Int＇i fair for investment and trade ready to open

The 13th China International Fair for Investment and Trade （CIFIT） is ready to open on September 6 and expected to attract about 13,000 overseas businessmen.     

Int＇l agricultural fair in riot-hit Urumqi draws 110,000 visitors

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Made-in-China Wooden FloorBoard Favored on Int＇l Market

High quality, domes-tic-madewoodenfloor boards are selling well on the international market.     

China＇s Net Int＇l Investment Position Hit $662 bln

China＇s net international investment position （IIP） at the end of 2006 surged 57% from a year earlier, according to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange （SAFE）.     

China Int＇I Fair for Investment Trade Opens

China International Fair for Investment and Trade（CIFIT） the 11th of the kind.opened recently,as Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi used a symbolic key to open a door to a hall at the main venue of CIFIT,where diverse rounds of business talks will be carried out.[第一段]     

Int＇I IT Fair Opens in Northeast China

The Fifth China International Software and Information Service Fair opened in Dalian, a port city in northeast China＇s Liaoning Province. More than 700IT businesses, including Lenovo, Intel, Siemens and Toshiba, from home and abroad are demonstrating consumer electronics, integrated circuits. IT outsourcing and consultancy, digital entertainment and other services and products at the fair, which covers 30,000 square meters.     

Developing business of trade promotion in an all-round way to establish modern international service system

In 2004, CCP1T received more than 2600 guests of governments, international or ganizations, chambers of commerce and enterprises from 74 countries and areas, 40 percent more than preceding year, went through invitation formalities for 279 foreign tion, Germany Berlin Industry and Commerce Association etc.     

China＇s coal mining hub urged to adopt low-carbon technologies

Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong has urged northern Shanxi Province, China＇s main coal mining hub, to adopt low-carbon technologies.     

HP ＂quality complaint＂, sign of China＇s growing awareness of consumer rights

The U.S. Commerce Department said on March 2 that it would impose preliminary duties on imported Chinese potassium phosphate salts and coated paper, a move that may escalate trade disputes between the two countries. In these countervailing duty （CVD） cases, the two products will face 109 percent and up to 13 percent duties, respectively.     

China opposes EU＇s imposition of anti-dumping duties on Chinese seamless steel pipe

The final verdict in a lawsuit by hundreds-year-old Chinese beancurd brand Wangzhihe against a German supermarket is due April 23, a lawyer said March 30. According to Wolfgang Festl-Wietek, a lawyer for Wangzhihe, the dispute centers on whether OKAI, the supermarket that registered Wangzhihe＇s logo in Germany, is a competitor to the Chinese company, and whether Wangzhihe had marketing and sales activities in Germany. The lawyer said he had confidence in winning the lawsuit.     

China opposes EU proposal extendinn anti-dumping duties on shoes

The Chinese feathcr and down industry has seen the price of raw feather and down products rebound to the level at the beginning of 2008 after touching a fire-year low during the global economic slowdown.     

Plant-level responses to antidumping duties: Evidence from U.S. manufacturers

This paper describes the effects of a temporary increase in tariffs on the performance and behavior of U.S. manufacturers. Using a dataset that includes the full population of U.S. manufacturing plants, I show that an apparent positive correlation between antidumping duties and traditional revenue productivity is likely misleading. For the subset of plants reporting quantity-based output data, increases in prices and markups artificially inflate the effect of antidumping duties on revenue productivity, while physical productivity actually falls. Moreover, antidumping duties allow low-productivity plants to continue producing protected products, slowing the reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive uses.     

Decoupling from China: an economic analysis of the impact on the U.S. economy of a permanent tariff on Chinese imports

Business Economics - America’s pursuit of low-cost overseas production and China’s thirst for export markets have resulted in industrial decline in the U.S. and raised serious questions...     

China Starts to Import U.S. Cherry

China＇s trade surplus in May soared to 22.45 billion U.S. dollars, up 73% from the same period of last year, the General Administration of Customs said.