It is not just China getting slammed with duties, Brazil and Armenia are on the list as well.
It was decide last week that a five year duty of 30% will be placed on the countries.
On the same day, they “slapped” 39.2% duty on steel seamless pipe from China as well.
Entries from September 2009
EU joins the tariff party… on Aluminum foil
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments
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Beijing: Triple wages for National Day holiday overtime
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Beijing has just issued a circular to detail about the National Day and Mid-Autumn festival holiday overtime payment scheme.
4 days are considered public holiday while some might get 8-10 days. Only triple overtime wages will be considered for the 4 days that are considered a public holiday.
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Chinese Perception of Law
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments
I play basketball with a group of foreigners in Shenzhen every week; we have been getting together for several years.
In a city like Shenzhen, people come and go quite often and it is nice to have a group of people from different walks of life that can get together.
Our group contains Americans, Canadians, Japanese, Chinese, [...]
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