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
Starlinger, a producer of machinery for woven plastic sack production is showing the next generation of high-tech circular weaving technology - FX 6.0 series at OTM 2014 in Gaziantep, Turkey. “After thorough testing in the company's ...
At the Vision Congress in Paris (14-15 October), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany showcased an LED for car headlights with luminance three times that of existing versions, so that a single LED can be used to provide a ...
Tags: Headlight LED, Single-LED
Between January and August 2014, China shipped 5.4 million tons of rolled steel to Latin America, 54 percent more than the 3.5 million metric tons in the same period in 2013, Alacero reported this week. Alacero said the demand for steel ...
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Weichai Power released their sales report on Oct. 14, and their net profits were 432-463 million Yuan till Sept this year, up 60-70% over last year. And the net profits for the listed company shareholders are 558 to 868 million Yuan from ...
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The Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC), the leading producer of methanol in Qatar, is set to organize the first-ever Middle East Methanol Forum on the 26th of November, 2014 at Sharq Village and Spa, in Doha. QAFAC will conduct the ...
Tags: Methanol, Fuel Additives
Royal warrant holder, Hypnos Beds, found success at the National Bed Federation annual awards ceremony, by taking home two prestigious awards. After months of consideration by the expert judging panel, Hypnos was named as Bed Manufacturer ...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for September 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with September 2013. US Class I railroads originated 1,190,431 carloads ...
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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 FlipKart Diwali offer in which consumers could not access juicy deals, due to massive response and in turn and led to jamming the online retailer’s website, should not be used as a ploy to over-regulate the fledgling ecommerce ...
Double Coin Holdings LLC and its American subsidiary, China Manufacturers Alliance LLC (CMA), plan to fight the U.S. Department of Commerce’s preliminary decision to impose a duty of 105% on CMA’s imports of off-the-road (OTR) ...
Tags: Antidumping, AD rate
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 ...
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French car manufacturer Peugeot has unveiled the upgraded version of PEUGEOT 508 with significant improvements at the 2014 Paris Motor show. The car will be powered by a 2-liter engine capable of producing 140 PS or 163 PS on tap, and ...
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U.S. jewelry store sales jumped 8 percent year on year to $2.37 billion in July, according to the government's retail survey. The increase for jewelry stores was stronger than the overall jewelry and watch sector, which recorded a ...
Tags: jewelry store, watch sector