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The US agricultural sector might face the most risk in any tit-for-tat trade war, AIIS president Richard Chriss told American Metal Market by phone. Take solar panels, for example. When the US hit China with duties on its solar panel exports, Beijing retaliated against US sorghum exports. "That was a warning shot. …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China and Russia are urging the U.N. Security Council to end a host of sanctions against North Korea ranging from …

THE European response to the signing by President Hoover of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act was disapproval--immediate, undisguised and unanimous. Leading journals devoted columns to the discussion of the new American duties, analyzing their probable effect on exports to the United States and considering the possibilities of effective retaliation. A few conservative organs subjected the new …

Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status. Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. The information has been carefully selected and compiled from UNHCR's global network of field ...

Argentina import licensing restrictions: In January 2015, the United States won a trade enforcement victory against Argentina that involved its widespread restrictions on the importation of a range of U.S. goods. The restrictions by Argentina affected billions of dollars in U.S. exports, including energy products, electronics and machinery ...

China and Great Britain: The Diplomacy of Commercial Relations, 1860–1864 (1974) Fairbank, John King. Trade and diplomacy on the China coast: The opening of the treaty ports, 1842-1854 (Harvard UP, 1953), a major scholarly study; online; Gerson, J.J. Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British relations. (Harvard University Press, 1972) Gregory, Jack S.

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Washington, D.C. – A USTR-led interagency review has concluded that while Bangladesh has made progress over the last year to address fire and building safety issues in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector, further progress is needed, including to address serious worker rights issues, before reinstatement of Bangladesh's trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) can be ...

Congress Likely to Urge China to Raise Its Currency ... but not insignificant measure threatening China with punitive tariffs on its imports to the United States. ... remedies at the World Trade ...

In 2012, the WTO agreed with the United States that China's measures discriminate against U.S. suppliers. China has taken some steps to address the problems identified by the WTO, and the Administration continues to work with U.S. stakeholders and China to ensure American credit and debit card companies' fair access to China's market.

North Korea is dependent on trade and aid from China, although international sanctions against North Korea have decreased overall official volume of trade. Between 2000 and 2015, trade between the two countries grew over ten-fold, reaching a peak of $6.86 billion in 2014.

Argentinian exports to China have grown 10% over the last ten years, according to information divulged by Argentina's Foreign Affairs Ministry during a virtual meeting of the Argentine-Chinese Chamber. In addition, revenues from trade between the two countries has increased seven-fold compared to 2001, from US$2 billion a year, to the current ...

We urge the U.S. and EU to take active steps to hold China and other countries that employ trade-distorting policies to account. We also believe U.S.-EU cooperation should focus on new trade approaches to address climate change, including through development of effective carbon border adjustment measures."

The central bank said it would move to facilitate the purchase of Chinese Yuan against Argentine pesos for foreign trade operations. Argentina's central bank …

China isn't doing much to cool concerns about a trade war with the United States. "China would fight to the end to defend its own legitimate interests with …

China earned itself a reputation as the "world's factory" in the latter part of the 20th century. | REUTERS. The U.S. should urge China to get rid of unfair economic practices, but it would ...

Overcapacity in Steel: China's Role in a Global Pr oblem 5. The global steel sector is once again in a state. of overcapacity. China' s expansion of its steel. sector since 2000 has grown ...

Imports from Canadian lumber mills in certain provinces will be hit with anti-dumping duties ranging between 3.2 percent and 8.89 percent, and …

Section 232 measures delivered near-immediate benefits. Once implemented in 2018, such Sec. 232 steel import measures as 25% tariffs on imported steel and import quotas on select countries helped curb U.S. steel imports by 27% by 2019. Import penetration of the U.S. market fell to 26% of all steel consumed in the United States in 2019, from 35% ...

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take. Thought I would talk about the finger-pointing happening at China for these cyberattacks. This week it is all about China, and specifically the White House had this unusually strong statement, citing concerns about China's, what they call, irresponsible and destabilizing behavior in cyberspace, specifically talking about a hack against the Microsoft Exchange Server ...

Argentine exports to the Asian giant are mainly soy and petroleum products, while imports are mainly industrial and consumer goods. Modest Argentine surpluses with China turned into deficits in 2008, however, and anti-dumping measures enacted subsequently triggered a Chinese boycott of its top Argentine import, soy oil, in 2010. Following trade ...

What the U.S. faces with China is not a new Cold War but a contest unlike any it has known before, says Chas W. Freeman, Jr. By Chas W. Freeman, Jr ChasFreeman Five hundred years ago, Hernán ...

On September 2, 2019, China filed a third request for consultations against U.S. section 301 tariffs citing the same agreements and articles as DS543 and DS565WTO, "Dispute Settlement: The Disputes, United States—Tariff Measures on Certain Goods from China III, Request for Consultations by China: (DS587)" (accessed September 5, 2019).

Argentina mulls trade deal with China that could overhaul pork production. Argentina is nearing an initial trade agreement with China that could allow potential Chinese investments in local pork production. Reuters reports that the investments in Argentina's pork sector would be geared towards exports. According to Argentina's ...

China's industrial policies skew the playing field against imported goods and services and foreign manufacturers and services suppliers through an array of supporting measures. These measures include market access limitations, investment restrictions and massive subsidies that lead to severe and persistent excess capacity.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the only national trade association that represents all aspects of America's oil and natural gas industry. Our more than 600 corporate members, from the largest major oil company to the smallest of independents, come from all segments of …

04.05.17 Peters, Stabenow Urge President Trump to Keep Promise to Michigan Workers in Meeting with Chinese President Xi The Senators urged President Trump to hold China accountable for currency manipulation and other trade violations

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions colloquially known as lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, cordons sanitaires and similar societal restrictions) have been implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world. These restrictions were established to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes …

Total Germany-China trade had burgeoned to more than $200 billion by 2019, half of it passing through Hamburg. Scholz has credentials as a China enthusiast. He met with President Xi Jinping in 2017 when the Chinese leader attended the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg. As finance minister, he issued a personal invitation to Vice Premier Liu He to ...