Chevron on Friday revised slightly lower an earlier future production target due to prolonged but uncertain lower oil prices, while at the same slashing its capital spending for 2016 by 25% compared to this year. The company now sees ...
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The Chinese government has recently canceled the export quotas on rare earth, tungsten and molybdenum, drawing close attention of all sectors of society. An official of the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce said ...
In April 2014, the Ministry of Commerce integrated some of the business functions of the former Bureau of Fair Trade and the former Bureau of Industrial Damage Investigation and officially established the Bureau of Trade Remedy and ...
The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and the Straits Exchange Foundation(SEF) jointly held the 7th Regular Meeting of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee in Taipei on January 29, 2015. Executive Vice ...
The Department of Commerce of the United States published the results of the final decision of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against tyre of passenger car and light truck originating in China on June 12, 2015. The tax rate is ...
The “Seminar of the 20th Anniversary of the WTO”, jointly hosted by China Society for World Trade Organization Studies (CWTO) and the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), was successfully held in Beijing on ...
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Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen met with Willy Alfaro, Director of Trade Policies Review Division of the WTO Secretariat in Beijing on September 22. They exchanged views on China’s preparatory work for the 6th trade policy review. ...
On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries announced conclusion of their negotiations. The summary of the TPP Agreement is as follows: Disclaimer: The Following Summary of the Trans-Pacific ...
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A heated debate on how the United States should react to China's rise is going on in the United States. The main dispute is whether the long-established approach to China should be abandoned. In the past 30 years, the United States has ...
Japan's integrated beverages company Kirin is reportedly planning to acquire 55% stake in Myanmar Brewery from Singapore-based beverage producer Fraser and Neave (F&N) for $560m. Reuters cited sources familiar with the matter as saying ...
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Brewing major Anheuser-Busch has withdrawn its membership from Beer Distributors of Oklahoma (BDO), a state organization for licensed independent beer distributors in Oklahoma, US, due to concerns over Oklahoma’s beer laws. BDO ...
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Marvel Enterprises will no longer have to pay royalties to Stephen Kimble, the inventor of the Web Blaster. The US Supreme Court has backed a decision that lets Marvel Enterprises out of a deal to pay royalties to Stephen Kimble, the ...
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Canada and Mexico will move World Trade Organization (WTO) for authorization to slap $3bn in tariffs against the US, as a retaliatory trade measure over meat packaging. The bone of contention is the 2009 laws, which, according to Canada ...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has rejected appeal from the US regarding the country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat dispute between the US, Canada and Mexico. WTO said that labels carrying information about where meat is raised ...
Tags: Origin Labeling, labeling
Apple and electric battery maker A123 Systems are nearing settlement of a legal tiff that saw the latter accusing the former of poaching its staff to set up a battery unit for its electric car venture. While final details are being worked ...
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