China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Wednesday that it will impose provisional anti-dumping measures on cellulose pulp imported from the United States, Canada and Brazil. The preliminary ruling requires importers of the product to place deposits with Chinese customs ranging from 0.7 percent to 50.9 percent of the imports starting Thursday, depending on the dumping margin, said a MOC statement.

(VOV) - Vietnam and the European Union (EU) kick-started the fifth round of their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations in Hanoi on November 4.Head of the European Parliamentarian delegation Werner Largen said discussions will focus on the creation of an equal playing field for State and private businesses, intellectual property rights protection, geographical indication, and sustainable development.

China wasn’t happy when it was excluded from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but now that negotiations for the trade agreement led by the United States are set to conclude by year-end, China may be forced to make reforms in response to the potentially polarizing alliance, regardless of whether it plans to join the TPP.

Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen Danyang has confirmed that the third round of talks on the proposed tripartite free trade agreement (FTA) between China, Japan and South Korea, will be held on November 26-29, 2013, in Japan. He disclosed that, after further preparatory meetings held between the parties on October 22-23 that mainly covered the framework for discussing market access matters, the three countries agreed to hold the third round of FTA negotiations and expressed the hope that the agreement could be concluded as soon as possible.

PHILIPPINE Laws and regulations are hampering market access for US-made products, industry groups complained in comments solicited by Washington.

Japan notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat on October 30, 2013 that it has requested consultations with Ukraine over its safeguard measures on certain passenger cars. In April 2013 Ukraine's Inter-Departmental Commission for International Trade started to levy a 6.46 percent duty on imports of cars with a cylinder capacity of 1,000-1,500cm3, and a 12.95 percent duty on imports of cars with a cylinder capacity of 1,500-2,200cm3.

Nov 4 (Reuters) - The Faroe islands launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization on Monday to challenge a European Union ban on imports of Faroese herring and mackerel and restrictions on Faroese vessels entering EU ports. "The measures implemented by the EU are in clear contravention of basic provisions of the WTO Agreement," the office of Faroese Prime Minister Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen said in a statement.

Citing the complexity of the cases, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced on October 31st, 2013 that it will extend its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations of solar-grade polysilicon imports from the EU for another six months. MOFCOM began its anti-dumping investigation on November 1st, 2012, with a one-year deadline to complete the investigation but a provision for the six-month extension.

(Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to China, Japan and South Korea in the first week of December, a trip designed to emphasize the U.S. commitment to a policy pivot toward Asia. With events in the Middle East and domestic policy battles dominating President Barack Obama's attention in recent months, questions have emerged about the extent of Obama's commitment to this shift, particularly after the president canceled participation in two Asia-specific summits last month.

Indonesia has raised a lawsuit against the cold rolled sheet and galvanized steel sheet imports from Vietnam. Meanwhile, Thailand has sent a letter to the Vietnam Steel Association, warning about a possible lawsuit to be raised to protect the steel manufacturers in the country. As such, the warnings about the installation of non-tariff barriers to prevent steel products from Vietnam to enter South East Asian countries have nearly come true. The warnings have come true