Officials from Japan and the United States have yet to break the deadlock over bilateral issues in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks.

The largest merchant solar cell producer, Neo Solar Power (NSP) with 2.2GW of capacity in Taiwan has drawn-up contingency plans to potentially offset any negative outcome of preliminary rulings on the latest anti-dumping investigation in the US. Preliminary rulings countervailing duties are expected next week during one of the largest PV industry gatherings in Munich, Intersolar Europe, while anti-dumping rulings are expected next month.

The Secretariat of Economy (SE), Government of Mexico, has concluded an antidumping investigation and imposed a definitive antidumping duty on imports of synthetic fibre (man-made fibre or MMF) blankets from China.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed trade deal. There is a concerted effort by the White House and corporate lobbyists to keep the deal a secret, and there has been a shocking and disappointing lack of press coverage. This trade deal will offshore more American jobs, increase income inequality, raise medicine prices, threaten Internet freedom and undermine critical food, environmental and health safeguards. They want to activate Americans' anxieties about a rising Chine and then sell the as the counter to it.

(VOV) – US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker began a one-day visit to Vietnam on June 2 in a bid to accelerate Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiations.

(Reuters) - China has begun levying an anti-dumping tax on a chemical imported from the European Union and the United States, the Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday, the latest in a string of issues that could fuel rising trade tensions. Trade ties have been strained by a series of dumping disputes, including a major one involving solar materials between China and the European Union.

New Zealand mulls public interest test for anti-dumping penalties WELLINGTON, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government is weighing introducing a public interest test into its anti-dumping regime in a bid to help drive down costs in its housing market, Commerce Minister Craig Foss said Tuesday.

HA NOI (VNS)— Few Vietnamese exporters have applied for Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status, which would allow them to benefit from expedited customs procedures. Vice head of Post-Customs Clearance Examination Department under the Viet Nam General Administration of Customs Le Thu said that in 2011, Viet Nam started allowing certain businesses to be prioritised during customs procedures. These businesses would have to submit fewer documents to customs offices and undergo fewer tests and inspections.

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. trade panel voted Friday to extend antidumping and countervailing duties on light-walled rectangular pipes and tubes from four foreign countries after the first five-year review of the measures imposed initially in 2008.

On 29 April at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council summit in Minsk, where the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia discussed the future of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), it was announced that the agreement to establish the EEU would be signed on 29 May in Astana. This is a project that can be traced back to 1994, when the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, proposed creating a Eurasian union.