South Africa is set to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes by 2015, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Although investigation has been continuing on the ban of Australia's tobacco branding by World Trade Organisation ...
Tags: South Africa, Cigarettes, Packaging
Ireland Health Minister Dr James Reilly is set to bring the draft for plain cigarette packaging to Cabinet for approval. If approved by Cabinet and enacted by the Oireachtas, the new law will see the ban on the use of any logos on ...
Tags: Cigarette Packaging, Cabinet
We don’t regard Chrysler, Ford and General Motors as the Big 3 anymore, and for good reason. Detroit’s near-total dominance of the American car market and the U.S. policies that shape it is a fading memory. They operate in a ...
Tags: Power of Detroit, Trade Alliances
The world trade organization (WTO) will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary birthday, but someone worried about its life was at stake, because it does not address imbalances between developing countries and developed countries. Since from ...
According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Cuba claimed that the law would be "anti-capitalist" and would threaten free trade. The Communist country added that plain packaging would lead to an increase in counterfeit cigarettes, leading ...
Tags: economy, cigarettes, Agriculture
China will appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against its ruling that China's regulation of its rare earth exports had violated WTO rules, an official said on Thursday. The appeal will be lodged Thursday, Chinese Ministry of ...
Tags: Rare Earth, WTO rules
The Russian Union of Entrepreneurs of Textile and Light Industry, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will organize the 1st International Industry Forum for the ...
Tags: Textile Industry, textile
About Inmetro National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro) was created by law in December, 1973, to support t Brazilian enterprises, to increase their productivity and the quality of goods and services. ...
The market has felt deflated ever since the wild ride on March 26, during which the spot contract shot up to a high of 97.35 cents/lb before dropping more than 500 points below that level by the end of the session. From a technical ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Xinjiang cotton
There was no shortage of news for the cotton market to digest this week as ICE futures lost over 300 pts basis the K4 contract. Losses on Monday were re-couped on Tuesday ahead of the USDA's monthly WASDE report, which contained few ...
The China government has lowered its rare earths export quotas for 2014 by 30% compared to 2013 after the actual export volume last year was lower than its original estimates. Prices of cerium, yttrium and terbium oxide (rare earths used in ...
Tags: Rare Earths, LED, Metallurgy, Mineral
Russian authorities have imposed a ban on imports of dairy products into the country from six Ukrainian factories. Trade relations between the two countries were deteriorating since Russia annexed Crimea last month. The Russian consumer ...
Tags: Russia, Dairy Imports, Ukrainian Facilities
China is unlikely to reclaim its position as a major exporter of molybdenum oxide and ferromolybdenum despite the World Trade Organization ordering the country to remove export taxes and quota controls on the commodities, market sources ...
A World Trade Organization panel ruled that China violated the organization's membership obligations by restricting exports of rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum, the WTO said Wednesday. The ruling is expected to increase the ...
Tags: Rare Earths, Export Restrictions, tungsten
The World Trade Organization has ruled in favour of the US, Europe and Japan in a dispute with China over its export restrictions on rare earth. China's rare earth industry – responsible for almost 90% of global output – ...
Tags: Rare Earth, rare earth export