Anti-Dumping

Looks like there’s quite a development in US-China trade relations this week, as we continue to learn more about how the WTO ruled in an anti-dumping case that has a history all the way back to 2007 bottom line, the news is not so good for the US. Ultimately, this anti-dumping ruling could be another [...]

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Less than two weeks remain before MetalMiner and Spend Matters present their first conference on Tuesday, March 1, and it promises to be a doozy. Not only will International Trade Policy Breaking Point feature refreshing formats and a live video simulcast, but it boasts a cast of leading policy experts that will certainly make for [...]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqRqILb9QCI[/youtube] MetalMiner and its sister site, Spend Matters, along with Nucor, will host a live simulcast, International Trade Breaking Point, on March 1, 2011. If your company sources products from overseas, you will not want to miss this half-day event. Click here to register for the live simulcast today!

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Perhaps we’re a bit nerdier than most, but we’re among the cadre of wonks anticipating President Obama’s release of the new federal budget. Even though he decreed a five-year spending freeze, we’re not expecting a watershed budgetary result that reflects the necessary cuts. And even though the economy grew at a greater annual rate in [...]

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President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington, D.C., and Chicago last week frames the current international trade debate very nicely, and serves as a backdrop for a number of questions and issues surrounding the key global relationships between the world’s largest and up-and-coming economies not least of which is the US-China saga. As the US and [...]

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We’ve written extensively about why certain nations (ahem, China in particular) conveniently seem to keep “forgetting to follow WTO-mandated rules see here and here including the United States. The US is by no means an innocent when it comes to playing the trade game to their advantage, as is the case with the practice called [...]

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For most of the ongoing media coverage involving the pending US-South Korea FTA (free trade agreement), the subject of automobiles, agricultural exports and meat products has filled the headlines. So we decided to examine steel products to better understand why this area of bilateral trade between the two countries has gone largely unreported. First, consider [...]

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The WTO Secretariat reported that the first half of 2010 saw a 29 percent decrease in anti-dumping initiations of investigations, as well as a sizable decrease in new measures applied, when compared to the same period in 2009. With the spate of activity in dumping cases between China, the EU and the US since that [...]

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