Following a meeting with Gao Hucheng on 10 January 2006, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson stated that the mainland has "a responsibility to ensure that illegal dumping does not take place" ... (full story)
Hong Kong traders should be alerted to a recent proposal from the European Commission to ban a substance that may be included in a number of Chinese mainland products imported into the EU ... (full story)
Hong Kong and mainland traders of electronic goods will be rather bemused to learn of a new anti-dumping proceeding affecting one of their most commonly sold products. On 11 January 2006, the Official Journal published a notice of initiation of an anti-dumping ... (full story)
In December 2005, the Commission published a Notice concerning the safeguard measures currently applicable to imports of citrus fruits. Business Alert-EU readers involved in the fruit trade will already have been alerted to the Commission's Notice in ... (full story)
Business Alert-EU continues, in this report, to appraise Hong Kong businesses selling electronic goods in the EU on the implementation status of Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and Directive 2002/95/EC on the restriction ... (full story)
The safety of a well-known food additive exported to the EU from the Chinese mainland, soy sauce, has recently been called into question by the European Commission due to a chemical contaminant contained in the additive ... (full story)
Hong Kong's information-based society will no doubt wish to learn of the arrival of the ".eu" top-level domain which opened for business on 7 December 2005 ... (full story)
Towards the end of 2005, the EU submitted a notice to the WTO by which it has extended, by a further six months, the deadline to reach agreement with its trading partners, including mainland China, for "compensation" arising as a result of the 2004 EU ... (full story)
