The council of ministers of Brazil's foreign trade chamber Camex has announced a twice-yearly monitoring of Aperam domestic stainless steel price proposal. The proposal is waiting for the approval of government authorities. This new ...
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A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL) system for food. The meeting, ...
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Top Azerbaijani,EU and US officials and members of the Shah Deniz consortium gathered in Baku on Tuesday to celebrate a major milestone in the development of a new energy corridor that will connect Caspian natural gas to Europe and provide ...
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Platts – Oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell to 29.7 million barrels per day (b/d) in November, the lowest volume since mid-2011 when the uprising in Libya significantly reduced the ...
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott and senior government ministers are holding talks with Toyota in a bid to ensure the car maker remains in Australia following Holden's decision to cease local manufacturing in 2017. Coming a day after Toyota ...
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OPEC crude production continued its downward trend in November as a new series of output disruptions took hold in Libya and lower volumes from other member countries outpaced an increase of 192,000 b/d in Iraq, monthly estimates from the ...
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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is not going to impose quotas on imports of coking coal in the first quarter of 2014 as Ukrainian coke plants and companies have undertaken to buy a considerable proportion of coking coal from local state ...
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The Ninth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), held in Bali, Indonesia, last week, has agreed to hold a dedicated discussion on cotton related issues, including cotton subsidies and improving market ...
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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reached an interim agreement that will shield public stockpiling programs for food security in developing countries from the usual limitations on governments buying food from domestic farmers at ...
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has demanded Holden make its intentions clear about its manufacturing future following reports and speculation that it has decided to cease production from 2016. The ABC and The Australian both quote senior ...
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Holden has decided it will cease vehicle production as early as 2016, according to sources quoting senior government ministers. The ABC and The Australian both report that the car maker was poised to announce its decision to close its ...
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In the January-November period of the current year, Ukrainian companies produced 1.501 million mt of steel pipes, down 22 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the figures issued by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers. In ...
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According to data released by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, the country's output of finished steel products totaled 26.625 million tons in the January-November period, down by 0.1% year on year. In the given period of time, the country's ...
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China will expand its cooperation program with the group of four major African cotton- producing countries, or the C4, trade officials from the two sides announced at the sidelines of the ongoing 9th Ministerial Conference of the World ...
In the first 11 months of the current year, Ukraine registered a 0.1 percent decrease in its finished steel product output to 26.625 million mt, a 0.6 percent increase in its crude steel output to 30.020 million mt, and a 1.8 percent rise ...
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