The Indian government has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization WTO panel against European Commission EC facility of granting tariff preferences on textile products to Pakistan. The EC allowed tariff preferences on clothing to Pakistan in December 2001 under the EC Program of special arrangements to combat drug...
BANGKOK, Dec. 22 Kyodo Thailand's agriculture ministry believes Japan's new tariff scheme for imported rice shows Tokyo is trying to open its rice market further in line with World Trade Organization WTO rules, senior officials said Tuesday. Toshihiko Takemoto, director of policy and planning at Japan's Food Agency, briefed Thai...
BEIJING--China Mobile HK, the Hong Kong listed subsidiary of the China Mobile, based in Beijing, has received approval from the Ministry of Information Industry MII for its new tariff scheme. Currently, users pay a monthly fee of 50 yuan ( ...
Business Editors/High Tech Writers ATHENS, Greece--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 31, 2003 STET Hellas Telecommunications SA (NASDAQ: STHLY; Amsterdam: STHLS) today announced the launch of its new competitive bundled-minutes based tariff plans, offering 6 new competitive packages to cover the needs of the entire spectrum of the contract market segment. ...
MANILA, April 8 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers: THE MANILA TIMES - The Tariff Commission is set to recommend a list of products for inclusion in the early harvest scheme with China. - Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz yesterday batted...
At the negotiating table, demands for concession or a waive off on certain issues is bound to come from a participating party. It has been seen that despite pre-negotiation planning negotiators, often, struggle when it comes to handling concession demands. According to the paper ‘there is no one right strategy...
Having made huge investments in U.S. truck production, foreign producers are not about to leave even if the truck tariff is eliminated. After all, foreign carmakers continue to invest in new U.S. production facilities even though the duty on automobiles is only 2.5 percent. The bottom line is that car...
By Phusadee Arunmas, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10--Thailand is poised to vote against a proposal to cut to zero its import tariffs for industrial goods under the Asean Industrial Co-operation Aico scheme by early next year as proposed...
By Woranuj Maneerungsee, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 23--The European Union is seriously looking into reinstating tariff privileges on seafood imports, including shrimp from Thailand, under its new Generalised System of Preferences GSP to take effect in 2006,...
This paper presents new estimates of the average tariff on total and dutiable U.S. imports from 1790 to 1820. These previously unavailable series are comparable to the tariff figures available from 1821 in the Historical Statistics of the United States. These early tariffs were much lower, on average, than those...
By Woranuj Maneerungsee, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 27--While Thai beer exports to Singapore now attract no import duty, non-Asean suppliers have to pay 80 cents a litre. It's surprising how few Asean businessmen are aware of this ...
Recent research has suggested that the antebellum U.S. cotton textile industry would have been wiped out had it not received tariff protection. It reaffirms Taussig's judgment that the U.S. cotton textile industry was largely independent of the tariff by the 1830s. American and British producers specialized in quite different types...
TORONTO--BUSINESS WIRE--June 6, 1995--International Gold Resources (TSE:IGC) ("IGR") announced Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to expand its existing Ghana Joint Venture to include three new concession areas in Burkina Faso, namely the Poura Concession, the Youga Concession and the Tamberi Concession.Under the terms of the amending agreement...
This paper uses history to explore the empirical content of two determinants of tariff policy that have a long pedigree: the Stolper-Samuelson corollary to the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, and the infant-industry argument for protection. It reports a set of world tariff facts for the 150 years between 1789 and 1938 that...
"Untouchable?" Treatment of Tariff-Based Claims In the course of many bankruptcy cases, federal regulations requiring utilities to provide their services to the public pursuant to filed tariffs frequently raise the question of the scope of the bankruptcy court's jurisdiction to treat tariff-based claims asserted against the estate. This...
Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 17--The import tariff on copper cathode will be kept unchanged at 1 percent as any increase could have repercussions on the downstream industry, according to Industry Minister Pinit Charusombat. The cabinet recently...
A specific tariff determines the tariff at the border by placing the amount in relation to the quantity of the good imported; perhaps the tariff might be a certain amount of dollars per bottle of wine or a certain amount of Euro per ton of steel. These types of tariffs...
By Phusadee Arunmas, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 17--Longans and lychees will be the first two Thai fruit exports to enter Australia under the "early harvest" scheme of the Thai-Australia Free Trade Area agreement. Though the...
LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 11, 1995--Vanderbilt Gold Corp., a North American precious metals mining company, Wednesday announced that Vanderbilt's board of directors has approved the final purchase of 100% interest in the La Sierra Concession in Durango, Mexico.This concession on which Vanderbilt previously held an option to purchase has recently been...
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