In January this year, Japanese automobile production (including passenger cars, trucks and buses) totaled 860,803 units, increasing by 109,221 units or 14.5 percent compared to the same month of 2013, constituting the fifth consecutive ...
Tags: Auto Output, Mineral
Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with its trading affiliate Shinsho Corporation, Japan companies Metal One Corporation and Osaka Seiko Ltd, and US-based Republic Steel to consider ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Wire Rod
Surface trade among the United States,Canada and Mexico increased 6.5%in December,the Department of Transportation announced. All trade among the North American Free Trade Agreement partners rose 6.4%to$90 billion,DOT's Bureau of ...
Tags: Nafta Surface Trade, Nafta, Transportation
"The result for the first half of the financial year reflected solid growth in emerging markets, ongoing operating improvements and the benefits from recent acquisitions. Earnings per share, for the continuing operations, increased 22% to ...
Tags: Packaging&Printing, Amcor
US fuel oil demand fell to a seven-month low of 218,000 b/d in December, while 2013 demand overall was the lowest on record, US Energy Information Administration data published Thursday showed. The Thursday data are monthly numbers ...
The net volume of gas imported into the UK outstripped domestic production in 2013 for the first time ever, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Thursday. "Imports of gas again exceeded UK production, and in 2013 for the first ...
Tags: Gas Imports, Domestic Output
Russian ultra low sulfur diesel exports may struggle to find a home in the UK in the winter after the country's oil importers agreed earlier this month to enact a new test to assess the fuel's filter-blocking tendency, traders said Friday. ...
Chairman AEPC, Mr. Virender Uppal, welcomed the move to extend the 2% duty credit scrip under the Market Linked Focus Product Scrip (MLFPS) for RMG sector (2% Duty credit scrip, HS 61 & 62) to EU and USA for exports from 01/04/2014 till ...
Tags: global markets, Apparel
PRC, Bearish news continues to dominate the newswires in China. Many pork producers continue to be constrained by negative margins as the industry grapples with oversupply. Meanwhile, the poultry industry remains rocked by the H79N virus ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The federal government substantially lowered its estimate of how much the U.S. economy grew in the fourth quarter to reflect more comprehensive data showing consumer spending grew more slowly than first thought. Real gross domestic ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
The drop in net imports of oil (crude and petroleum products combined) was the major contributor to the United States reaching its lowest net trade deficit in November 2013 since 2009, although the trade deficit increased in the final month ...
Tags: lowest net trade deficit, stagnating domestic product demand
According to the preliminary report released by the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI), in 2013 apparent steel consumption in ASEAN countries increased by 8-10 percent year on year. Meanwhile, in the given year the region's ...
Tags: Steel Consumption, Mineral
Shen Danyang, spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC), has stated that the MOC holds a cautious but optimistic view on China's foreign trade situation in 2014 and is confident that the country's foreign trade will indicate similar ...
Tags: Customs data, Mineral
In 2013, Kyrgyzstan produced textiles and garments valued at 7.6 billion soms, according to the Ministry of Energy and Industry. Segment-wise, the textile production was 1.206 billion soms, while clothing accounted for 6.394 billion ...
Tags: Kyrgyz Textile, Apparel Output, Textile
The exports of textiles and apparel from India are likely to miss the target of US$ 43 billion set for the current financial year by about $1 billion, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao has said, Business Standard reported quoting PTI. ...
Tags: Indian Textile, Textile Exports, Apparel