Montevideo (AFP) May 21, 2014 - Twenty-eight African immigrants were held in slavery on a China-flagged fishing vessel off the coast of Uruguay where they were beaten and forced to work without pay, attorneys said Wednesday. The migrants, 24 of whom were from Sierra Leone and the rest from Ghana, said they had not been paid "a penny" since boarding the ship seven months ago. They were initially divided...
CBP has announced new partnerships with FDA, FWS and NMFS which aim to increase their efforts in keeping US imports and borders safe at the Import Safety Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (CTAC). Continue reading → ...
Integration Point teamed up with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to bring you the latest updates on CBP’s Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program. Here are the answers to your questions asked during the webcast. Continue reading → ...
American Shipper is asking all importers and exporters to assist with their upcoming Benchmark studies by completing online surveys for imports and exports. Continue reading → ...
Is your company looking to enter the China market and need to understand Tariff Classifications, or are you already there and need help? Continue reading → ...
Washington (AFP) May 20, 2014 - In choosing a major escalation with China over cyber-espionage, the United States has laid bare its frustrations after years of hoping the Asian power would accept a US-led international order. President Barack Obama and his predecessors have long recited a mantra that the United States welcomes China's rise but wants it to join a "rules-based order" and take a greater...
Yangon (AFP) May 19, 2014 - Activists have kidnapped two Chinese workers at a China-backed copper mine in Myanmar and are threatening to harm them, their firm said Monday, in the latest eruption of tensions over the controversial project. China's Wanbao, which operates the Letpadaung mine in the northwestern town of Monywa, said the activists holding the two 23-year-old contractors were demanding...
Washington DC (UPI) May 14, 2014 - Economic inequality has emerged as the central political challenge of the 21st Century. Left wing academics and politicians are quick with quack remedies -- higher taxes on the wealthy that will only send more investment abroad and smother growth. For most Americans, good-paying jobs are scarce, and many feel powerless to improve their lot. Yet, for those at the...
Beijing (AFP) May 14, 2014 - Chinese authorities have accused a top GlaxoSmithKline executive of ordering employees to commit bribery, following a 10-month probe into the embattled British drugmaker, state media said on Wednesday. Police in the central city of Changsha said Mark Reilly, GSK's former head of China operations, had "pressed his sales teams to bribe hospitals, doctors and health institutions"...
Hanoi (AFP) May 15, 2014 - Anti-China riots at a steel plant in Vietnam left one Chinese worker dead and 100 injured, officials said Thursday, as unrest triggered by an escalating territorial dispute spreads across the communist country. Beijing's deployment of a deep-water drilling rig in contested waters has sparked the worst anti-China backlash in Vietnam in decades, with protests in major cities...
Washington (AFP) May 15, 2014 - The outbreak of deadly anti-China protests in Vietnam raises the stakes for the United States, which has rallied behind Beijing's neighbors but faces ugly new realities. Demonstrations have spread to a third of Vietnam's provinces, with workers attacking Chinese workers and factories, in a wave of nationalist outrage after Beijing moved a deep-water drilling rig into...
Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2014 - China has evacuated more than 3,000 of its nationals from Vietnam following a wave of deadly anti-Beijing unrest, state media said Sunday, as Vietnamese civil society groups called for renewed demonstrations in several cities. The Xinhua news agency said the evacuees included 16 nationals who were "critically injured" in the worst anti-China violence in Vietnam in decades...
Paris (AFP) May 18, 2014 - Grains, metals, meat: these are just three of the commodities being sucked in by the voracious Chinese economy which is set to be the key driver on raw materials markets this year. French commodity research specialist Cyclope in a report published this week argues that "in the coming months, global markets will feel even the slightest sneeze from China". World commodity...
Geneva (AFP) May 18, 2014 - Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to introduce the world's highest minimum wage, which would have guaranteed every worker in one of the world's priciest nations at least $25 an hour. A proposal to introduce a minimum wage so high it could pass for mid-management pay elsewhere, was rejected by 76,3 percent of Swiss voters. A series of referendums in Switzerland...
The Australian wine industry raises its glass as it receives a much needed competitive boost from its free trade agreement (FTA) with Japan. Continue reading → ...
Signed 08 April 2014 at a meeting in Seoul, KAFTA is set to help South Korean car makers compete in the Australian market by cutting tariffs on car imports to 5 percent within the next three years. Continue reading → ...
Hanoi (AFP) May 13, 2014 - Thousands of workers staged a protest at an industrial park in southern Vietnam Tuesday over China's deployment of a drilling rig in contested waters, damaging factories and offices, official media said. Photos posted on the official news site of the Ministry of Information showed what appeared to be extensive damage to a Taiwanese factory that was apparently mistaken for...
Geneva (AFP) May 13, 2014 - The Swiss are expected to reject a referendum next weekend on whether to introduce the world's highest minimum wage, that would offer each and every worker at least $25 an hour. Switzerland will also hold votes on May 18 on a multi-billion-dollar deal to buy fighter jets from Sweden, which is on a knife-edge, and measures to ban paedophiles from working with children, which...
On 14 April, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found regulations from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requiring the disclosure of the use of conflict minerals in consumer products unconstitutional. Continue reading → ...
Global Trade News has taken the information that we have gathered over the last month from governments around the world, and compiled it into a monthly summary, posted here for you. Continue reading → ...