Trade officials from countries belonging to the World Trade Organization have postponed a deal to eliminate tariffs on high-technology products. Officials from 55 WTO members, including Japan, the United States and China, have been trying to reach an agreement since May 2012. The negotiations stalled in November last year after China demanded exemptions for some products to protect its domestic industries.

HA NOI (VNS)  — Viet Nam has introduced a six-point proposal to boost economic and trade ties between Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Viet Nam (the CLMV bloc) and India. All parties were advised to minimise trade and investment barriers to promote the progress of businesses. The countries should also encourage their enterprises to take full advantage of their respective market access preferences, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai.

(VOV) - The eighth round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between Vietnam and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan took place on December 8-14 in the southern province of Kien Giang. The negotiation round was chaired by Minister of Industry and trade Vu Huy Hoang and  Minister in charge for Trade of Asia – Europe Economic Committee Andrei A. Slepnhev.

China has decided to establish 3 more pilot free-trade zones where financial and trade restrictions are substantially eased. China has liberalized capital transactions with other countries within defined areas to internationalize its currency. It has also lifted the ban on imports and domestic sales of video game consoles. The country's first pilot free-trade zone was launched in suburban Shanghai in September last year.

WASHINGTON — Last month, their faces beaming with self-congratulatory enthusiasm, President Obama and China’s president, Xi Jinping, announced an agreement to drop tariffs on a range of high-technology products, an accord that was supposed to propel far more significant trade talks in the weeks to come. On Friday in Geneva, those talks on technology trade collapsed in acrimony, a sign that China is still unwilling to open its markets to competition where it is most vulnerable.

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Two United States senators have threatened to try to block South Africa from a lucrative U.S.-Africa trade agreement if Pretoria doesn't lift import duties on cheaper cuts of chicken. South Africa has imposed "anti-dumping" tariffs since 2000 of above 100 percent on certain products derived from the chicken carcass.

The testimonies coming out of the anti-dumping hearings are horrendous, but what does the solar industry think? Peter Varadi, who founded the first solar company back in 1974, questions why the US would provoke a trade war with China on the basis of a petition from maybe a half-dozen companies. The Solar Energy Industries Association agrees. “The ongoing U.S. trade case was filed by a single company,” emailed John Smirnow, SEIA Vice President for Trade and Competitiveness.

The Association of Meat Importers and Exporters of SA (Amie) is calling on the government to urgently drop antidumping duties on US poultry as fears grow that SA might be excluded from trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa). Amie said on Thursday that SA needed the trade benefits of Agoa, and allowing US chicken imports fair and reasonable access to the local market would keep prices in check.

27 November, the World Trade Organization (WTO) took a major step towards implementing its first multilateral trade accord, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). This is good news for businesses and the world economy.

NEW DELHI: India's trade policy review at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is scheduled to be conducted in June 2015, Parliament was informed today. "A team from the WTO secretariat has visited the country recently from 19th-25th November 2014 to assess India's trade policies, mainly in lieu of the upcoming sixth Trade Policy Review (TPR) of India, scheduled to be held in June 2015, " Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.