America will conclude its three-year farewell to inefficient general-purpose incandescent light bulbs on December 31, 2013, the National Lighting Bureau advises. On the following day – January 1, 2014 – it will be a violation of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
UTEC StarNet has announced that the company is currently performing laser surveys on the Shearwater platform in the North Sea. The survey work follows on from a recently-completed project on the Shell Gannet platform and involves use of ...
Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and China's Shenhua Group today announced they have entered into an agreement to create Sino-Pacific Coal Trading Corporation Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based joint-venture company that will supply Shenhua's growing ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against InterDigital in a complaint that alleged Huawei, Nokia and ZTE had infringed the company’s patents. On Thursday, the ITC upheld a previous ruling in June that found ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, Nokia, Patent Dispute
For a long time, our carbon fiber industry mainly rely on import, that restricts the development of relevant industries in China. To solve this problem in carbon fiber industrialization production, Jiangsu Hengshen Co., Ltd. set up the ...
Tags: Chemicals, Textile, Carbon Fiber
The Victorian Coalition Government's $1.6 billion Port Capacity Project has appointed the first private sector operators for the new facilities being constructed at Melbourne's Webb Dock. Minister for Ports David Hodgett has announced the ...
The US International Trade Commission said Tuesday that revoking antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled steel products from six countries likely would lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury. The ruling in ...
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 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
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed the introduction of the Generalized System of Preferences Update for Production Diversification and Trade Enhancement (UPDATE) Act, legislation that would make U.S. imports of ...
China will re-introduce an import tax on diesel -- at 1% -- from January 1, 2014, following approval from the State Council, the country's Ministry of Finance said Monday. No reason was given for the change. Diesel had been exempt from ...
Tags: Diesel Tax, Mineral
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
Drinks Americas Holdings, a US-based broker for authentic Mexican craft beers, has signed a state-wide distribution deal with Tryon Distributing, a distributor of fine wines and beers in North Carolina. As part of this deal, Tryon will ...
Tags: Drinks Americas, Tryon
Flat glass prices climbed 1.3 percent from October to November, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) report issued by the U.S. Labor Department. It's welcome news for an industry that saw prices fall precipitously during the ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Glass, Construction, Decoration
The Federal Government has invited expressions of interest to develop a new freight hub in Sydney’s south west at Moorebank. The government has selected Moorebank as the next major intermodal terminal to manage the growth of both ...
Tags: terminal, transportation