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Cambodian Garments Record 7 Percent Growth in Exports [18 Feb 2009]  
Garments, the backbone of Cambodian exports were able to register 7 percent growth in 2008 to $3.15bn from its previous year. Even in 2008, the US continued to be the largest market for Cambodian garm  ...More
Tags: garments     exports     garments industry    
Iran and Serbia Move towards FTA [09 Mar 2009]  
During a meeting with the Iranian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Mladjan Dinkic stated that both countries had good and stable bilateral  ...More
Tags: economic     trade     serbian exports    
China Records Worst Export Slump– Recovery Bleak till Fourth Quarter [12 Mar 2009]  
Despite initiating various measures to boost exports, China has been pushed to the wall on the export front with no signs of recovery in the short term. China, the third largest economy and manufactur  ...More
Tags: export     china    
The US Truck Ban Receives Retribution from Mexico with Higher Tariffs on its Goods [17 Mar 2009]  
The Economy Secretary of Mexico Gerardo Ruiz Mateos stated they would impose higher tariffs on 90 items from the US in retaliation to the last week’s truck ban. The hike in tariffs and the list of goo  ...More
Tags: US     US Truck Ban     Economy Secretary of Mexico    
While Majority Sectors Flatten Out, Indian Pharma Exports to Maintain Growth [06 Apr 2009]  
Findings of a survey conducted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) indicate a large majority of export industries of the country will be recording either negative or  ...More
Tags: india pharma     pharma     pharma exports    
Canada FTA with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland in Force as Planned [30 Apr 2009]  
The Canadian Minister of International Trade, Stockwell Day has declared the FTA with the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland would com  ...More
Tags: canada     export     FTA    
Iran’s Non-Oil Exports Witness Threefold Increase to Latin American Markets [07 May 2009]  
Deputy Head of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization Babak Afqahi stated that Iran’s non-oil exports had increased by threefold to the South American region in the last four years. He said government’s  ...More
Tags: iran     oil exports     american markets    
India and Pakistan to Export Wheat Following Bumper Harvest [19 May 2009]  
The high yield of wheat this season in India and Pakistan has prompted them to allow the grain to be exported from this month onwards. Both countries riding high on the bumper harvest will be exportin  ...More
Tags: India     Pakistan     wheat export    
Recession Impacted the UK Defence Exports despite Claims of No. 2 in 2008 [15 Jun 2009]  
In spite of claims of second place in the world on defense equipment export for 2008 and a 17 percent share of the global market, Britain’s defense exports fell marginally over the last five years’ av  ...More
Tags: recession     UK defence exports    
Pakistani Exporters to be Further Choked with the New Tax Regime [15 Jun 2009]  
Pakistani exporters besides the political instability sparked off by several terror attacks across the country will have to survive another scare of a new bill which has been proposed to end the presu  ...More
Tags: Pakistani exporters     bill    
Venezuela, a One-time Coffee Exporter Turns Importer [23 Jul 2009]  
Venezuela’s dismal harvest in 2008-09 has placed one of the coffee-dependent nations in terms of production and consumption to look out for supplies from outside for the first time after independence.  ...More
Tags: Venezuela     Coffee Export    
China Set to Become the Largest Exporter [24 Jul 2009]  
The WTO chief economist Patrick Low stated the European economy’s poor performance would make Germany lose its largest exporter tag to China soon. He made such a remark while he was speaking at a two-  ...More
Tags: China     China export     WTO    
India and Nigeria to Streamline Pharma Exports [03 Aug 2009]  
India is expected to sign pharma deals with Nigeria, the country’s largest trading partner from Africa to reclaim and boost the pharmaceutical exports after fake ‘Made in India’ drugs originating fro  ...More
Tags: India     Nigeria     Pharma Exports    
Iranian Exports to Ecuador Soar [12 Aug 2009]  
According to the Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) of Iran, the country’s non-oil exports to Ecuador have witnessed remarkable growth during the past four years; from less than $1mn in 2005 they have  ...More
Tags: Iran     TPO     non-oil exports    
New Mexico Gov Calls the Trade Mission to Cuba Productive [26 Aug 2009]  
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson after meeting up with the top political and trade representatives of Cuba to promote agri-business has stated the exchanges among them were ‘very positive’. Richard  ...More
Tags: New Mexico     Cuba     agriculture    
Japanese Morning Banana Diet Lifts Filipino Exports [08 Sep 2009]  
A sudden rise in banana consumption in Japan owing to the Morning Banana Diet (MBD) designed by Hitoshi Watanabe and wife Sumiko to lose weight in last September has significantly helped the Philippin  ...More
Tags: Japan     exports     PBGEA     JPEPA     MBD    
Poor Agri-Infrastructure Fail Nigerian Fruit Exports [16 Sep 2009]  
Lack of sustainable infrastructure to support farm products in Nigeria has caused inadequate supply of fruits in the market during the month of Ramadan despite having large farmlands. Nigerian fruit t  ...More
Tags: Nigeria     Fruit Exports     FAO    
New Shipping Invention to Empower Fruit Exporters [04 Nov 2009]  
Fruits can now reach farther markets as a leading shipping company has introduced StarCare, a new generation of Controlled Atmosphere (CA) containers which would preserve the fruits from ripening and  ...More
Tags: CA    fruit exporter    food market    StarCare    
US Exports to North Korea Impacted by Trade Embargo [17 Nov 2009]  
The vexed US-North Korea ties have adversely affected the US exports to Korea by almost nothing in comparison to previous year. In response to a second nuclear test on May 25 this year by North Korea,  ...More
Tags: US Export    North Korea    trade    Pyongyang    South Korean    
Developing Nations barring China Joint Hands to Cut Tariff [03 Dec 2009]  
The trade representatives from 22 nations of developing and emerging economies at the sidelines of the three-day WTO ministerial meet have signed an accord to reduce industrial tariffs. According to t  ...More
Tags: China    WTO    MERCOSUR    India    Mexico    Morocco    GDP    
Russia to Lead Gas Exporters – Reinforces its Position [10 Dec 2009]  
Leonid Bokhanovsky, a board member and the first vice president of the leading engineering-construction company Stroitransgaz of Russia has been chosen as the General Secretary of the Gas Exporting Co  ...More
Tags: Russia    GECF    gas exports    Iran    India    
EU Phyto Sanitary Recognition to Boost Mexican Exports [15 Dec 2009]  
The EU has recognized Mexico’s SENASICA as a regulatory authority of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS). The SENASICA or the National Service for Animal Health, Food Safety, and Agricultural an  ...More
Tags: Eu    Mexico    SENASICA    SPS    PROTLCUEM    FTA    
Iran Sends Team to Scout for More Business in Iraq [16 Dec 2009]  
A trade delegation from Iran headed by the director of the provincial trade organization in Tehran Seyyed Ali Mousavi has arrived in Baghdad to improve trade ties with its Iraqi counterparts. This is  ...More
Tags: Iran    Iraq    business    trade    non oil exports    
Philippines Will Adopt Aus Halal Model to Boost Meat Exports [02 Jan 2010]  
The Philippines will be aiming for a larger share of the global halal market worth $150bn by adopting the Australian standards on halal products. The government and the industry have taken such a deci  ...More
Tags: Philippines    ISO    NMIS    Export    Australia    
Myanmar Will Bring China and India Closer by Reopening Old Route [13 Jan 2010]  
According to sources, Myanmar has agreed to honour a long standing need of the region by re-opening the Stilwell Road to facilitate trade among China, India and Myanmar. At the recently concluded 5th  ...More
Tags: Myanmar    China    India    fruit    grain    vegetable    textile    
China Acts by welcoming More Indian Goods [21 Jan 2010]  
The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gave assurance to the visiting Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma that his country would do everything to iron out trade imbalances with India. New Delhi  ...More
Tags: China    Indian goods    China export    India    
EU Aims to Tide over WTO Ceiling on Sugar Exports [22 Jan 2010]  
In the wake of repeated requests from International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE) and other sugar agencies of Europe to export surplus sugar, the EU as a ‘matter of urgency’ is plannin  ...More
Tags: EU    WTO    sugar exports    CIBE    Europe    India    Brazil    
Online Exporter Guide from ITC to Mainly Aid Africa [23 Jan 2010]  
The International Trade Centre (ITC) has launched a comprehensive, interactive trilingual online version of its Cotton Exporter’s Guide as an outreach to improve the skills and abilities of developing  ...More
Tags: online exporter    cotton exporter’s guide    ITC    UNCTAD    
Russia to be Less Reliant on Food Imports [08 Feb 2010]  
According to RIA Novosti, the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev has approved a plan to boost domestic food production and reduce the country's dependence on imports. Russia plans to enhance its foo  ...More
Tags: Russia    food imports    grain export    India    China    
UK Staple Food Shifts to French, Indian and Mexican Ones [09 Feb 2010]  
The British bread that donned the role of ubiquitous easy-carry meal to an industrialized world is giving way to a variety of food items like the French croissants, the Indian Chapattis and the Mexica  ...More
Tags: UK    food    India    Mexico    New York    
US-Mexico Truck Dispute Enters Hope Highway [10 Feb 2010]  
A meeting between two top government representatives from the US and Mexico suggests the Obama administration’s revocation of the pilot program will be lifted soon to end the one year old trade spat.  ...More
Tags: US    Mexico    economy    NAFTA    agriculture    
Kenya Takes Over Sri Lanka as Largest Tea Exporter [25 Feb 2010]  
In the latest data provided by the Tea Board of Kenya indicate that the country has usurped the throne of Sri Lanka for the first time as the biggest tea exporter in the world. While Kenya exported 34  ...More
Tags: Kenya    Sri Lanka    tea export    UAE    
UK Illicit Pharma Exports to Expand If Gov Actions Fail [09 Mar 2010]  
The recent emergency meeting summoned by the UK Health Minister Mike O'Brien with the trade bodies to condemn and act against the parallel drug trade may become a lip service if the government fails t  ...More
Tags: UK    pharma export    NHS    drug    
EU Embarrassed by Report on Exports of Torture Equipment [18 Mar 2010]  
The EU which insists on stringent enforcement of human rights in every trade deal has found itself cornered by the recent jointly released report by Amnesty International and the Omega Research Founda  ...More
Tags: EU    export    Belgium    Cyprus    Italy    Finland    Malta    
Canadians Urge Export Ban and Human Right Status for Water [24 Mar 2010]  
On the World Water Day, the Canadians have brought up the long pending issue of water regulation and export ban before Prime Minister Stephen Harper to prevent the country being wiped out of limited f  ...More
Tags: Canada    export    UN    water    
India Scales up Vegetable Exports by 70 Percent [19 Apr 2010]  
In a data presented by Minister of State for Commerce and Industry of India, Jyotiraditya M Scindia concluded that country’s vegetable exports are showing stupendous growth since last year. According  ...More
Tags: India    vegetable    export    APEDA    EICDGI&S    FTP    
Pak Engineering Sector Aims to Step-up Exports by Gov Backup [30 Apr 2010]  
Pakistan’s Engineering sector has urged its government to have a bifocal approach on its export strategies instead of solely relying on textiles. A workshop on National Engineering Exports Development  ...More
Tags: NEEDS    textile    EDB    
Viet Nam Eyes Robust Myanmar Market [15 Jul 2010]  
The Viet Nam Ambassador to Myanmar feels that Myanmar has all the trappings of providing big returns for investments ranging from mining, forestry management, agriculture and aquaculture to telecommun  ...More
Tags: Myanmar     Viet Nam     Vietnam     Trade     Export    
Indo-Pak Ties - The Chokepoint for Indian Exports to Afghan [19 Jul 2010]  
The trade treaty signed on Sunday between Pakistan and Afghanistan has become a major embarrassment to the visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the deal conspicuously disallows Indian exp  ...More
Tags: Indo-Pak     Afghan     Exports     Clinton     Commerce    
Investment Threshold Makes Ghana No Entry for Businesses [30 Aug 2010]  
An analysis on investments in Ghana finds that an old law is restricting foreign investments to that country as it prescribes unreasonable minimum investment limit while leaving out domestic ones from  ...More
Tags: Ghana     ECOWAS     Nigeria     Exports     Africa    
China Opens Trade Show with Equalitarian Investment Outlook [08 Sep 2010]  
The Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping officially launched the annual international fair by raising a symbolic "golden key" to open the exhibition hall at Xiamen in the southeast Fujian Province. At th  ...More
Tags: China     Xi Jinping     CIFIT     WTOGPA    
Salvador Takes Diplomatic Route to Resolve Dominican Export Ban [23 Sep 2010]  
Two senior ministers from El Salvador are touring the Dominican Republic in order to address problems related to the exports with the Caribbean country. The Salvadoran Ministers of Economy, Hector Dad  ...More
Tags: El Salvador     Economy     Dominican Export     Ban    
Monaco Devises programs to Garner Indian Travel Market share [26 Nov 2010]  
The tourism department of Monaco in collaboration with the Indian respective office has concluded five-day long programs including road shows at the two major cities of India to promote Monaco as a pr  ...More
Tags: Rolex Masters    Monaco    Grand Prix    F1    India Tourism    
Small Biz Sat Debuts in US to Beat Click Buying and Chain Stores [30 Nov 2010]  
The American Express’s initiative to aid local small businesses to compete with online and chain stores with the slogan of Small Business Saturday on 27 Nov has shown new direction in sales. To stop e  ...More
Tags: American Express     Black Friday     Cyber Monday     SME    
Georgian Fir Cone Pickers Get Safe Deal in X-mas Tree Drive [23 Dec 2010]  
The ubiquitous Nordmann fir trees which don most European houses during Christmas are undergoing a major change in their sourcing practice, that risked many fir cone pickers lives for a pittance in th  ...More
Tags: Georgia    X-mas    Christmas tree    Tree Sales    Denmark    
Malawi Exports to EU Record Growth – Imports from EU Decline [19 Jan 2011]  
According to the Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, Malawi’s exports to the bloc has increased by 7.4 percent in the first nine months of 2010. On the contrary, the EU’s earnings from trade with M  ...More
Tags: Malawi    EU    Germany    UK    France    Imports    Exports    
Ripple Effect of Cote D’Ivoire Politics to make Chocolates Dearer [25 Jan 2011]  
The electoral dispute between Alassane Ouattra, the internationally recognised winner of Cote d’Ivoire’s presidential election and Laurent Gbagbo, his election rival who has refused to relinquish the  ...More
Tags: UN     Ivory Coast     Cote d’Ivoire     ECOWAS     Cocoa Exports    
SMEs seek GST implementation, uniform VAT rates [07 Feb 2011]  
IIA an apex body of Micro, small and medium enterprises has sought GST implementation and uniform VAT rates across all states.

Here are the key demands:

Government proposes to introdu  ...More
Tags: IIA    Empowered Committee    SAT    Turn over tax    Surcharge    Additional Surcharge    
Govt implements measures to reduce export transaction costs [09 Feb 2011]  
The government has implemented some significant measures to reduce transaction costs for exporters - a move based on the report of a task force formed to look after the issue exclusively.

Union  ...More
Tags: Scindia    Industry Service Tax rate    Foreign Trade    
India, Japan sign FTA for 10 years [16 Feb 2011]  
Japan and India signed Wednesday a bilateral free trade agreement that would abolish duties on more than 90 percent of trade for 10 years.

Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and Indian Com  ...More
Tags: economic cooperation    trade and investment    Japanese exports    
Food prices push 44m into poverty: World Bank [17 Feb 2011]  
Rising food prices have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June, the World Bank warned.

Food costs are continuing to rise to near 2008 levels, when  ...More
Tags: World Bank    Food Price Index    food inflation    anti-poverty    
Global coffee exports hit record 103.1 mn bags [28 Nov 2011]  
World coffee exports rose by 9 per cent to a record 103.1 million bags in the 2010-11 coffee years, but shipments in September were down by almost 15 per cent at 7.04 million bags, the International C  ...More
Tags: Global Coffee Exports    
Exporters get Rs 900 crore relief package [28 Nov 2011]  
The government on Thursday announced a Rs 900-crore package for exporters to help them tide over the slowdown in developed markets and rising input costs. RBI has already announced interest subsidy of  ...More
Tags: Exporters get Rs 900 crore relief package    
Indian apparel exports grow 20 percent to 13.5 billion dollars [11 May 2012]  
AHMEDABAD: Rupee depreciation has bailed out Indian apparel exporters who were unsure of growth following weak consumer sentiment. The final figures are not yet in, but India expects to close the fisc  ...More
Tags: Indian apparel exports    
Textile exports estimated at 34 billion dollars during fiscal year 2011-2012 [16 May 2012]  
NEW DELHI: The government today said the country's textiles exports are estimated at USD 34 billion during the 2011-12 fiscal. "Textiles exports for the year 2011-12 are projected at USD 34 billion,"  ...More
Tags: Textile exports    
Asia braces for weaker exports as Europe stumbles [15 Jun 2012]  
SINGAPORE: After supplying European customers for more than 40 years with neon bright ornamental fish, Shirley Lim is now looking elsewhere for sales.

Lim, whose business in Singapore and Malay  ...More
Tags: Asia Europe exports    
China says can meet 2012 exports target [26 Jun 2012]  
BEIJING: China's trade ministry sought to dispel worries about slowing economic growth on Tuesday by saying exports are likely to pick up in coming months and the country can meet its 10 per cent expo  ...More
Tags: China 2012 exports target    
Textile companies seek Rs 12000 crore debt recas [28 Jul 2012]  
KOLKATA: The textile industry will put forward 290 cases involving Rs 12,000 crore of debt restructuring to the department of financial services this week. These 290 cases involve spinning, weaving an  ...More
Tags: Textile companies    
Apple drags Galaxy Note II to patent lawsuit [26 Nov 2012]  
Apple Inc. sought to add infringement claims over six more Samsung Electronics Co. products including the Galaxy Note II to its multi billion-dollar patent lawsuit against the South Korea based compan  ...More
Tags: Apple Galaxy patent lawsuit    
Tax Beware- US mulling Taxing of Online Purchases [29 Apr 2013]  
If you were too much into Physics in your formative years, you might have heard the famous Newtonian axiom 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'.

The US Government seems t  ...More
Tags: Tax Beware    
Yuan Sees a High- Chinese Exporters Not Happy. [20 May 2013]  
Last week, the People’s Bank of China pegged the Yuan at 6.1980 against the US Dollar, the highest number that the Yuan has achieved in the last 19 years. While this development shows the rising power  ...More
Tags: Yuan chinese exporters