ICE Cotton lost 100 pts on the week to close at 77.35 basis the H4 contract, although it was a much more interesting week than the final price action would suggest. Z3 First Notice Day was today and, after the Z/H spread dropped to nearly ...
China will encourage more e-commerce to try to bring online retail sales up to 10 percent of the total retail sales of consumer goods, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Thursday. China will expand e-commerce, with a focus on ...
Tags: E-commerce, B2B, Online Store
Releasing the apparel exports data for the month of October 2013, Dr A Sakthivel Chairman AEPC stated, "Apparel exports were to the tune of USD 1190 million in October 2013-14 with increase of 30.91 per cent against the corresponding month ...
Tags: Indian, Apparel Export, Zoom 30.9%
Pakistan exported textiles and garments worth US$ 4.691 billion during the first four months of the ongoing fiscal year 2013-14 that started on July 1, 2013, showing a rise of 7.55 percent over exports of US$ 4.361 billion made during the ...
Tags: Pakistan, Textile Exports, Grow
The exports of garments from the island nation of Sri Lanka to its major export destinations of the EU and the US recorded a remarkable growth of 30.7 percent year-on-year and 32.2 percent year-on-year, respectively, in September 2013, ...
Tags: Garment Exports, apparel
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the country’s imports of stainless steel flat products totaled 41,700 tons in September, up slightly by 0.44% from a month ago and soaring by 63.19% year on year. ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in September this year Turkey's slab imports amounted to 198,685 mt, increasing by 36.17 percent month on month and up 84.19 percent year on year. The total value ...
Malaysia has announced that it has imposed an antidumping (AD) duty on electrolytic tinplate imports from China and South Korea for five years starting from November 16. Accordingly, the antidumping duty rate for Chinese imports stands at ...
Overall foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the January-October period of the current year totaled $97.026 billion, up 5.77 percent year on year, as announced by China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on November 19. In the given ...
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During the afternoon session of the 1st Assofermet Day & SteelOrbis Conference, held on Friday, November 15 in Brescia in northern Italy, Burak Odaba, director of SteelOrbis, provided a snapshot of the current state of the Turkish steel ...
Tags: assofermet, SteelOrbis, Turkey, scrap, importer
I keep hearing, even among some in the alternative media, that the overpopulation of humans on our planet is a myth because "all the people in the world could fit in the state of Texas." Sure they can, but then where would they pee? ...
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The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) would be sending about nine companies to participate in the 15th International Apparel, Textile and Footwear Trade Exhibition of South Africa (ATF) 2013, scheduled to be held from November ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in September this year Turkey's pig iron imports amounted to 48,190 mt, decreasing by 37.71 percent month on month and down 57.72 percent year on year. The total ...
Tags: Pig Iron Imports, Mineral
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in September this year Turkey's stainless flat steel imports fell by a slight margin of 0.44 percent compared to the previous month to 41,700 metric tons, following ...
Tags: Stainless Flat Steel, Mineral
Japan's production of silicomanganese fell to a record low in September, with market sources attributing this largely to two of the three producers shifting their domestic operations to less power-intensive ferromanganese production and ...
Tags: Silicomanganese, Chemicals