India’s directorate general of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) plans to lodge an anti-dumping lawsuit against plastics processing machines and injection moulding machines imported from the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam. The lawsuit was prompted by a petition from the Plastics Machinery Manufacturers Association of India, according to the Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA).

The European Union (EU) has agreed to omit three of Japan’s biggest rail companies from an international trade agreement in the hope that it will open up the Japanese market to European suppliers. Under the proposal, the EU will lift its objection to delisting JR East, Central and West, which represent around 60 per cent of the Japanese market according to the European Rail Industry Association (UNIFE), from a World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement which governs public sector procurement.

China has promised to repeal the newly introduced tariff on Australia coal imports once a free trade agreement between the two countries is finalised. Treasurer Joe Hockey met with Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei in Beijing today ahead of the APEC Finance Minister’s meeting tomorrow. China made the surprise move a fortnight ago to introduce levies of 3 per cent on coking coal and 6 per cent on thermal coal for countries with which it did not hold an FTA.

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker is urging Japan to be bolder in opening its markets to help reach a deal on a pan-Pacific trade agreement. Pritzker, who is leading the Commerce Department's first trade mission to Japan in two decades, said Tuesday that U.S. and Japanese negotiators were closing the gap on trade in farm goods and vehicles but that there were still "tough issues" to work on.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung told visiting US Trade Representative Michael Froman in Hanoi on Tuesday that National Assembly strongly supports negotiations to reach the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement between Vietnam and the US to meet the aspirations of the two peoples.

South Korea has reaffirmed that next month's meeting of G20 leaders in Brisbane is a critical opportunity to finalise its free trade agreement with Australia. One of South Korea's top trade officials has nominated the G20 summit as a "psychological and physical" deadline for the nation's legislators to approve the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA) domestically.

New Zealand business leaders and executives are calling for the nation to conclude a greater number of free trade agreements, with 81 percent identifying that new agreements would provide substantial opportunities for growth.

Hong Kong expects to have a free trade agreement with Asean economies in place by 2016, government officials said yesterday as they sketched out a timeline for progress on trade talks that began in July. Gregory So Kam-leung, secretary for commerce and economic development, said that he expects all of the six rounds of negotiations for the free trade agreements between Hong Kong and Asean countries to be completed by 2016. The first round of talks was held in July, So added.

GENEVA, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) announced on Monday afternoon that a panel is to be established to probe into the dispute between the European Union(EU) and Russia on anti-dumping duties imposed by the latter on Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) from Germany and Italy. The EU brought the case before the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body in May this year, having requested consultations with Russia over the levy of anti-dumping duties on goods at issue.

(Reuters) - The United States faces potential trade sanctions from Canada and Mexico after the World Trade Organization ruled on Monday it had failed to bring its meat labeling regulations fully in line with international fair trading rules. The WTO said the United States had not done enough to change its labeling rules, requiring retailers such as grocery stores to list the country of origin on meat, after it lost an earlier WTO challenge.