Indian firms seek higher duties on steel imports as prices drop

Mumbai: Indian steel firms are putting pressure on the nation’s government to impose higher duties on imports as trade disputes and a global economic slowdown divert surplus Asian steel stocks to India, industry executives and government sources said. Local Indian producers are suffering from the double whammy of a rise in cheap imports and low […]

A 24-year old UAE business gets back into start-up mode

Dubai: It was a different sort of disruption for Dubai-based My Perfumes, which had been in business for 24 years and had secured a decent share of the market for mass-produced fragrances and body sprays. But all of that changed as the company set out to mark its 25th year. Its operations got completely upended […]

Brexit impact on tourism temporary: UK tourism chief

Dubai The chairman of VisitBritain has said that concerns over Brexit and its impact on the UK’s inbound tourism are transitional, despite estimates that European visitors will continue to decline in 2019. Steve Ridgway, chairman of the tourist promotion agency, told Gulf News that VisitBritain was working hard to minimise that decrease in European travel. […]