The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has decided to pursue dispute settlement consultations with the Government of China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) concerning China’s “Demonstration Bases-Common Service ...
In mid-December, the EU Commission notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it intends to restrict four additional substances under the RoHS2 directive. The update will bring the number of hazardous substances listed in Annex II of ...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has replaced its foot, inch and yard measurement system with the metric system in textile trade, under the national system of measurement and calibration, according to the Emirates Authority for ...
Tags: Textile Trade, yard measurement, metric system, Textile
China's State Council (central government) has ordered its subordinate agencies and local governments to stop offering subsidies and tax incentives for China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers because such offering has disrupted ...
Tags: LED industry, LED wafer
Gao Hucheng,Minister of commerce, saidChina's exports would qualitatively change and capital output characteristics will be embodied through the foreign trade data. China has combined foreign investment and foreign trade together. Through ...
Tags: Foreign Trade, Capital Export
Chinese President Xi Jinping. Australian exporters are set to benefit from an historic trade agreement signed between Australia and its largest trading partner, China. This deal, which took nine years of negotiation, represents a victory ...
Tags: PTA, Australian exporters, agriculture
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has announced that it was notified by India on October 20 that it has launched a safeguard probe on 400 series stainless steel cold rolled (CR) flat product imports. According to the WTO, the ...
Tags: Stainless CR Flat, stainless steel
In March this year, Indonesia won the right to seek a ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Australia's tobacco plain-packaging laws. The WTO's disputes settlement body agreed to set up an independent panel of trade and legal ...
Tags: Packaging Laws
Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Ukraine have contested the standardised packaging laws, calling them an illegal restriction on trade, but the panel of judges said there won’t be a WTO ruling until at the first half ...
Tags: Tobacco Pack Laws, packaging
The United States and Brazil have agreed to settle their long-standing Cotton dispute in the World Trade Organization (WTO). As per the agreement, Brazil will relinquish all rights to countermeasures against US trade. In turn, the US ...
Tags: Cotton Dispute
Brazil and the U.S. have ended a longstanding trade battle. The two countries have been fighting since 2002 over subsidies that the U.S. government provides to U.S. cotton growers. Brazil brought a case against the U.S. charging that the ...
Tags: trade battle, subsidies
Economists at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have downwardly revised their world trade growth estimate for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous estimate of 5.3 percent. For 2014 also, the WTO has reduced its world trade growth ...
Tags: world trade growth, GDP growth
The CIF Bremen Index dropped considerably this week, influenced by movements of New York Cotton Futures. The latest Bremen Cotton Exchange report says basically good production conditions prevail in major cotton planting areas. In ...
Tags: CIF Bremen Index, Drop, Textile
Over the last ten-and-a-half weeks relentless spec and trade selling has pushed the December contract nearly 1700 points lower and it still remains to be seen where this decline ultimately leads to. From a technical perspective we are now ...
American Apparel & Footwear Association President & CEO Juanita D. Duggan strongly criticized the apparent collapse of a multilateral trade agreement in Geneva yesterday. The 160 member World Trade Organization (WTO) was unable to move ...