighting Alliance will study commercial indoor SSL. Nichia has ...
On 22 November, Japanese LED maker Nichia Corp filed an amended complaint in its on-going patent infringement lawsuit against Taiwanese LED maker Everlight Electronics Co Ltd and its US subsidiary Everlight Americas Inc, originally filed on ...
Tags: electrical, LED
The European Union on Wednesday imposed hefty duties on Chinese imports of glass used in solar panels, saying China's producers were exporting at unfairly low prices that threatened European manufacturers. The European Commission said in ...
Tags: Eu Slaps, Chinese Solar Glass Imports, exporting at unfairly low prices
The Eurasian Economic Commission has launched an antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding hot rolled steel bar imports from Ukraine into the member countries of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, according to local ...
Tags: metallurgy, steelmaking
The European Biodiesel Board, a major group of biodiesel producers, hailed on Tuesday a decision by the European Commission to slap definitive antidumping duties against what it called "unfair imports" of soybean- and palm oil-based ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV joins a new generation of production vehicles embarking on an alternative-fuels crusade in the coming years. PHEV, which stands for Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle, is essentially the next evolution of hybrid ...
SAP has been slapped with a lawsuit by California’s state controller over a payroll software implementation that cost taxpayers vast sums, but has never worked correctly. The suit, filed Thursday in Sacramento County District ...
The Brazilian government has launched an antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding seamless pipes with external diameter ranging from 3 mm to 141.3 mm imported from China, upon the complaint filed by Brazil-based pipe producer Vallourec ...
Tags: Brazil, antidumping, duty, investigation, Chinese, seamless pipe
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has imposed a monetary penalty of $100,000 on Republic Mortgage Insurance Corporation (RMIC) for allegedly paying illegal kickbacks to mortgage lenders in exchange for business. In a ...
Tags: Insurance, Kickbacks Practices
In November, The American Trucking Associations (ATA) filed a lawsuit against the New York State Thruway challenging its truck-toll system. The complaint challenges the Thruway’s annual diversion of millions of dollars of toll ...
Tags: ATA, New York, sue, thruway, tolling practice
Pilkington North America, a subsidiary of Nippon Sheet Glass, has announced it is closing its Lathrop, Calif., plant, which currently manufactures commercial architectural and automotive glass. According to a release from the company, ...
Tags: Pilkington, clothing, Lathrop, plant
The Silk Road online marketplace has resurfaced about a month after U.S. officials shut down the website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity service. They had arrested Ross William Ulbricht - who was alleged to be the ...
Tags: Silk Road, online marketplace
The European Commission has announced that it has imposed a definitive antidumping duty on Indian stainless steel wire imports.The antidumping duty rates range between zero percent and 12.5 percent. The duty investigation was imitated in ...
Tags: EU, Indian, AD duty, stainless steel wire
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has determined that there is a reasonable indication that the dumping of hot rolled (HR) carbon steel plate from Brazil, Taiwan, Denmark, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and South Korea has caused ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, HR Steel Plate, steel, Construction