The Ministry of Finance on Monday announced adjustments on the tariffs levied on the import of personal items to stimulate domestic consumption. Starting from June 1, import tariffs on suits and sneakers will be trimmed from 14-23 percent ...
Tags: Import Tariffs, personal items
GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market of flame retardant chemical in China is valued at nearly RMB 6.8 Bn, or roughly USD 1.1 Bn, as of the year end of 2014. The study finds that the market will continue to thrive ...
Tags: Flame Retardant, Chemicals
Thailand's meat producer Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) in 2015 is set to invest up to $763m to expand in foreign markets. i The company will spend THB20-25bn ($611-763m) this year, primarily on overseas expansion and ...
Tags: CP Foods, economy, businesses
A mother’s “personal grudge” against China’s haze issues gave birth to the trending environmental documentary 'China's Haze: Under the Dome.’ The country’s serious air pollution became very personal for ...
Tags: Energy Efficient LEDs, LED Lights
Egypt has signed two investment agreements worth $6bn in a bid to develop a global logistics centre for grain handling and a city of commerce and shopping project. DN Egypt reported citing country's supply minister Khaled Hanafy that the ...
Tags: grains, basic food commodities trade, wheat
Chinese consumers spent lavishly on travel, movies and gifts during the lunar New Year holiday. While hoards of travelers were on their way home on Feb. 18, New Year's Eve in China, Wu was enjoying the sunshine in Bali with her family, ...
Tags: Holiday Consumption, travel, movies, gifts
Gold jewelry demand cooled in China in 2014, in sharp contrast to the frenzied off take in 2013, and plunged 33 percent year-on-year to 624 metric tons, according to data published by the World Gold Council on Thursday India displaced ...
Tags: Gold jewelry, Gold
China will focus on improving economic quality in 2015 and adapt itself to slower growth against global economic headwinds, top policy makers agreed on Thursday. Economic growth should remain within the desired range and restructuring of ...
Tags: Economic Quality, economic policy
The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has downwardly revised the country’s cotton output for the ongoing season 2014-15 to 397 lakh bales of 170 kg each from its December 2014 estimate of 400.25 lakh bales, a news agency reported. ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton production
Virtually all the indicators, from manufacturing activity to trade data, point to weakening. Expectations of an immanent reduction in the real interest rate have never been higher, despite the central bank's insistence on reining in ...
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Brazilian cotton output might again reduce in the 2014/15 crop, but would still be close to the average registered over the last 11 seasons, says the latest fortnightly report of CEPEA. “In worldwide terms, a supply decrease is ...
Tags: remunerative prices, export costs, exchange rate ratio, Textile
Several dairy farms across China are dumping milk and ceasing operations, citing oversupply and cheap imports.TS This comes in response to slump in consumer demand across the country and increase in imports from countries such as ...
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China's annual economic growth likely slowed to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, a Reuters poll showed, which would keep pressure on policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year. ...
Tags: economic growth, GDP data
Indian synthetic fibre and yarn producers have urged the Union Ministry of Finance to abolish excise duty of 12 per cent levied on the industry and bring it at par with the cotton fibre and yarn sector. “This will help the growth of ...
Tags: cotton fibre, yarn sector, Textile
Kaiima Bio-Agritech, a plant genetics and breeding technology company, and Kunshan Keteng Biological Science and Technology, an agricultural research company, have signed an agreement to commercialize new corn varieties for the Chinese ...