Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed a ban on meat imports from Montenegro citing illegal export practices. The agency claimed that the EU is allegedly smuggling its meat to Russia under labels of Montenegro, TASS ...
Tags: Illegal re-exports of meat products, food safety, Agriculture
The demand for foreign design goods is dramatically increasing in China. At the same time, the increasing demand has sapwnd overseas shopping representatives. China is the biggest luxury goods consuming country, sharing 29% of global ...
Tags: Daigou, design goods, luxury goods
According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Cuba claimed that the law would be "anti-capitalist" and would threaten free trade. The Communist country added that plain packaging would lead to an increase in counterfeit cigarettes, leading ...
Tags: economy, cigarettes, Agriculture
The Russian Union of Entrepreneurs of Textile and Light Industry, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will organize the 1st International Industry Forum for the ...
Tags: Textile Industry, textile
While the Chinese government has committed to eliminating 80 million mt/year of steel capacity nationwide by 2017, the reduction will be gradual which will see demand for raw material ferrosilicon remain steady in 2014 as compared with ...
Tags: Steel Output, Ferrosilicon
While China continues to be the rare earth industry leader, producing about 92% of the global output, its share in global production has decreased steadily in recent years, a study by Germany's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural ...
Tags: Rare Earths, mining, industry leader
China's rare earth industry suffered a sharp drop in profits in 2013 despite modest revenue growth, a report said. Industry revenue was close to 77 billion yuan (12.6 billion US dollars) last year, up 7.9 percent, but profits fell 28.1 ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Mineral
Peers voted in favour of an amendment to the Children and Families Bill which would allow the quick introduction of plain packs if it became government policy. James Lowman, ACS chief executive, said: “If the government becomes ...
Tags: Tobacco Industry, Plain Packaging
We were pleasantly surprised by the number of robotics announcements at CES this year. In the past it's been a bit of a snoozefest, since robotics companies didn't want to tussle with all of the other major electronics manufacturers for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
China will make more efforts to consolidate the rare earth industry and promote mergers led by 6 major producers, an official told Xinhua on Thursday. Following restructuring efforts in recent years, the rare earth industry now has six ...
Tags: Rare Earth Industry, Iron, Steel
A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of ...
Tags: honey, Chinese honey, food safety
The recent crackdown on a major rare earth smuggling case has again raised concerns about China's illegal rare earth mining and trading. In November,customs of Baotou City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,the world's ...
Tags: rare earth smuggling, illegal rare earth, rare earth mining and trading
China's Ministry of Finance said Monday the country's export tax on indium will be lowered to 2% in 2014 from the current 5%. The cut follows years of lobbying by Chinese producers, who claim the tax has encouraged smuggling. China ...
Tags: Indium Export, Metallurgy
The FSA is warning dairy farmers not to be tempted to add milk from other sources into their own supply. This is illegal, could potentially introduce contaminants and ultimately comprises the integrity of the milk supply. This comes as an ...
Tags: Illegal Milk, Dairy Farmers
The MoD plans to commission three new ocean-going Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Royal Navy in a deal that will sustain jobs in the UK's warship building industry. The new ships, which will be built by BAE Systems at their shipyards on ...