- Anti-AIDS drugs: relaxation in WTO laws urged
Islamabad: HIV/AIDS thrives under conditions of conflict, displacement, trafficking, weak health and social safety systems, says ActionAid's report released here. The report "Time to Act: HIV/AIDS.... More
- Ban on import of precious stones lifted
Peshawar: The Customs authorities have lifted ban on import on precious and semi-precious stones from Afghanistan via Torkhum and abolished the conditionalities of NICs and stamp papers required for exports.
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- Beef in nation's markets free of disease
Beijing: Despite the mad cow crisis involving beef from the United States, it seems that consumers in China have no reason to worry about the disease.
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- BSE has protectionist legislators, industry jumping on buy US bandwagon
Washington: Recall Canadian livestock. Stop importing their beef products. Slap Born in the U.S.A. stickers on meat packages in grocery stores.
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- China slaps duties on steel
Shanghai: China has slapped tariffs of up to 55 percent on cold-rolled steel imports from Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Taiwan because they have hurt domestic producers.
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- China to further open oil product market
Beijing: The government has approved 24 more companies to run the wholesale business of oil products. It is the first time in four years for the government to issue such licences.
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- China to stop car trade protectionism
Beijing: China's central government plans to launch a campaign to stop trade protectionism in the automobile industry -- one of the fastest growing in the country.
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- China, India capturing shoe market
Karachi: The chairman, Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA), S M Naseem, said that shoe industry was steadily shifting from Europe to China and India as both the countries are catering to the needs of buyers.... More
- Dumping, subsidy duties imposed on concrete steel wire strand
Washington: Antidumping duties shall be imposed on imports of pre-stressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from Brazil, India, Mexico, South Korea and Thailand, the U.S. International Trade Commission.... More
- Farmers seek MSP for all produce
Coimbatore: A good number of farmers in Alampalayam village, a hamlet near Udumalpet, are yet to recover from their experience of marketing onions, last season.
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- Govt eyes EU market, to notify Super Basmati
New Delhi: Notwithstanding the recent bonhomie between India and Pakistan, the government is likely to notify "Super Basmati"- an evolved variety of rice - as a grade of basmati grown in India.
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- Govt may buy back sovereign guarantee to ICI on PTA products
Karachi: Federal government may 'buy back' the sovereign guarantee given to the country's largest manmade fibre producer to protect its PTA productions, making textile exports competitive,.... More
- Grain trade warnings signal feed cost hikes
Beijing: Raw material prices for animal feed have largely maintained their very high levels achieved at the end of last year. Feed mills' cover of less expensive raw materials, which were forward bought .... More
- Imports chips into trade surplus
Beijing: Increased buying of foreign products reduced China's 2003 trade surplus by more than 16 per cent to US$25.5 billion, figures from the Ministry of Commerce show.
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- Japan seeks WTO OK to strike back at US provision
Tokyo: Japan is in the final stage of considering asking the World Trade Organization to allow it to take retaliatory steps against the United States for refusing to abandon an antidumping provision that.... More
- Japan urged to drop beef tariff
Tokyo: The rural lobby group Agforce has renewed calls for Japan to drop its 50 per cent tariffs on beef imports amid a hike in the price of Australian beef there.
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- Korea to resume rice market talks with WTO
Seoul: The government has notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of its intention to resume talks on opening the country's rice market, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) announced.
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- Minfal sits on wheat herbicides notification
Multan: Bureaucracy at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock has reportedly been delaying issuance of a notification about the import of wheat herbicides, anticipating a reshuffle in.... More
- Pakistan keen to review diesel import ban on India
New Delhi: Pakistan, which bans imports of diesel fuel from neighbouring India, plans to review policy to try and reduce a heavy dependence on Kuwaiti supplies, Petroleum Secretary M Abdullah Yusuf said.
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- Plea to ban import of global cigarette brands
Bangalore: The tobacco farmers of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have urged the Union Government to withdraw the permission given to international cigarette multinationals for export of their brands to India..... More
- Saudi group plans to set up billet plant
Karachi: The largest billet making Saudi company Al-Tuwairqi Group of Companies discussed possibilities for setting up a billet making plant in Pakistan with the officials of Pakistan Steel.
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- Spices Board apprises chilli industry on EU plans to inspect farms, units
Kochi: The Spices Board has held a meeting of those connected with chilli production, processing and export for developing appropriate measures to satisfy the requirements of safety in spice exports particularly .... More
- US panel clears anti-dumping duties on steel wire strand
Washington: A US trade panel gave final approval to steep anti-dumping duties on imported steel wire strand from Brazil, India, Mexico, South Korea and Thailand that is used in concrete.
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- US trade panel OKs China furniture duties
Washington: A U.S. panel gave preliminary approval to import duties on more than $1 billion of wooden bedroom furniture from China in the largest U.S. anti-dumping case yet against Chinese goods.
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