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Archives for June 2013

June 26, 2013 by PKR

Federal Circuit affirms China-wide rate assigned to uncooperative respondent

On Monday, the Federal Circuit issued AMS Assocs. v. United States affirming the Department of Commerce’s assignment of a 91.73% rate to Zibo Aifudi Plastic Packaging (“Aifudi”) in an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on laminated woven sacks from China.  This China-wide rate was calculated for assignment to companies that had not established independence from […]

Filed Under: International Law, International Trade Tagged With: aluminum, antidumping, CAFC, CBP, China, CIT, countervailing duty, import fraud, International Trade, Malaysia, nonmarket economy, OCTG

June 20, 2013 by PKR

Foreign direct investment on the rise in Arab states

According to the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corp, foreign direct investment in the Arab states (minus Syria) rose almost 10 percent from 2011 to 2012, though total investment is still significantly lower than it was in 2010, before the outbreak of popular uprisings in several Arab countries. The four nations that underwent revolutions in […]

Filed Under: Foreign Investment Tagged With: Arab states, Egypt, KSA, Libya, UAE, Yemen

June 20, 2013 by PKR

Turkey’s economic growth at risk

In a recent article for Foreign Policy, Aaron Stein wonders whether the ongoing mass protests in Turkey could exacerbate an already worrisome economic situation. According to Stein, Turkey’s unique approach to weathering the global recession, paired with a decrease in direct foreign investment, has made the country overly dependent on short-term speculative capital flows. If the […]

Filed Under: Foreign Investment Tagged With: Turkey

June 17, 2013 by PKR

Railroads connect, divide Central Asian neighbors

Earlier this month, officials from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan officially launched the effort to build a 400-kilometer railroad connecting the three countries. The new railroad will hypothetically provide producers in landlocked Tajikistan and Afghanistan with a new route to the Caspian Sea, while potentially opening South Asian markets to Turkmenistan and the other states of inner […]

Filed Under: Disputes & Agreements, Foreign Investment Tagged With: Afghanistan, Central Asia, rail, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

June 14, 2013 by PKR

Slovakia hosts regional summit on economic recovery

This week Slovakia’s president, Ivan Gašparovič, hosted 19 of his counterparts from the region for the 18th Summit of Central European Heads of State in Bratislava. The theme of the conference was “Growth Strategy for Post-Crisis Recovery.” Pushing the idea that “Central European countries, particularly Czech Republic and Slovakia, are considered to have visionary fiscal reforms […]

Filed Under: Foreign Investment Tagged With: Central Europe, EU

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