Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Gentium have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which a subsidiary of Jazz Pharmaceuticals will make a cash tender offer of $57.00 per share for all outstanding Gentium ordinary shares and American ...
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The Pakistani textile industry has urged the Government to establish Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) Cell, in order to fully utilize the duty-free access to the European Union (EU) and earn foreign exchange. The proposal ...
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The European Commission has announced that it has launched an expiry review regarding the antidumping (AD) duty on welded pipe imports from Belarus, China, Russia and Ukraine. The expiry review application was lodged by the Defence ...
The Federal Government of Pakistan’s decision to ensure gas supply of 100 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) to the textile industry in Punjab would ensure continuation of work for around 3 million textile workers, said All Pakistan ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that its cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules will power four solar energy plants in France, with a combined capacity of 48MW. Developed and owned by independent renewable energy ...
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According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in October this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) decreased ...
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Annual inflation in the euro area was 0.9 percent in November this year, up from 0.7 percent recorded in October, according to a report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In November last year, the ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments: Chinese Woman Killed by cNew to Humans A Chinese woman has died from a bird flu strain that has never before affected humans, and the World Health Organization called the ...
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The exports of textiles and clothing stagnated in 2012, according to the ‘International Trade Statistics 2013’, published by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The report states that half of the world’s top ten ...
Tags: Textiles, Clothing Exports
Following the Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif’s decision to provide additional gas supply to the industrial sector, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet has approved the PM’s directive for ...
Tags: Textile Units, Textile
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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The European Commission is assessing possible UK incentives for a nuclear power plant deal that attracted Chinese investment, an EU official told China Daily. The nuclear deal was struck when British Prime Minister David Cameron met ...
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Pakistan will enjoy concessions on 6,000 tariff lines, against the current 150 tariff lines, due to the grant of the Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status by the European Union (EU), which takes effect from January 1, 2014, ...
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The European Union Ambassador to Bangladesh William Hanna handed certificates to a group of the total 8000 apprentices across Bangladesh who recently completed skilled apprenticeships. Just three years ago, there were only 98 apprentices ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced preliminary antidumping determinations against certain alloy steel seamless tubes and pipes for high-temperature and high-pressure applications from the European Union, Japan and the US, ...
Tags: Initial Ad Ruling, Seamless Pipe