Paraguay Soy Crushers Plead for Duty-Free Imports to Stay Open
Paraguay’s oilseed processors are lobbying the government to allow duty-free soybean imports for the first time in order to keep their mills running as a drought slashes local production. Read…
Gibson: Free trade face imperiled future
Free trade has been getting a bad name. The political landscape that has supported free trade for decades, however, has shifted significantly in recent years, and not only in the United…
India Prohibiting Drone Imports Effectively Blocks China’s DJI
India banned the import of drones, a move that effectively blocks an emerging market for China’s SZ DJI Technology Co., the world’s top dronemaker, and encourages a nascent local industry…
WTO Largely Sides With South Korea Over Trump’s Washer Tariffs
The World Trade Organization said the U.S. violated international trade obligations in the way it imposed tariffs almost four years ago on South Korean exports of residential washing machines, according…
CPA Applauds Passage of House China Competition Bill
The bill, Import Security and Fairness Act (H.R. 6412), will narrow an import loophole, known as de minimis, that is used by non-market economies and counterfeiters to ship hundreds of…
Canada Lumber Set to Pay Less U.S. Duties as Trade Spat Drags On
The U.S. is setting duties on Canadian softwood lumber that would effectively lower the punitive tariffs on most producers as the long-simmering trade dispute drags on. Average preliminary anti-dumping and countervailing…
Key takeaways from China’s tariff victory over U.S. at WTO
From 2010 to 2020, there were 759 anti-dumping and 159 countervailing investigations launched against China, data showed. Among them, 87 anti-dumping and 81 countervailing investigations were filed by the United…
WTO Grants China a $645 Million Tariff Weapon Against U.S.
On Wednesday, a WTO arbitrator in Geneva said China can retaliate against $645 million worth of annual American exports as part of a decade-old trade dispute over U.S. anti-subsidy duties…
In 2021, Biden Didn’t Meet Free Traders’ Already-Low Expectations
As if Biden’s continuation of Trump’s trade policies wasn’t bad enough, there are at least three areas where he’s probably been even worse. Perhaps most surprisingly, Biden has expressly rejected…
Time Biden team turned rhetoric into action on trade agreements
Many countries that rely on the Chinese market have long had to swallow China’s conditions regarding trade and investment. For example, the Chinese authorities often require foreign firms making direct…