The European Union (EU) on Wednesday imposed tariffs of up to 42.1 percent on solar glass imports from China, which would come into force Thursday. Chinese manufacturers had been allegedly selling the product, which is used for producing ...
Tags: Solar Glass, Energy
The National Cotton Council (NCC) welcomes the decision by the Peruvian commission on competition and intellectual property (INDECOPI) not to impose a countervailing duty (CVD) on imports of U.S. cotton. Following an 18-month ...
Tags: Peruvian Decision, US Cotton
China will raise the threshold on new coal mines and halt approval on those that do not meet specified requirements, in the latest effort to regulate the oversupplied sector. New coal mines with annual output below 300,000 tons and ...
Tags: Coal Mine, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in September this year Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 491,886 mt, more than double year on year and almost triple compared to the previous month. Meanwhile, ...
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Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 3,059,000 net tons (nt) of steel in October, including 2,233,000 nt of finished steel (up 8.5 percent and ...
In the first 10 months of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 652.48 million mt, up 8.3 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on November 26. The growth rate in ...
Tags: China, crude steel, output, up, Jan-Oct
According to data released by the Italian steel producers association Federacciai, the country’s exports of steel long products to the non-EU countries totaled 3.954 million tons in the January-September period, decreasing by 7.9% ...
According to data released by the South East Asian Iron & Steel Institute (SEASI), the steel consumption in the ASEAN countries totaled 32.2 million tons in the first half of this year, jumping by 17% year on year, driven by strong demand ...
Tags: ASEAN, steel, consumption, rise, H1
The development of shale gas in Europe could add as many as one million jobs to the economy, make industry more competitive and decrease the region’s dependence on energy imports, according to a new study released today. The ...
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's nickel ore imports totaled 355,941 metric tons in September this year, down 9.2 percent month on month and decreasing by 16.8 percent compared to September 2012. In ...
Pakistan's iron and steel scrap imports amounted to 133,822 mt in October this year, decreasing 15.20 percent compared to September and down 37.76 percent year on year, according to the data released by the Pakistan Federal Bureau of ...
The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia has announced that it has extended the provisional antidumping (AD) duty on hot dip galvanized (HDG) coil and sheet imports from China for two months. As SteelOrbis previously ...
Material neutral European Association Pack2Go Europe, representing major foodservice packaging manufacturers, met EU officials in Brussels last week to discuss action against packaging imports from China and elsewhere that don’t meet ...
The Asian paraxylene/naphtha spread slumped to 28-month low of $440.38/mt on Friday, down $14.62/mt from the previous day, with the regional PX market hit by rising supplies. The CFR Taiwan/China PX price benchmark inched down $0.50/mt ...
Tags: PX Supplies, PX-Naphtha
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports increased last week, according to Tuesday's Xinhua-China iron ore index report. At the end of the Nov. 19 to Nov. 25 period, inventories of imported iron ore in ports stood at 81.11 million ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy