The Government of Canada has removed tariffs on imports of baby clothes in its bid to reduce the up to 40 percent difference in Canadian and the US retail prices. The move, announced as a part of the 2013 Federal Budget, also ...
Tags: Baby Clothes, clothes, garments
An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a patent owned by Motorola Mobility. In a one-paragraph ruling, Judge David P. Shaw gave an ...
Tags: Microsoft, Xbox, Google Patent
External trade statistics are of central importance to economic policy. Among other things, its foreign trade contribution shows how a country is positioned compared to its trade partners. But how much do official statistics really tell us ...
With reference to reports appearing in sections of the Bangladeshi media, this is to clarify that no new Countervailing Duty (CVD) has been imposed in the Indian Union Budget 2013-14 on Ready Made Garment (RMG) imports into India. The CVD ...
Tags: Indian Embassy, CVD, Bangla Apparel Exports
Two upcoming Intertextile Home Textile shows continue to serve as the substantial trading platforms during China’s key sourcing season for home textile and furnishing products. Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Spring ...
Tags: Intertextile Home Textile shows, Messe, Home Textile Fairs
The Japan government recently started its quantitative easing (QE) policies putting pressure on other Asia currencies. Taiwan's premier Sean Chen has urged Taiwan's central bank to adopt necessary measures to stabilize domestic prices and ...
Tags: Taiwan, Central Bank, Global Currency Battle
During the panel discussion at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in Izmir on January 16, Mehmet Zeren, general secretary of Turkey's Steel Pipe Manufacturers Association, said that Turkey ranks first in Europe and fifth in the world ...
Tags: SteelOrbis Market, Izmir, Turkey, Steel Pipe Manufacturers Association
Stirred by a likely boost in demand from countries like the US and Japan, Indonesian textile manufacturers see their exports rising by six percent to US$ 13.4 billion during the current year, Indonesian Textile Association (API) has said. ...
Tags: API, textile exports, textile, textile manufacturers
China Knowledge reported that China's total logistics expense grew 11.9%YoY to CNY 8 trillion in the first eleven months of this year. According to figures from the National Development and Reform Commission,the growth rate was 0.4 ...
Business Recorder reported that the Federal Board of Revenue has decided to collect adjustable sales tax at 5%on the value of imported goods or INR 1600 per metric tonne,whichever is higher,on the import of re meltable iron and steel scrap. ...
Tags: FBR, STSPR, sales tax, steel scrap, Pakistan
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an April decision by its administrative law judge in a patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola Mobility that has attracted a lot of attention including from the U.S. ...
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On December 18, 2012, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations of imports of steel wire garment hangers from Vietnam. The AD and ...
Tags: US DOC, steel wire, garment hangers
Business Recorder reported that the Federal Board of Revenue will apply Section 153 of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 on the ship breaking industry and recover 3.5% withholding tax on sale of ship plates to steel re-rolling mills recovery of ...
Tags: Federal Board of Revenue, Income Tax Ordinance, withholding tax, steel
THE federal government has thrown water on claims by state treasurers that it's committed to taking action to lower the GST threshold on imported goods. NSW Treasurer Mike Baird yesterday released a statement saying that the federal ...
Tags: Computer Products, Consumer Electronics, GST
On December 18th,2012,the Department of Commerce announced its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations of imports of utility scale wind towers from China and Vietnam. The AD and CVD ...