The EU and Japan finished the first week-long round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) less than a month after negotiations were officially launched. The EU team is headed up by Mauro Petriccione, Director in the European ...
Tags: Textile
The Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB) has stated that certain circles in Colombia have started a campaign of defamation against imports from Turkey, claiming that Turkish products are not up to standard, with the aim of hindering ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Mineral
On Wednesday, the Department of Commerce announced the initiation of an antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan. The petitioner for this investigation is ...
Tags: Nickel-Plated Flats, Mineral
Today, Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis commented on the announcement made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): "The United States welcomes Prime Minister Abe's important ...
Tags: Service
The North African country of Egypt would benefit from the reduction in cotton import tariff announced by Brazil’s Foreign Trade Board (Camex) last week. As per the announcement, duty on import of cotton, classified in product ...
Tags: Cotton Import, Cotton
The bigger jobs have been rolling in for us this month at SunGift, as our commercial team has been working hard on winning contract with highly-regarded installations. So we're delighted to announce that we've completed work on a 250 kW ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, vacuum cleaner
Global solar installations are forecast to exceed 35GW in 2013, equivalent to growth of 12%, according to IHS. Global solar installations in 2012 grew 14% on year to reach 31.4GW. Contrary to many other more pessimistic predictions for ...
The Government of Brazil has temporarily removed the tax on import of cotton for a period of three months from May 1 to July 31, 2013. At a meeting of the Foreign Trade Commission (CAMEX) and the Ministry of Development, Industry and ...
The fifth Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) for 2013-14, launched by the Government of South Africa, aims to support the manufacturing of textiles and clothing in the country, along with other sectors. Unveiling IPAP 2013-14, Minister ...
The Canadian government announced earlier this month that it would eliminate tariffs on several categories of imported goods, from baby clothes to skis and snowboards to golf and hockey equipment. But bicycles weren't on the list — ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Bangladesh's extensive diplomatic efforts and constant lobbying has saved one billion dollar RMG export to Canada, and paved the smooth way for future export. The Parliament of Canada has recently decided to amend the relevant criteria in ...
April 5, 2013 - According to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant's Energy Practice, by 2015, LEDs will become the second-leading type of lamp for street lights in terms of sales, behind high pressure sodium lamps. By 2020, ...
Tags: LED Street Lighting, LED, Lights, Lighting
Retail Council of Canada (RCC) recognizes as a landmark day for retailers with the fulfilment of the government's commitment to eliminating tariffs on baby clothes and sporting and athletic equipment. "We want to thank Minister Flaherty ...
Tags: Retail, baby clothes, baby clothing
Solar demand from the emerging Asia Pacific and Central Asia (EAPCA) region is forecast to exceed 3GW by 2017, according to Solarbuzz. Compared to 723MW of solar demand in 2012, this represents a strong compound annual growth rate of 28%. ...
Tags: Solar demand, Solar, Solarbuzz
Haiti became the 31st country to join the TAAT alliance which is seeking strong and fair textile rules in the TPP agreement. Gregor Avril, the Executive Director of the Association of Industries of Haiti said, “We stand with our ...
Tags: fair textile, textile rules, textile