State-owned PetroVietnam and Rosneft are expected to sign two upstream pacts and a crude oil sales deal during Russian President Vladimir Putin to Vietnam early next month, PetroVietnam said Wednesday. One is to do with PetroVietnam's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, crude oil, Oil
Air freight markets stabilised in September, after an extended period of slow increase. Global freight tonne kilometres were up 0.5% in September year-on-year, a slowdown on the 3.4% growth in August, and there was no increase in volumes ...
Tags: Global Market Transport, Service, Transport
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose the proposed acquisition of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Holdings Limited by Bega Cheese Limited. The ACCC has reviewed the proposed acquisition at Bega's ...
Tags: Cheese, Agriculture, Food, Service, customs
Data recently released from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, showed overall strong global trade numbers for the month of September. U.S.-bound waterborne shipments in ...
Tags: economy, shopping data
During the opening ceremony of the Arab Steel Summit held in Dubai on October 26-28, the participants voiced their concerns over the high import billet and rebar tonnages coming into Arab countries. Domestic steel producers indicated that ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from China. The review covered Baosteel Group Corporation, Baoshan ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, carbon steel flat
Turkey has increased its import duty for stainless steel cold rolled flat products from two percent to eight percent, effective immediately, for all countries except the European Union and South Korea with which Turkey has signed free trade ...
Tags: Stainless CRC, stainless steel cold rolled flat, Metallurgy, Mineral
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping order on large diameter (over 4.5 inches in diameter) carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe from ...
Tags: Pipe, steel, Construction
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major ports in China continued to grow last week, marking the third consecutive week of growth, according to a Tuesday report by Xinhua News Agency. Inventories of imported iron ore stood at 76.53 million ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
US biodiesel exports hit a new record high in August at 96,792 mt, up 61% from July and almost double the volume from the same period of 2012, according to data the International Trade Commission released Monday. Canada, at 41,155 mt, was ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energ, biodiesel
During the past month, Cotton Outlook's world cotton production forecast has been reduced by 108,000 tonnes, owing to reductions for China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and the African Franc Zone countries, which more than offset gains for the ...
Total European Union steel tube production is expected to decline by almost four percent this year, according to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q4 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association ...
Tags: Steel Tube, Construction
The United States Department of Commerce initiated a trade investigation into imports of electrical steel products from seven countries, including China. The products, under the category of grain-oriented electrical steel, are flat-rolled ...
Tags: Steel Products, Mineral
Soybean imports are likely to rise to a new high in the 2013-14 market year (September 2013 to August 2014) following a drop in domestic output and greater demand for animal feed and edible oil. Heilongjiang province in Northeast China, ...
Tags: Soybean Imports, Soybean Demand
No matter how you look at it, suppliers who imported bikes lost business through August. Total imports were down almost 2 million bikes, a 15 percent drop in units, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Commerce Department. ...
Tags: imported bikes, kids'bikes