Toyo Ink settles duty evasion False Claims Act case for $45 million *

USA - January 1 2013
Toyo Ink settled allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by agreeing to pay $45 million, plus interest. The Justice Department alleged that Toyo…

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U.S. defeats China in WTO appeal of electrical steel case *

China, USA - November 1 2012
The WTO’s Appellate Body sided with the U.S. over China and upheld an earlier panel ruling against China’s AD and CVD duties on imports of grain oriented flat-rolled electrical steel from two U.S. producers - AK Steel Corporation and ATI Allegheny Ludlum Corporation.

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Preliminary AD/CVD duties on stainless steel sinks from China *

China, USA - November 1 2012
Elkay Manufacturing Company achieved an affirmative preliminarily determination that Chinese producers/exporters sold drawn stainless steel sinks in the U.S. at antidumping duty margins of 54.25 percent to 76.53 percent in September 2012.

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APEC cuts tariffs on environmental goods *

Asia-Pacific - October 1 2012
Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (“APEC”) agreed to cut tariffs to five percent or less by 2015 on 54 environmental goods.

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According to USTR, what U.S. businesses stand to gain from Russia joining the WTO *

Global, Russia - September 4 2012
Russia became the 157th member of the WTO on August 22, 2012.

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