As China is executing its ambitious shale gas development plans to reach 6.5 billion cubic meters (cm) by 2015, the US' experiences in the industry may offer a number of lessons for China, US and Chinese academics concluded in a conference ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Mineral
LPG prices in South China surged Yuan 300-600/mt ($49-98/mt) this week as supply fell and demand increased, domestic traders said Friday. Imported LPG, with a propane and butane ratio of 80:20, was heard traded in the range of Yuan ...
Tags: LPG prices, propane
Two trades for mid-calorific value imported thermal coal for delivery to ports in South China were heard in the seaborne market during Friday's Asia trading session, supporting prices, said market sources. The Platts/Fenwei CFR South ...
Tags: thermal coal, Mineral
China's alumina output is forecast to rise 13.8% year on year to 53.5 million mt in 2014, an analyst from state nonferrous information division Beijing Antaike said Friday. Realized alumina output totaled 47 million mt in 2013, according ...
Tags: Alumina Output, Mineral
In January of the current year, Taiwan's basic metal and basic metal product export orders amounted to $2.36 billion, down 6.7 percent compared to December and decreasing by 4.5 percent compared to January 2013, according to Taiwan's ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has stated that its Hebei-based subsidiary Chengde Iron and Steel Co. exported a total of 51,000 mt of finished steel products in January of the current year, up 11 percent ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Mineral
In 2013, the total value of China's external trade for ships amounted to $31.046 billion, down 24.2 percent year on year, according to the Chinese customs authorities. The total value of China's ship exports in the given year amounted to ...
Tags: Ship Export, Mineral
According to industry statistics, in 2013 China's common wire rod exports reached 27,274 mt, up 1.02 percent, its hot rolled stainless steel wire rod exports amounted to 84,927 mt, up 17.10 percent, hot rolled alloy wire rod exports totaled ...
Tags: Wire Rod Imports, Mineral
Taiwan exported US$1.5 billion worth of machinery in January, down 4.4% from the same month of 2013 due chiefly to a 31.1% decline in exports to mainland China, the biggest overseas market for the island's machinery. The Taiwan ...
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has started an anti-dumping investigation of China- and Taiwan-based solar players and is expected to announce preliminary anti-dumping tariffs in June. Taiwan-based solar cell makers can tolerate tariffs ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Anti-Dumping Tax
TSMC Solar, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) wholly-owned subsidiary maker of CIGS thin-film PV modules, will expand its annual production capacity from 40MWp currently to 120MWp in the fourth quarter of 2014, according ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics filed applications for 208 patents with the Intellectual Property Office under the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2013, the highest ...
Tags: LED Makers, LED epitaxial wafer
Around a quarter of Australian metallurgical coal is sold on a spot basis following a significant increase in production and the fact that the primary buyer, China, prefers short-term pricing, an analysis of Platts data and a survey of ...
Tags: Coal Market, Spot Pricing
China's recent move to digitally tag fuel cargoes to clamp down on the widespread practice of declaring crude purchases as fuel oil to evade taxes is already seen to be curbing demand for heavy Venezuelan Merey crude from teapot refiners in ...
Tags: Curbing Demand, Tax Change
The Chinese export spot price of 75%-Si ferrosilicon was assessed at $1,410-1,440/mt FOB Thursday, compared with $1,410-1,450/mt a week ago, on slow domestic and export demand. This week, an Inner Mongolia-based producer sold around 300 ...
Tags: Ferrosilicon, Mineral