Peru’s National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (INDECOPI) has reiterated that it is conducting investigation on Chinese clothing imports and US cotton imports under the framework of the ...
Tags: Apparel, Chinese apparel
Global efforts to battle trade protectionism need to be reinforced to help shield the fragile economic recovery across the world. In a report released today, the European Commission identified about 150 new trade restrictions introduced ...
Tags: economy
The WTO lawsuit is expected to reach a verdict at the end of this year. Members of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths (CSRE) and Association of Rare Earth Industry (ACREI) have expressed that China has a high chance of losing the lawsuit ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Secretary of Economy of Mexico, Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal in a meeting with the Minister of Trade of the Republic of China, Gao Hucheng stressed the importance of reaching a satisfactory solution regarding complaints expressed by ...
Tags: Textiles
Metinvest, the largest Ukrainian mining and metal holding company, has reported that controls by Russian customs on its steel products supplied to the Russian market have increased from August 13 this year. Extra weighing is now carried ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
The Stainless Steel Tube Trade Advancement Committee (SSTTAC) said Wednesday that it has completed market research of Chinese trade practices in selling seamless stainless steel pipe and tube in the US market and the data confirms ...
Tags: Chinese Mills, Stainless Pipe
A World Trade Organization (WTO) panel circulated a report on Aug. 2 regarding the dispute of China's anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures on chicken products from the United States. The panel upheld the U.S. claims that China ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping, Chicken Inconsistent
On Thursday, West Chester, Ohio-based AK Steel said that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced its implementation of the recommendations and rulings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) regarding ...
Tags: AK Steel, WTO Ruling
A trade agreement between the EU on one side and the Central American nations of Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama on the other has set into motion from August 1, 2013. The trade agreement, which was part of an Association Agreement ...
The Ghana Textile Garment and Leather Employees Union (TGLEU) has urged the Ministry of Trade and Industry to reconsider its decision to give seized pirated textiles to charity. The decision of the Ghanaian Government violates Trade ...
The Chinese textile industry as a whole needs to upgrade completely, said participants at the China Cotton and Textile Industry Development Forum held in New York. China has witnessed rapid economic development over the last 30 years, ...
Tags: Textile Industry
China's investment in Africa has increased 30-fold since 2005, a commerce official said Thursday. According Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian, who spoke at a press conference in Beijing Thursday, the investment was divided amongst ...
Tags: African Investment
MasterCard didn't make a peep earlier this month when word leaked that Beijing had halted the company's transactions in renminbi. Leaked documents didn't show when the payments were terminated, but the central bank effectively stopped the ...
Tags: MasterCard, Foreign Firms, Credit Cards
The comments were made in a meeting that several delegates described as unique because it deals with a single commodity, and does so by looking at trade, development and other aspects. Although the official focus is primarily on ...
Tags: Cotton Producers, Textile
The Chinese flow control and treatment market is growing at double-digit rates and will reach just under $1 billion annually by 2017. This the aggregated forecast in a number of McIlvaine Market reports. China accounts for 20 percent of ...
Tags: Chinese Pharmaceutical, Health, Medicine