China has filed a complaint at the World Trade Organisation to challenge US countervailing duties.
Oil prices eased in Asian trade today on growing fears about the euro zone's debt troubles.
Kevin Gardiner, global investment strategist with Barclays, spoke to Conor Brophy on Morning Ireland about how Ireland can boost export sales into China and other Asian markets.
The euro hit a 22-month dollar low on growing evidence of an economic slowdown and as an EU summit failed to reassure investors over Greece's future in the euro zone.
HP Ireland has said it expects the company's plans to reduce its global workforce by 27,000 to impact on every business and region.
Voters from Germany to Greece would vote to keep the euro if their countries held a referendum tomorrow, according to a poll centred on the key national players in the euro zone debt crisis.
The five-month sit-in by former workers at the Vita Cortex manufacturing plant in Cork has ended.
Private sector activity in the euro zone saw it's biggest monthly drop in nearly three years in May.
Drinks group Britvic interim results to April are in line with expectations.