Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries has announced that the US Department of Commerce has downward adjusted the anti-dumping tariff rate for the company from the original 44.18% to 20.86%. The department on July 25 ...
Tags: Motech, US Department, Lights
After speculators had sold nearly 8 million bales net since early May, they finally seemed to move to the sidelines, allowing the market to recover some of its losses this week. The latest CFTC report as of July 29 showed speculators ...
Tags: Speculators, Decline, Textile
Delta Electronics is expanding its PV business by acquiring a plot of land in Japan to build a solar power-generation station, company chairman Yancey Hai has revealed. The Japan project marks the Taiwan-based firm's diversification from ...
Most of China-based polysilicon makers are disappointed with the punitive tariff rates their government is going to impose on polysilicon imports from the US, South Korea and Europe, because they think that such tariffs are insufficient to ...
Tags: based polysilicon, Electrical, Electronics
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
NY futures resumed their uptrend this week, as May rallied 380 points to close at 91.61 cents, while December gained 171 points to close at 79.55 cents. After meandering sideways for the past six weeks, unable to generate much ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Cotton market, Textile
China's National Energy Administration has set a target total capacity of 10GWp for PV systems to be installed in China in 2014. The agency said 60% of the target capacity is for distributed PV systems and 40% for PV power-generating ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV systems
China’s Ministry of Finance has announced the sliding-scale tariff plan for import of cotton in 2014. The tariff, applicable for cotton imports excluded from volume under import quotas, is as follows: a. If the cotton import ...
After trade disputes, sales to new markets are increasing steadily Chinese solar manufacturers are rapidly diversifying away from the shrinking United States and European Union markets to Japan, India and emerging economies such as ...
Tags: solar manufacturers, Energy
Just when it felt like the market was getting ready to challenge major support below 82 cents, a late session rally lifted values back into the 'comfort zone'. It is not clear what prompted the buying of some 2'500 December near the close, ...
After trading to a low of 82.11 cents last week, downside momentum faded and the market was able to move slightly higher this week, with December closing today about 300 points above important long-term support at 81.72 cents. The lack of ...
Tags: NY Futures, Textile
The performance of Associated British Foods' (ABF's) sugar division has disappointed City analysts, while its Primark business continues to shine. The UK bread market remained 'intensely competitive' with 'some pressure on margins', said ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, bread market
China has increased the value-added tax from four percent to five percent on imports of planes with an empty weight of above 25 metric tons, the central government announced on Monday. Meanwhile, for imported planes with an empty ...
Tags: Tax, Lignite Imports
The Government of Brazil has temporarily reduced the import tariff on polyester partially oriented yarn (POY) to 2 percent due to shortage of the product. POY with NCM code 5402.46.00 is an intermediate filament used as a raw material ...
Tags: Import Tariff, Polyester POY
China's move to slap retaliatory antidumping tariffs on solar polysilicon imported from the US and South Korea will cause only a slight increase in domestic pricing for the material, according to IHS. The Ministry of Commerce in China ...
Tags: solar polysilicon