trade

Even as news of Japan’s trade deficit due to falling Asian exports trickled in and Asian companies slashed jobs across the board, APEC leaders decided the financial crisis would end by 2010, within 18 months.  Prudent or not,  the leaders decided to strike an optimistic note “We are convinced that we can overcome this crisis [...]
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While large emerging Asian countries jostled for greater say at the G20 summit last weekend, Prime ministers from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, met to discuss food and energy security and strengthening transport, trade and investment ties amongst themselves. The group, named after the region’s three major rivers met in Vietnam and forms the [...]
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If China lifts the steel export tax of 5 percent proposed from December 1, the move could severely affect the steel industry in emerging Asia, especially India, warn industry insiders.
China, which is the world’s largest steel market, is mooting to drop steel export prices in a bid to boost the local steel industry which has [...]
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Hu JinTao is welcome to bring cash, but if he has any White Rabbit candy in his carry-on luggage he’ll have to eat them before the plane lands in Washington for the G20 summit on Nov15.  
The NYTimes wrote about new product testing in the 11/13 edition, titled F.D.A. Detains Chinese Imports for Testing:
Candy, snacks, cereal [...]

following my earlier post on reports that traffic at the Canton fair was off significantly, here is a CCTV report which provides more details.  There are other articles at FT,China Stakes, IHT, Washington Post, and others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcRtX-f83RY
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With bilateral trade between India and China escalating beyond the 2010 target of US$40 billion this year, amidst the global crisis, senior officials in the Indian commerce department are worried that excess stocks of mass produced Chinese goods, might wash up on Indian shores.
Recently, an Indian manufacturer of Penicillin-G - Alembic Ltd, demanded an [...]
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