Almost two-thirds of affluent young Australians would prefer to buy an imported vehicle to a locally made car, according to the results of a new study. A Roy Morgan survey of more than 40,000 Australians found that just 35.8 per cent of ...
At least three Chinese companies are in the final stages of negotiations with three LPG producers in Iran for term supply deals for 2014, industry sources said Thursday. The deals would mark the first time buyers in China had secured LPG ...
Tags: LPG Industry, Energy
Müller Wiseman Dairies, a Scottish milk supplier and distributor, has commenced production at its £17m butter plant in Market Drayton, UK. The plant is set to be formally opened in early December. It will annually produce up to ...
New analysis has showed China's iron ore price will continue to drop in the fourth quarter of this year amid a fall in demand. Demand has usually shrunk in the fourth quarter every year, especially in north China, and the corresponding ...
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US sheet pricing appeared to be trending upwards Thursday as mills retain the upper hand in contract negotiations and buyers attempt to pack on tonnage before the newest round of price increases sinks in. Though Platts has maintained its ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, mills
Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has requested the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to open a new institute for printing and packaging technology in Pakistan. The union has suggested that the institute should ...
On November 8, China's General Administration of Customs announced that in the first 10 months of the current year China's total foreign trade value amounted to $3.4 trillion, up 7.6 percent year on year. China's total export value in the ...
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Three of the five transportation modes carried more US-NAFTA trade in August 2013 than in August 2012 as the value of overall US trade with its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, Canada and Mexico, rose 2.0 percent from ...
Tags: NAFTA, freight flow, gain
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), the world’s largest Polyester value chain company, saw an improvement in its business in the third quarter of 2013, with revenue climbing by 11% to US$1.9 billion from US$1.7 billion in ...
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Chinese authorities have inked a deal with Brazil to allow corn imports from the South American country. A Brazilian government official was quoted by Reuters as saying that this development provides a key market for the South American ...
Tags: Corn Imports, Grain Production
After the December contract had closed lower in 19 out of 23 sessions between October 4 and November 5, losing over 1200 points in the process, a bounce was long overdue. However, even though it felt good to finally see the market up on ...
Tags: NY Cotton Futures, Textile
Chinese spot CIF import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode remained steady amid marginal sideways movements, industry sources said Wednesday Import premiums remained around $200/mt CIF China Wednesday, ...
Tags: copper, copper investment, raw material, refining copper
BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Wednesday that it will impose provisional anti-dumping measures on cellulose pulp imported from the United States, Canada and Brazil. The preliminary ruling requires ...
Tags: cellulose pulp, anti-dumping, plant fiber, chemical industry
On 5 November 2013, the US-American International Trade Commission (ITC) decided unanimously against the introduction of permanent dumping and countervailing duties on hardwood plywood imports from China. The ITC considers that the ...
Tags: plywood, wood, wood industry, wood import
Plastic bottle recycling by consumers increased 161 million pounds in 2012, edging up 6.2 percent, to reach nearly 2.8 billion pounds for the year, according to figures released jointly today by the Association of Postconsumer Plastic ...