D.B.Group news

09/05/2013 GENOA PORT ACCIDENT *update

The regular traffic is slowly returning to normal in Genoa Port. However there may be some delays.

For any further information, please email our operations departments:

Sea Export exportmaretv@dbgroup.net
Sea Import import.mogliano@dbgroup.net

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08/05/2013 GENOA PORT ACCIDENT 
This is to inform that last night a serious accident occured at Genoa port. All import and export operations have momentarily been suspended and tomorrow has been declared mourning.

D.B. Group personnel is constantly in touch with shipping lines and port authorities and is working in order to minimize inconvenience and delays with operations.

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PUBLISHED THE EUROPEAN REGULATION SUSPENDING SPECIFIC GSP TARIFF PREFERENCES

The European Union has published the Regulation* suspending GSP (Generalized System of Preferences) tariff preferences in respect of Countries and products as table below. The duty will apply from 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2016. During that period, imports in the EU will pay the MFN (Most Favoured Nation) duty nevertheless the presentation of a FORM A certificate.
The measure is due to a “safeguard mechanism” of GSP system: the tariff preferences shall be suspended, in respect of products of a GSP section originating in a GSP beneficiary country, when the average value of Union imports of such products over three consecutive years from that GSP beneficiary country exceeds the 17,5% (14,5% for textile products) calculated on the total value of Union imports of the same products from all GSP beneficiary countries.

-TABLE-LIST OF SUSPENDED PREFERENCES**

COUNTRY	PRODUCTS
China	- All industrial products
India	- Raw hides and skins and leathers (Chapter 41) - All textile materials (From chapter 50 to chapter 60) - Motor vehicles, bicycles, aircraft and spacecraft, ships and boats (Chapter 87)
Nigeria	- Raw hides and skins and leathers (Chapter 41)
Ukraine	- Railway and tramway vehicles and products (Chapter 86)
Thailand	- Pearls and precious metals

* Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 1213/2012
** The table only lists industrial products from chapter 39 to chapter 98 of Harmonised System. For products included in other chapters, please contact us.

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EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED STATES TO LAUNCH NEGOTIATIONS FOR A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

The EU and US have decided to take their economic relationship to a higher level by agreeing to launch negotiations for a comprehensive trade and investment agreement.
The “High Level Working Group”, created in November 2011, has published on February, 11th, his final report analysing policies and measures for a bilateral economic growth and international competitiveness and recommending the launch of negotiations.

Negotiations will aim to achieve ambitious outcomes in three broad areas:
a)Market access: removal of all duties in industrial and agricultural products and  liberalization of services, investment and procurement.
b)Removal of  Non-Tariff Barriers and mutual recognition of technical standards.
c)Address the negotiations to go beyond bilateral trade and to contribute to the strengthening of the multilateral trading system.

Press Release - February 15th 2013

New location for the Italian Import Division of D.B. Group

To cultivate the excellence at our head office to transfer quality and Italian know-how to the branches located all over the globe, but also to introduce in Montebelluna the cultural grandeur of the different territories.  The “incubator” project launched by D.B. Group, of the De Bortoli brothers, is moving ahead with a concentration in the general headquarter of the import division, customs operations included, made up of 39 people, up to now relocated in Mogliano Veneto. “All the personnel of the Mogliano Veneto branch will be transferred in the coming months to Montebelluna,” said Silvia Moretto, Chief Executive Officer at D.B. Group Spa, “side by side with the export division and with the main functions. In fact, in the head office we are concentrating all the production chains in order to rapidly and superlatively match and surpass our competitors. We have expanded our presence abroad in the main economic growth areas, particularly Latin America and the Arab Emirates. That thrust has not slowed down yet because we have also chosen to develop ourselves in other directions. But the project in Montebelluna will be successful if we can create a critical mass of high-level professionals, to maximize the potential of the human capital we have in our company. Some additional sacrifices will be asked to our collaborators who will move from the Mogliano branch to Montebelluna, but they understand that this is the best way for us to face the rigours of the workplace, there will be more and better exchanges between import and export divisions, and it will establish greater paths to collaboration between employees.” The De Bortoli brothers' company has branches and offices in every part of the world. The head office in Montebelluna is the incubator of innovation and best practices to implement abroad in order to take on new challenges – and opportunities – as they emerge in the midst of the global economic crisis. A long and complex operation. The head office will employ 150 people (of which 18 were hired in the last 12 months) bringing the total number of group workers to over 430

May,09  D.B.Group opens Kolkata and Ahmedabad new offices in India.

With Kolkata and Ahmedabad D.B.Group has extended its presence in the Indian Region after Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi and Bangalore branches. Kolkata, in eastern India, and Ahmedabad, in northwest part of the region, are both main business and commercial hubs.

May,09  D.B.Group opens Kolkata and Ahmedabad new offices in India.

With Kolkata and Ahmedabad D.B.Group has extended its presence in the Indian Region after Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi and Bangalore branches. Kolkata, in eastern India, and Ahmedabad, in northwest part of the region, are both main business and commercial hubs.

D.B.Group and Expo Shanghai 2010

D.B.Group Spa is one of Italy's Pavillion suppliers

D.B.Group America has been accepted as a partner into the C-TPAT.

U.S.Customs and Border Protection has accepted D.B.Group America as a partner into the C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) program, aimed to build cooperative relationship and to improve overall international supply chain and U.S. border security.