China's commerce ministry called on the United States on Sunday to stop anti-dumping investigations into imports of solar power products from China, expressing "serious concern" and vowing to defend its producers. US trade officials on ...
The US Commerce Department said Thursday that it has launched anti-dumping and countervailing investigations over imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China. The investigations are in response to a petition ...
Tags: photovoltaic products, Mineral
Countervailing, antidumping duties to be levied if injury to US found Chinese companies are actively responding to the latest United States anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the solar products field, aiming to prove they did ...
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Orders for durable goods dropped in December for the first time in five months, the Commerce Department reported. Orders for products meant to last more than three years fell 4.3%, which followed a 2.6% increase in November. The bulk of ...
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Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting that begins Tuesday. The most active gold contract for February delivery fell 0.9 U. S. dollar, or 0.07 ...
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China's Commerce Ministry on Monday imposed five-year duties on solar-grade polysilicon imports from the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK). Starting on Monday, China will apply anti-subsidy duties of up to 2.1 percent and ...
Tags: tariffs, trade disputes
A US trade panel voted on Thursday to extend antidumping duties on iron pipe fittings and sodium nitrite from China. The US International Trade Commission (USITC) voted against revoking the existing duty orders on non-malleable cast iron ...
December housing starts dropped 9.9%, the Commerce Department said Jan. 17. Starts fell to an annual rate of 999,000 units in December from a revised 1.1 million pace in November, which was the highest since November 2007. Economists ...
Tags: Housing, Housing Drop, U.S.Housing
Wal-Mart Corp. Retail sales grew 0.2% in December, the Commerce Department reported Jan. 14. The expansion followed a 0.4% increase in November that was smaller than previously reported. On average, analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News ...
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The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it has launched antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations into imported calcium hypochlorite from China. Calcium hypochlorite is an ingredient in bleaching powder, ...
The United Steelworkers (USW) supports the unanimous affirmative vote by the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to keep existing "orders" on OTR tires imported from China. According to the union, the decision ...
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Leah Nash/Bloomberg News Wholesale inventories rose 0.5% in November after a rise the prior month, the Commerce Department reported Jan. 10. Sales increased 1% in November after a 1.1% rise the prior month. The rise in inventories ...
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A US trade panel voted on Monday to extend anti-dumping and countervailing duties on off-the-road tire products from China after the first five-year review of the measures imposed initially in 2008. The US International Trade Commission ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Duties, Tire Products
Ken James/Bloomberg News Factory orders increased 1.8% in November, the Commerce Department reported Jan. 6. The rise followed a revised 0.5% decline in October. The increase was greater than economists’ forecast of a 1.7% rise, ...
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A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety