The US Energy Information Administration says that in September 2013, China’s net imports of petroleum and other liquids exceeded those of the United States on a monthly basis, making it the largest net importer of crude oil and other ...
Tags: Oil Importer, petroleum, liquids production
Shell Chemicals nominated its March US butadiene contract price up 8 cents/lb ($176/mt) from February to 68 cents/lb ($1,499/mt), sources said Thursday. Shell officials could not be reached immediately for confirmation. TPC Group also ...
US crude stocks rose 1 million barrels last week, just over half of what analysts were expecting, as a drop in refinery run rates was partly offset by a decrease in US imports, according to data released Thursday by the US Energy ...
Tags: Crude Stocks, Chemicals
The United States imported textiles and apparel worth US$ 104.724 billion in 2013, registering an increase of 3.76 percent over imports of $100.931 billion made in 2012, according to the latest Major Shippers Report, released by the U.S. ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel Imports
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday its final results in the administrative review of the antidumping order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico. The review originally covered three Mexican ...
Tags: Rectangular Pipe, Mineral
On January 8, Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group Co.announced that in 2013 its subsidiary Tangshan Iron and Steel Co.(Tangsteel) exported 3.0744 million mt of steel products, nearly double on year-on-year ...
Tags: Steel, Steel News, Tangsteel's Steel, Steel Product Exports
Welspun India Ltd (WIL), the leading home textiles maker, has been spinning robust margins and profits on back of rupee's depreciation against US dollar, coupled with advantage of cheaper Indian cotton over key competitors like China and ...
The Los Angeles jet fuel differential tumbled 2.50 cents in the last week, including 75 points Monday, as the arrival of a larger-than-normal vessel weighed on the market. Platts assessed Los Angeles at NYMEX December minus 6.25 cents/gal ...
Tags: Jet Fuel, Metallurgy
Releasing the apparel exports data for the month of October 2013, Dr A Sakthivel Chairman AEPC stated, "Apparel exports were to the tune of USD 1190 million in October 2013-14 with increase of 30.91 per cent against the corresponding month ...
Tags: Indian, Apparel Export, Zoom 30.9%
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping order on large diameter (over 4.5 inches in diameter) carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from ...
Tags: Pipe, steel, Construction
US biodiesel exports hit a new record high in August at 96,792 mt, up 61% from July and almost double the volume from the same period of 2012, according to data the International Trade Commission released Monday. Canada, at 41,155 mt, was ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energ, biodiesel
The imports of textiles and apparel by the United States increased by 3.11 percent year-on-year to $ 59.014 billion during the first seven months of 2013, according to the Major Shippers Report, released by the U.S. Department of Customs. ...
The Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB) has stated that the Turkish steel industry is going through a difficult time after the US initiated its antidumping (AD) duty investigations of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India, ...
Tags: OCTG Investigations
China is expected to surpass the US as the world's largest oil importer by 2017, and the opposing trend of growing crude oil imports by China and falling imports by the US will affect inter-regional trade flows and the cost to both ...
Tags: oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
"China's rare earth ore exports have been rebounding monthly since February,"said Ma Rongzhang, secretary-general of the China Rare Earth Industry Association. But Ma and the association did not provide export figures for the first half. ...
Tags: Rare Earths