The European Parliament has completed the last stage in the process to grant the Philippines Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) that will provide duty free entry to the EU for some of the most important Philippine exports, ...
China's Ministry of Finance issued its customs duties implementation plan for 2015 on December 17, with the duties in question to become effective as of January 1, 2015. Accordingly, China's export tariffs for pig iron, semi-finished ...
Tags: pig iron, semi-finished steel, wire rod, Metallurgy
The European Commission has announced that it has ordered the registration of cold rolled stainless flat imports from China and Taiwan, highlighting the possibility of imposing antidumping and countervailing duties for both import sources. ...
Tags: import sources, flat imports, Metallurgy
The World Diamond Conference that took place last week in New Delhi, India, created a buzz in the industry that, frankly, needed a bit of a pick-up considering the state of the market. It not often that two heads of state attend a diamond ...
Tags: Diamond Trade, Arts
In the January-November period this year, Ukraine exported 837,141 mt of ferrous scrap metal, up 3.8 times year on year, worth a total of $265.442 million, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Revenue and Duties. In the given period, ...
Tags: scrap metal, Metallurgy
The Finance Ministry announced it would lower import tariffs on some goods including camera lens from January 1 to support industrial development and to refine the trade mix. The ministry said applocable imports included manufacturing ...
Tags: Import Tariffs, Camera Lenses
The worldwide solar market demand in 2014 was approximately at 44GW, even though the China market did not perform as well as expectations, due to the continuous growth in Japan and the U.S. market, the supply and demand remained stable. At ...
Tags: Solar Demand, Solar Cell
American department of commerce announced the preliminary results on Nov.24, it would levy countervailing duties for this kind of product by confirming the imports of Chinese tyres have a subsidy. As a "state on the tyre",the United ...
Tags: Countervailing Duties, Tyres
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
Tags: man-made fibres, Apparel, Textile
Importers who purchased tires from Giti Tire Group or Cooper Kunshan are exempt from the 90-day retroactive tariffs imposed by the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) on consumer tire imports from China. The DOC “individually ...
Tags: Retroactive Tariffs, Auto
A review of the chain of responsibility duties provides an opportunity for the transport industry to have a say in how these laws could be improved and encourage safer behaviour on our roads, says the NTC. The National Transport ...
Tags: transport industry, Heavy Vehicle, Service
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. will sell its 65% ownership in Cooper Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Co. Ltd (CCT) to Chengshan Group Co. Ltd. for approximately $262 million. “Resolving the ownership of CCT has been a key goal for us, and we ...
Tags: Cooper Tire, Cooper-branded products, Auto
Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has specially tailored a 2.5-tonne forklift to meet the specific site needs at a New South Wales Lime plant. Sibelco Australia commissioned a new diesel-powered Toyota 72-8FD25 forklift in October ...
The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday announced its preliminary affirmative determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation against imports of certain passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China, a move signaling that ...
Tags: Punitive Duties, Chinese Tires
The tire industry has urged the government to take decisive measures against the anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on tires imported from China after the United States Department of Commerce claimed on Monday that Chinese ...
Tags: tire industry, Tire