By Eugene Vorotnikov, in Voronezh, Russia; and Keith Nuthall
The Russian government will fight an application by the European Union (EU) at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for permission to impose retaliatory trade sanctions worth €1.39 billion over Moscow’s ban on EU pork and pigs.
The EU will amend import rules for Chinese chicken after a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute panel sided against the European bloc in a trade quarrel that stretches back two years.
Russia has lost its appeal against a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling over its blanket ban on imports of pigs and pork products from the European Union (EU).
By Eugene Vorotnikov, in Voronezh, Russia; and Keith Nuthall
By the end of this month (September) the Russian government will appeal the recent ruling of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) opposing Russia’s swine fever-related ban on European Union (EU) exports of pigs, pigmeat and related products, according to...
China is upset with the US after it asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to check if China complied with a 2013 order to reform its anti-dumping duties on chicken broiler products.
The European Union (EU) has today (23 July) forced the creation of a disputes panel at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which will examine the legality under world trade law of Russia’s ban on imports of EU live pigs, pork and other pig products.
The International Meat Trade Association (IMTA) has welcomed the striking of a new global trade deal by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which should ease import and customs procedures that can slow the delivery of meat and livestock to export customers.
Russia’s accession into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its impact on the pork market will not stop the country’s major agricultural holdings from investing in huge pig production projects, according to experts.
Russian meat processing giant Cherkizovo has taken an “investment vacation” from pig projects, citing the sector’s uncertainty on the eve of Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The Brazil Poultry Association (UBABEF) has reasserted its determination to ask for World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations on an anti-dumping levy recently imposed by South Africa.
Russian pig farmers estimate that accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will cost the pork industry US$68.9m a year, as the country starts cutting Customs duties for pig and pork imports.
The European Union's banana import regime breaks international
trade laws and thereby damages US trade rights, said the World
Trade Organization (WTO) today.
The United States has requested the World Trade Organization (WTO)
to review the European Union's banana import regime, which it
claims is unfairly skewed against US banana suppliers.
Ministers from the European Union (EU), India, Brazil and the US
have begun five days of talks with the aim of finding some common
ground on which a Doha Round agreement can be built.
Government subsidies can be useful instruments in correcting market
failures and working towards social objectives but can also distort
trade, warned the WTO.
Syngenta's announcement of a 9 per cent sales increase last year
comes just days after the WTO ruled that the EU was wrong to bar
entry to GM crops and foods.
Sugar reform may yet hijack December's WTO talks as Australia,
Brazil and Thailand again accuse the EU of shirking its obligations
by planning to increase sugar exports by two million tonnes.
With just three weeks remaining until the Cancun meetings, the EU
and the US yesterday presented a joint framework to relaunch
agricultural negotiations. Focusing on three areas, domestic
support, market access and export competition,...
Trade friction between the European Commission and the United
States threatened to worsen yesterday as officials rejected
Washington's demand for an outright end to farm export subsidies
within a strict deadline.
Japan informed a dispute-settlement meeting at the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) this week that it had reached a final agreement
with the United States over changes to its quarantine system for
apples.
