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Reports: EU, China fail to reach agreement in solar-panel trade talks

7:57 AM MDT | May 24, 2013 | Francinia Protti-Alvarez

Trade talks between China and the European Union over the price of solar panels exported from China to the European Union have reached an impasse, according to various European and Chinese media reports. A first round of negotiations aimed at agreeing on a...

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EU to impose dumping duties on biodiesel from Argentina, Indonesia

The European Union will impose provisional antidumping duties on biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia, according to various media reports. Argentinean biodiesel will face a provisional tariff of 7–11%, and Indonesian biodiesel will face a...

Report: EU lets antidumping duties lapse on PET from 5 Asian countries, renews antisubsidy duty on PET from India

The European Union decided during a plenary session at Strasbourg, France, to let lapse a set of antidumping duties on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), imposed in 2000 on product imported from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand, according to a...

Court sets RPM subsidiaries’ asbestos liability at $1.17 billion

Specialty Products Holding Corp. (SPHC) and Bondex, RPM insulation products subsidiaries that are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because of asbestos claims, could be held liable for up to $1.17 billion in asbestos claims, a Delaware court decided today...

Finland's UPM and Neste Oil in court dispute over biodiesel patent

Industrial group UPM- Kymmene (Helsinki) has registered a court request with the Helsinki District Court to invalidate Neste Oil's (Espoo, Finland) biodiesel patent, alleging it does not differ from previously patented innovations, UPM tells CW. UPM...

Report: Kuwaiti cabinet suspends PIC officials pending K-Dow investigation

Senior officials of Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC; Kuwait City, Kuwait), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (Kuwait City), are to be suspended pending an inquiry into the payment of $2.2 billion to Dow Chemical following a decision in an emergency...

Sasol to defend propylene and PP pricing policies before competition tribunal

The Competition Tribunal (Pretoria) is set to hear next week the case brought against Sasol by the Competition Commission (Pretoria), under which Sasol was accused of charging excessive prices for propylene and polypropylene (PP) in the South African market...

Ferro, shareholder group reach agreement on board nominees

Ferro has reached an agreement with FrontFour Capital and Quinpario Partners over nominees to Ferro’s board by support for election two out of three of the shareholder group's board nominees. The agreement comes after months of sparring between...

ENI and Versalis lose appeal against EU synthetic rubber price-fixing fine

The EU Court of Justice (Luxembourg) says it has rejected ENI's (Rome) appeal against a ruling by the EU General Court covering ENI's involvement in a price-fixing cartel in the synthetic rubber market between 1996 and 2002. ENI and its chemical...

Proxy advisory firm endorses Ferro director slate

Glass Lewis (San Francisco), a corporate governance research and proxy advisory firm, has endorsed Ferro’s three board nominees—Richard Brown, Gregory Hyland, and Ronald Vargo—at the company’s shareholder meeting to be held on 15 May...

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