EU-China: ‘Europe-China: Trade war is declared’
Beijing has threatened to contest the European Commission's decision to impose taxes on Chinese solar panels and telecommunications equipment before the World Trade Organisation. Germany, which accounts for more than half of...Read more...
To Help Worker Safety, Bring Back Managed Trade
Reposted from Bloomberg News ***** To Help Worker Safety, Bring Back Managed Trade Alan Tonelson | May 16yh, 2013 | Bloomberg News If all it took were official cajoling, public shaming, technical assistance or corporate...Read more...
Vilsack Says U.S. Farm Plans May End Brazil Cotton Impasse
Source – Bloomberg Businessweek By Eric Martin and Alan Bjerga Date – 17 May 2013 Website – www.businessweek.com U.S. House and Senate agriculture committee proposals for a new farm law represent a “good faith” effort by...Read more...
Beef industry embroiled in battle over U.S. country-of-origin labelling
The Canadian cattle industry is poised for a new cross-border beef battle. A decade after a lone case of BSE in an Alberta cow caused the world to slam shut its borders to Canadian beef, the industry faces a new trade barrier.Read more...
King & Spalding Recruits Iain MacVay to Launch London Trade and Customs Practice
King & Spalding Recruits Iain MacVay to Launch London Trade and Customs Practice PressRelease by King & Spalding (firmenpresse) - LONDON -- (Marketwired) -- 05/20/13 -- King & Spalding has established a London trade practice...Read more...
Roberto Azevedo's WTO appointment gives Brazil a seat at the top table
New director general was not Britain and the US's preferred candiate but gives developing nations a voice at WTO Earlier this month the World Trade Organisation (WTO) announced that it had chosen the Brazilian Roberto Azevedo,...Read more...
The Subsidy Game
What nation plays it best? Over the past five years, the issue of global currencies and unfair currency manipulation has received much attention as countries like China, Brazil, Switzerland, and the United States have been...Read more...
Argentina Takes EU Biodiesel Policy to WTO
has requested World Trade Organization consultations with the European Union regarding measures imposed by the EU and its member states that affect the importation and marketing of biodiesel, as well as measures supporting the...Read more...
Chinese Passenger Vehicle Market 2013-2023
World News: 16:41 GMT Monday 20th May 2013. [Reportlinker via PR Newswire] Chinese Passenger Vehicle Market 2013-2023 NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is...Read more...
gregor.davidson share: Is Latin America the new Asia?
gregor.davidson share: Is Latin America the new Asia? After China committed itself to free market standards with its World Trade Organization (WTO) entry in 2001, hundreds of North American plant managers relocated their...Read more...
Has Drug-Driven Medicine Become A Form of Human Sacrifice?
– Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will...Read more...
U.S. to introduce stricter rules on meat imports, labels
Canada, Mexico threaten retaliation The United States is expected to propose new rules this week that would require meat to be labeled with information about where an animal was born, fed and slaughtered -- a move that has...Read more...
Trade Policy and Economic Decline
J.R. Martin writes of Chinese companies “exploiting loopholes in the U.S.-China tax treaty signed by the Reagan administration in 1986.” He asks what the Founding Fathers would say about our current trade deficit, and our...Read more...
Has Drug-Driven Medicine Become A Form of Human Sacrifice?
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will...Read more...
Discourse: Indonesia doesn’t want to miss the game
Concurrently with its economic growth, Indonesia has intensified its involvement in various international forums. In terms of international trade, it has shown its dynamism and worked closely with ...Read more...
Early Freedom
Vatican bank’s info-sharing deal with the US; cheaper iPhones in the offing; and more Former Enron CEO Skilling could be freed by 2018 To Tip, Or Not To? A Ready Reckoner Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron CEO, could be freed...Read more...
Russian Food Processing Sector Provides Opportunities for Exporters
RUSSIA - A fall in Russia’s tariffs as mandated by its accession to the World Trade Organisation last year have so far failed to come into full effect. However, Russia is one of the world’s largest import markets for food...Read more...
Swiss Cheese & Chocolate
Cheese is a problem. Switzerland produces wonderful cheeses and chocolates, but protects its farmers to the max. That’s one of the few hits that Switzerland took in its Trade Policy Review last month in the World Trade...Read more...
UK trade may struggle to stand still after EU exit
As British Prime Minister David Cameron struggles to accommodate eurosceptics in his own party, trade experts warn that quitting the EU would force Britain not just to rework trade relations with the EU, but also with the EU’s...Read more...
India worried over WTO's verdict on Ontario solar case
Ruling could hit India’s chances in its case against US The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) recent ruling against Ontario’s domestic content requirements for renewable energy projects is setback for India, which is defending a...Read more...
Samoa lifts ban on high-fat turkey tails
Samoa lifts ban on high-fat turkey tails Samoa lifts ban on high-fat turkey tails Samoa has been forced to lift a ban on high-fat turkey tails, which was introduced amid concerns about diabetes, obesity and heart disease....Read more...
Latin American geoeconomics
ON MAY 23rd in the Colombian city of Cali the presidents of four Latin American countries—Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru—will sign an agreement removing tariffs on 90% of their merchandise trade. They will also agree on a...Read more...
U.S. groups file complaint on ethanol duty
The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy filed on May 16 a complaint with the General Court in Luxembourg challenging the E.U.’s decision to impose a 9.6% antidumping duty on all ethanol imported from the U.S....Read more...
Astana Economic Forum
Saturday, 18 May 2013 by Admin Financial regulatory reforms proposed by G20 are not sufficient to restore the stability of the global financial system. This was repeatedly stated by international experts. The world is in search...Read more...
Acting U.S. Trade Representative Marantis on World Trade Month
Acting United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis issues a message on World Trade Month. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Message from Acting United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis on World...Read more...
Acting DOE chief: US not backing down on Indian solar practices
Acting Energy Department (DOE) Secretary Daniel Poneman said the Obama administration is not backing down from requests that India eschew solar policies that it says might violate international trade rules. At issue are Indian...Read more...
South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19
Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries...Read more...
Ag policy food security linked
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) — The United States says it is prepared to examine how agricultural policy reform could boost global food security as part of a package of commitments at the World Trade Organization’s upcoming...Read more...
Westerwelle: “Transatlantic Partnership – Working Together for Tomorrow’s World”
"The vision of a transatlantic single market now gives us an opportunity to infuse the transatlantic partnership with new momentum. In a dramatically changing world, we have to turn to our common strengths in order to shape...Read more...
Canadian Pork Producers Reboot
By Suzanne Deutsch Downsized hog industry is focusing on new global markets. The Canadian hog industry is back to recovery mode. Those who have weathered the drought are ready to take on new markets.“When you look at the big...Read more...
