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Editorial Comment: Anti-anti-dumping

European Union trade officials have rejected a plan to extend the ‘anti-dumping’ duties levied on shoe imports from China and Vietnam. The episode points up the opaque and arbitrary nature of EU trade laws

EU struggles to stamp on shoe dumping

European Commission is struggling to secure enough support among member states for a controversial plan to extend ‘anti-dumping’ duties against imported Chinese and Vietnamese footwear

EU and Russian executives fear protectionism

Business leaders warn that rising trade barriers, imposed in response to the global economic crisis, threaten economic relations between the European Union and Russia

Deal nears to end ‘banana wars’

European and Latin American trade officials are close to a deal over bananas that would end the longest-running dispute in the history of the World Trade Organisation and could lead to lower prices for consumers

Mandelson steps back from Asian shoe duties

Extending anti-dumping duties against footwear from China and Vietnam risks Europe’s long-term commercial relations with both countries, the UK business secretary has warned

EU and India to establish free trade by 2010

EU officials said they would push hard for a bilateral free trade agreement with India at the one-day summit in New Delhi but Indian ministers were more cautious

EU rules ease cross-border payments

Transferring money and paying bills across Europe should become simpler and faster under new payment rules that come into effect on Sunday

Sri Lanka gets time on garment export threat

A suspension would mark the first time the EU has taken such action against one of the 16 poor countries using GSP Plus, leading to heated debate about the merits of linking trade with human rights issues

Editorial Comment: Tigers and trade

Trade restrictions are a legitimate means to isolate the most vile abusers of human rights, particularly when an authoritarian government controls the country. That is not the case in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka faces EU trade loss

The impending loss of trade concessions worth more than $100m comes after a Brussels probe found it in breach of the human rights commitments it had made in exchange for lower tariffs

Editorial: Subsidy abuse

EU buoyed by draft South Korea trade deal

Asian shoe test for EU trade commissioner

Shoe dispute presents EU with tough test

EU antitrust abuse action in doubt

Lex: Oracle / Sun Microsystems

Eurozone shows its strength in a crisis

Sofia moves to curb corruption

Brussels to pore over Magna deal

EU urged to ease China trade stance

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