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ICTSI net income at $142.3-M in Q1, up 58 pct

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 05 08:36 PM

ICTSI chairman and president Enrique Razo said the year started very well for the company with improvements in trade activities. Read more »

RCEP ratification seen boosting PH recovery

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 21 09:20 PM

Trade Assistant Secretary Allan Gepty said the Philippines needs to take part in the RCEP to boost trade and investment. Read more »

WTO: China can slap duties on $645M of US imports

Robin Miollard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 27 08:53 AM

The World Trade Organization on Wednesday handed a fresh victory to China, permitting it to slap duties on $645 million worth of US imports per year, in a long-running anti-dumping dispute with Washington. Read more »

150 rescued in Hong Kong World Trade Center blaze

Edmond Ng, Reuters
Posted at Dec 15 06:17 PM

A fire broke out on Wednesday in Hong Kong's World Trade Center, trapping about 150 people on its roof, and 13 people were injured before firefighters put out the blaze, police and the fire department said. Read more »

PH, 66 countries agree to cut services-trade red tape

Reuters
Posted at Dec 03 03:41 AM

The signatories, also including the US, China and EU members, are a minority of the WTO's 164 members, but represent 90% of all services trade. Read more »

Variants stress need for local vaccine R&D: official

Karen Lema, Reuters
Posted at Dec 02 12:59 AM

The Omicron threat has underscored the danger of low vaccination rates in some emerging countries, as richer governments move to give boosters. Read more »

China’s ‘unfair trade practices’ hit at WTO review

Finbarr Bermingham, South China Morning Post
Posted at Oct 21 01:26 PM

The US, EU, Japan, Britain, Australia and Canada all criticize China’s trade actions. The tone was markedly sharper than in China’s last review in 2018, when nations spoke positively of Beijing’s engagement on trade issues. Read more »

Japan, US business leaders call for improved supply chains

Kyodo News
Posted at Oct 07 04:04 PM

The pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of supply chains for a range of products from semiconductors to vaccines against COVID-19. Read more »

Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in fruit spat

Reuters
Posted at Sep 19 08:47 PM

Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports. Read more »

US honors 9/11 dead on 20th anniversary of attacks

Peter Hutchison, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 11 10:43 PM

At the 9/11 memorial, a moment's silence was held at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Read more »

‘The World Trade Center collapsed right before my eyes’

CYRENE DE LA ROSA as told to RHIA GRANA
Updated as of Sep 11 08:14 PM

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a Filipino NYU student looks back Read more »

BALIKAN: Karanasan ng mga Pinoy sa '9/11 attack'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 11 09:02 PM

Taong 2002, nakausap ng ABS-CBN News team sa 'Ground Zero' ang mga Pinoy na nakasaksi at naulila sa 9/11. Read more »

US marks 9/11 anniversary

Mike Segar, Reuters
Posted at Sep 11 10:36 AM

A couple views the Tribute in Light beams and the One World Trade Center tower on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Friday. Read more »

9/11: Ground Zero's forgotten migrant cleaners demand recognition

Laura Bonilla, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 07 07:04 AM

Lucelly Gil is one of the forgotten victims of 9/11: an immigrant cleaner who spent months clearing up rubble from the World Trade Center and developed cancer apparently from the toxic dust, but who remains unrecognized. Read more »

Biden to visit three sites of 9/11 attack on 20th anniv

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 05 08:06 AM

US President Joe Biden will commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by traveling to all the three sites of the attacks, the White House said. Read more »

PH backs patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel and Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 06 06:18 PM

The Philippines backs a proposal to waive intellectual property protection on COVID-19 vaccines to enable poor countries to produce its own jabs. Read more »

WTO says disparities in vaccine rates can hit economic rebound

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 30 09:15 AM

The World Trade Organization on Thursday warned that global disparities in coronavirus vaccine rates could impact worldwide economic recovery. Read more »

WTO convenes trade ministers to net fisheries deal

Agnès Pedrero, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 15 08:45 PM

The World Trade Organization kicked off a ministerial meeting Thursday aimed at breathing life into drawn-out negotiations towards banning subsidies that favour overfishing, but numerous sticking points remain. Read more »

EU proposes world’s first carbon border tax for some imports

Reuters
Posted at Jul 14 09:09 PM

The European Commission on Wednesday put forward plans for the world’s first "carbon border tax" on imports of carbon-intensive goods, including steel, cement, fertilizers and aluminum, as part of a program to meet its new climate target. Read more »

Australia taking China to WTO over wine duties

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 19 08:04 AM

Australia is lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China's imposition of anti-dumping duties on Australian wine exports, the government announced Saturday. Read more »