The National Pork Producers Council applauded today's introduction of congressional legislation to grant President Obama Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as a means to conclude a successful Pacific Rim trade deal. The Obama administration ...
Colo-Colo and Under Armour unveiled the team's new Under Armour kits for the upcoming season. The unveiling also serves as the official announcement of the brand's global partnership and technical sponsorship of the most successful club ...
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Speaking at this year's American Astronomical Society meeting, Hubble Fellow, Emily Levesque reported that she and her colleagues at the University of Colorado have discovered a star that just might qualify as a Thorne-Zytkow object. The ...
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According to data released by Chile's construction chamber (CChC), the country's domestic rebar shipments totaled 46,389 tons in November, rising by 7% year on year but falling by 6.5% year on year. In the January-November period, Chile's ...
Tags: Steel, Steel News, Rebar, Rebar Shipments
Gemini Planet Imager's first light image of Beta Pictoris b, a planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star, Beta Pictoris, is blocked in this image by a mask so its light doesn't interfere with the light of the planet. In addition to ...
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Flowserve Corporation announced it has received a multi-million dollar order from Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction to supply the pumps and energy recovery system (ERS) for the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located ...
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After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound, said Ash Sharma, senior research director for solar at IHS. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing ...
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According to a report from Alacero, finished steel imports from China to Latin America reached 4.7 million tons between January-November 2013, growing 17 percent versus same period of 2012. Latin America represented 10 percent of the global ...
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The ongoing negotiations for two major free trade agreements, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), once materialized, could alter the US textile and apparel trade to a large ...
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It is learned that Mexico registered deficit of steel trade by 2.3 million tons from January to October this year, which let Mexico become the biggest deficit country among all Latin American countries. According to the regional steel ...
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PARIS, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Almost 14 percent of Australians take statins -- cholesterol-lowering medications -- while 13 percent of Britons and Slovakians take statins, researchers says. Britain, the "statins capital" of Europe, prescribes ...
A coalition of agricultural organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council is likely to oppose a final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement if it includes Japan but that country doesn’t agree to comprehensive ...
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A group of U.S. senators are urging U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to push for broad market access for U.S. pork in the countries that are part of the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ...
GeoPark Limited ("GeoPark"), the Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and producing properties in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina (AIM: GPK), is pleased to announce the successful drilling and ...
Motorola will start selling a cheap smartphone in the U.S. more than a month ahead of schedule. The company says it was able to produce the Moto G phones faster than expected. The U.S. launch was initially planned for January. But it is ...
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