China announced revisions to it subsidy program for companies breaking old transport ships and single-hulled tankers Monday, but industry insiders said this would do little to cut restrictions on what ships could be broken. "This will ...
Tags: Ship Breakers, Subsidy Scheme
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 ...
Tags: Cotton, Bi-Annual Discussion
China is handing out new subsidies for buying ships to help its beleaguered shipbuilders. The central government will set aside "special funds" that give shippers subsidies of 1,500 yuan ($246.9) per gross ton -- a unit of measure for the ...
Tags: Shipbuilders, Subsidies
Oil demand growth in the US this year is likely to exceed that of China's for the first time since the 1990s, skewing overall global demand in favor of developed markets, investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a new report released Friday. ...
Tags: US, China, oil demand
Since the establishment of prerequisites for the import of steel products in Mexico, the Ministry of Economy (SE) has implemented a mechanism to prevent illegal trade practices that would severely affect the domestic steel industry. The ...
Tags: steel, metallurgy
Textile mills turn to buy cheaper Indian cotton yarn to cut costs Affected by adverse weather, a reduced planting area and lower Indian cotton prices, China's cotton output is expected to drop sharply this year compared with 2012, which ...
As the EU begins to impose punitive tariffs on Friday on a number of Chinese solar exports, the world's largest solar market, which once fueled China's wild solar expansion, is now behind the industry's slim-down. The dust has finally ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar
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 ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
As of Nov. 2, far fewer marketplace healthcare insurance applicants applied for federal subsidies than the number eligible, a U.S. analysis showed. The Avalere Health analysis found 30 percent of marketplace healthcare insurance ...
Tags: health insurance, medicine
Lux Research expects hybrid gas/solar technologies to mitigate intermittency of the renewable resource. Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to ...
Tags: solar electricity, natural gas, energy
The European Union on Wednesday imposed hefty duties on Chinese imports of glass used in solar panels, saying China's producers were exporting at unfairly low prices that threatened European manufacturers. The European Commission said in ...
Tags: Eu Slaps, Chinese Solar Glass Imports, exporting at unfairly low prices
Australia's three surviving car makers have called for continued financial support, a reassessment of tariffs and trade agreements, and policy clarity in their submissions to the Federal Government's inquiry into the current state and the ...
Tags: Car Makers, Call for Support, Productivity Commission Submissions
A total of 28 cities have been included in a pilot program for the promotion of new energy autos, according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday. These cities, the first batch in the pilot program, ...
Tags: Transportation, Energy Car
The number of 4G LTE connections worldwide will pass the one billion mark by 2017, according to a study by research firm GSMA Intelligence. GSMA Intelligence is a branch of the GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators ...
Tags: billion, 4G, LTE, connection, GSMA
Rumors have it that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan (METI) is considering revising PV subsidy downward to JPY34/kWh in 2014 and JPY30/kWh in 2015. According to EnergyTrend, whether Japan's subsidy cut will come true or ...
Tags: Japan, revise, PV, downward, investment, EnergyTrend