China's central bank is entitled to impose restrictive examinations on gold and gold production, according to a guideline issued Thursday. In accordance with macro control, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) demands that all the gold and ...
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The Scotch whisky market in the UK has shrunk by almost 5% as consumers and industry continue to be impacted by the heavy tax regime. The tax is approximately 80% as a share of the price of an average bottle of the drink. The figures, ...
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PV demand has started to increase this month, according to EnergyTrend’s observation. End-market demand for high-efficiency cells/modules has also reflected an uptrend. In the end of 2014, 250W 60-cell multi-si module remained the ...
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PV modules produced by 22 China-based makers have been seized by customs authorities at several seaports in Europe in investigations of alleged violation of floor import pricing and annual import quota agreed between the EU and China, ...
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China's State Council has given approval for Hangzhou, an e-commerce hub, to set up the country's first cross-border e-commerce pilot zone, according to a statement released on Thursday. Hangzhou, capital city of East China's ...
Turkey has imposed an additional 50 per cent customs duty on Pakistani handmade carpets, which can have tumultuous impact, since Turkey is the second biggest importer of Pakistani handmade carpets. The imposition of the duty comes ...
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China's two largest trainmakers, CSR Corp and CNR Corp, inched one step closer to their impending merger after getting necessary approvals from overseas antitrust authorities, according to company announcements on Wednesday. The merger ...
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Taiwan's exports fell in February from a year ago due to fewer working days during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday and lower global oil prices, customs data showed on Monday. Exports fell 6.7 percent year on year to 19.9 billion ...
China's trade rebounded in February from the previous month's surprise contraction, but imports were subdued in another sign of continued weakness in the world's second-largest economy. Exports surged 48.9 percent in February from a year ...
Tags: Dipping Imports, February exports
China recorded total imports of 93.09 million tonnes of solar-grade polysilicon in January, increasing 1.1% on month, and 57.80 tonnes or 62.09% of which was through export processing zones (EPZs), according to China's customs statistics. ...
As it enters into February, the off-season market before the long Chinese New Year vacation leads spot prices of certain solar PV products such as polysilicon, wafer and PV cells to drop. Prices of PV modules remain relatively flat because ...
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China's machinery industry continued to expand in 2014 but at a softer pace due to sluggish domestic demands and piling inventories, new data showed on Wednesday. The added value of the sector increased 10 percent year on year in the last ...
One week ahead of Spring Festival, China's firework companies are feeling heavy pressure as they face a stagnant market going into their busiest sales period, with demand shrinking amid bans on firework displays. Setting off fireworks ...
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China's consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the slowest rise in more than five years, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Tuesday. Food prices, which account for nearly ...
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The governor of the state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), NN Vohra has requested the Centre to hike customs duty on raw silk imports to 30 per cent. “The governor approached the minister of state for textiles, Santosh Kumar Gangwar to ...