Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Trade'
EU puts tarrif on US Biodiesel
The European Union has started applying tariffs to biofuel exported from the US to the EU. The EU says that American biodiesel is being sold at less than the true cost of production in the US because of local, state...
Splash dash and a lot of biodiesel pain
Splash dash and a lot of biodiesel pain European Biofuel producers are considering legal action through the European Commission to halt they see as US biofuel producers dumping biofuel within the EU. Exports from the US gain...
WTO Bali meeting could help reduce biofuel tariffs
The WTO meeting in Bali from 8 December, could (theoretically) lead to a reduction in tariffs on biofuels and also support for farmers. According to the GuardianUnlimited, reporting a story from Reuters. [President] Bush said on Wednesday the United States'...
European Ethanol Association
There is a new trade group designed to promote industrial ethanol in the European Union... called the Industrial Ethanol Association. It has an interesting view of fair trade in ethanol......
US small farmers think biofuels won't hit the world's poor
Ethanol production has had a profound impact on U.S. agriculture in recent years. Now that more than two billion bushels of U.S. corn are used for ethanol production, a legitimate question is continually being asked—are people going hungry due to...
Sweden calls for tariff-free biofuel trade
Sweden's Minister for Foreign Trade, Sten Tolgfors recently used the,Taipei Times (where else) to call for the global trade in biofuels to be tariff-free. Sweden's starting point is the conviction that a more liberal trade regime, coupled with global standards,...
Chicago board of trade offers monthly agricutlural updates
The Chicago Board of Trade is offering monthly global agricultural market up dates, from 15th of each month....
Brazil's new ethanol futures contract
Brazil launched a futures contract for anhydrous ethanol on its Mercantile and Futures Exchange. The announcement was made on 24 April and the aim is to give producers and investors a chance of some certainty in the market in the...
CBOT mini corn and wheat futures
If you're dabbling or playing seriously in the Chicago Board of Trade Mini corn and wheat futures, you can see what the market's doing at no charge and live....
Biofuels: The Next WTO Spat
The Wall St Journal's Grace Fan has rounded up a bunch of global biofuels cat fights and suggests that Biofuels will be the next WTO spat. That's a bit tentative, and I'd agree with that position in terms of being...
Biodiesel: the glycerol challenge
The big challenge in making biodiesel is what to do with glycerol that that the process produces. Cardiff University's Chemistry Department has won a grant from the UK Department of Trade and Industry to try to find uses for the...
Chicago board of trade offers smaller corn contracts
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will be offering mini-sized Agricultural Futures for people who want to trade smaller lots electronically from 14 May 2007....
Civil disturbances, ethanol worries greet Bush
Civil disturbances fueled by worries over ethanol have greeted President Bush, on his visit to Brazil. Bush is expected to sign an ethanol deal with President Luis Da Silva. The visit has thrown the US tariff position on biofuels and...
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