On Thursday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) formally initiated countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of non-oriented electrical steel from China, Korea, and Taiwan. The DOC will investigate 30 alleged subsidy programs in ...
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On November 14, Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin Group announced that it has decided to transfer 100 percent of shares of its subsidiary Valin Coking Co. to Hunan-based Chinese steelmaker Xiangtan Iron and Steel Group for a ...
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On November 15, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) stated that it has received financial subsidies worth RMB 6.93 million ($1.14 million) from the Chinese central government for its work on a ...
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The US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday that total September exports of $188.9 billion and imports of $230.7 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of ...
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Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending November 15, the US rig count increased by eight to 1,762, following a 12-rig increase the previous week. However, the rig count is still down by 47 from 1,809 rigs during the same week a year ...
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Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Laiwu Steel Group has announced that it exported 130,000 mt of steel sections in the January-October period of the current year. In August alone, its steel section export volume had totaled 15,230 ...
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Toronto, Ontario-based iron ore producer Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (LIM) has announced its financial results for the second quarter ended on September 30 of the financial year 2013-14. LIM reported a net loss of C$24.9 million ...
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Europe's largest coking coal producer Poland-based Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa SA (JSW) has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2013. In the third quarter, JSW reported a net loss of PLN 97.5 million ($31.4 million), ...
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In the January-October period of the current year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 13.7 percent year on year to 10.77 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In October ...
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Germany-based steelmaker Salzgitter Group has announced that in the first nine months of the current year the business activities of the company were burdened by the structural crisis in the European steel industry, reflected by ...
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According to a statement released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), in October this year Turkey's crude steel production increased by 2.1 percent month on month and by 6.9 percent year on year to 3.08 million ...
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In September this year, Turkey's total hot rolled coil (HRC) exports increased by 9.47 percent year on year to 42,205 metric tons, while decreasing by 22.72 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the ...
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Suzhou Province-based Chinese company Hailu Heavy Industry Co. has announced that it has won a tender to supply a coke dry quenching (CDQ) boiler to Chinese steel giant Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. (Baosteel Co.) and to supply another CDQ ...
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In September this year, Japan's industrial production increased 1.3 percent from the previous month, while output increased by 5.1 percent from September in the previous year, according to the revised indices of the Industrial Production ...
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2013. Accordingly, in the third quarter Severstal registered a net profit of $157 million, down 52.3 percent year on year. ...
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