On Wednesday, Warren, Ohio-based Thomas Steel Strip Corporation filed an anti-dumping petition against diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated steel flat-rolled products from Japan. According to the petition, Thomas Steel Strip Corp. is the only ...
Tags: Steel Strip, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
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: bicycles, Canadian Industry, bikes import
Cotton Australia has filed a submission to the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) in a bid to stop a proposed 17.5% increase in electricity tariffs for Queensland growers. The QCA’s draft determination on electricity prices for ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Australia, Cotton Industry
Japan and the European Union (EU) announced on March 25 that the two economies had decided to launch formal trade talks. European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Japanese Prime ...
Tags: Automobile, Auto Parts, Transportation
The prelude to 2013's 4G battle has intensified as mobile operator Three UK has announced that it has gained almost a million customers in the past year. In its annual financial report, Three said that it had added 900,000 new customers ...
Tags: 4G Battle, Computer Products
The EU and Japan officially launched the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The aim is for a comprehensive agreement in goods, services and investment eliminating tariffs, non-tariff barriers and covering other trade-related ...
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Cotton Australia is rallying the industry behind a campaign to stop a proposed 17.5% increase in electricity tariffs for Queensland growers. Cotton Australia’s Policy Manager for Queensland & Water, Michael Murray, says the ...
Tags: cotton sector, cotton, cotton fetches
It is less than a month since the Decree 0074 of 2013, amending the tariff on apparel imports, was implemented in Colombia, but it has already resulted in the creation of about 1,500 new jobs, Colombian Chamber of Clothing and Allied ...
Tags: apparel sector, apparel, clothing
The Japan government continues to promote the use of renewable energy and lower the percentage of electricity generated from nuclear power. In July 2012, the government announced a full buy-back scheme which successfully stimulated solar ...
Tags: solar installations, solar, renewable energy
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has revoked the antidumping (AD) orders on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany and Korea and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
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
The Association of Industries of Haiti has become the 31st trade group to join the Textile and Apparel Alliance for TPP (TAAT), which comprises trade associations advocating strong and fair textile rules in the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
Tags: Textile
Analyst warns of 'overheating' as Japan rushes to install PV 19 Mar 2013 Country set to become second-largest PV market after China this year, says IMS Research. More than 5 GW of photovoltaic systems are set to be installed in Japan ...
Tags: PV, PV market, PV systems
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles Shri Anand Sharma conveyed to the Trade Ministers of various African countries that despite the gloomy global environment, where there has been a contraction of trade, and with ...