The United States and European Union are launching a World Trade Organization case against China over its export restrictions on raw materials, officials announced on Tuesday.

Taiwan officially opens doors to Chinese investment eTaiwan News Chinese funds are not allowed to enter the monopoly industries such as water, electricity and fuel suppliers, or business sectors that play a key role in ... and more »

BEIJING, June 30 (UPI) -- Two recent developments help to understand how China's growing stature in global trade will determine the future of the intensifying scramble among major players for the world's valuable resources.

Sri Lanka on Tuesday granted Chinese companies a separate economic zone on the island which has just ended nearly four decades of ethnic bloodshed.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The National Agro-forestry and Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad) has sent an official letter to the Chinese side, providing a list of fruit-growing areas, fruit-packaging establishments and exporters of five types of fruit to China .

A preliminary survey indicates that mechanical and electrical products have been granted the most full export tax rebates according to a report by "China Taxation News." Industry insiders believe that a full export tax rebate should be implemented for most products. There are 2,500 types of mechanical and electrical products with tax ID numbers, and 1,771 or 70 percent of which have been granted ...

When the U.S. Senate last February introduced a clause requiring the purchase of U.S.-made steel and iron in Washington's $787 billion stimulus package, the Chinese government decried the "Buy American" measure as a dangerous step toward trade protectionism, stressing that Beijing would not respond in kind. "We won't practice Buy China," Vice Commerce Minister Jiang Zengwei vowed, according to ...

China waits to see whether Obama will be more aggressive about "421 safeguards" cases than Bush.

&$ &$Abolishing provisional export tariffs on grain products will stabilize overseas market demand&$ &$ Starting from July 1, 2009, China will abolish the special export tariff on some fertilizer products including yellow phosphorus, phosphate ore, synthetic ammonia, phosphoric acid, ammonium chloride, triple superphosphate and binary compound fertilizer. Meanwhile, the provisional export tariff ...