According to the latest data released by Statistics South Africa, in February this year the country's producer price index (PPI) for the basic iron and steel industry increased by 1.4 percent compared to January and was up 12.5 percent ...
Tags: Steelmakers, iron, steel industry
There is uneasiness that, following the release of China’s cotton policy, there will be pressure from Chinese buyers on Indian spinners to further reduce prices. In recent months, Chinese buyers have already lowered yarn buying ...
In the January-February period this year, the volume of metallurgical coke exports from China's Shanxi province indicated a 12.4-fold year-on-year increase to 262,000 mt, according to the customs authorities in Taiyuan, capital city of ...
Tags: Coke, Energy, Mineral, Metallurgy
Bearish sentiment blanketed the Indonesian thermal coal market Wednesday amid reports of price discounting by major Chinese coal producers to their domestic customers, said traders. A medium-sized Indonesian coal producer said he expected ...
Tags: Thermal Coal Market, Deal-Making
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
Flat glass prices dipped .6 percent from December to January, marking the fourth such fall in prices within the last five months, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) Report issued by the U.S. Labor Department. The only ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Construction Glass
The Chinese export spot price of 75%-Si ferrosilicon was assessed at $1,410-1,440/mt FOB Thursday, compared with $1,410-1,450/mt a week ago, on slow domestic and export demand. This week, an Inner Mongolia-based producer sold around 300 ...
Tags: Ferrosilicon, Mineral
Flat glass prices fell .4 percent from November to December, according to the latest Producer Price Index Report issued Wednesday by the U.S. Labor Department. The dip in prices was hardly good news for the glass industry as it marked the ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Construction Glass
Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News The price of goods imported to the United States was unchanged in December after declining the prior month, the Labor Department reported Jan. 14. December is the third consecutive month without an increase ...
Tags: price, imported goods, commodity disinflationary pressures, unchanged
According to data released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance, the country’s H-beam exports totaled 34,200 tons in November, falling by 8.7% from a month ago and jumping by 89.4% year on year. The country’s export prices of ...
Tags: Japan, H-beam exports, export prices
According to data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, the country's exports of stainless steel products totaled 95,722 tons in November, down by 1.6% from 97,273 tons in a month ago. The country's export prices of stainless steel ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Product, Stainless Steel, Construction
It's reported that Chung Hung Steel, one of the major carbon steelmakers in Taiwan announced to hike its export prices for hot rolled coils (HRC) and cold rolled coils (CRC) by US$10~US$20/ton for February deliveries in order to reflect ...
Tags: Taiwanese Steel, Chung Hung, Coil Steel, Export Prices
According to report, the Turkish hot rolled coil (HRC) producers' export prices were down by US$5/ton to US$570~US$580/ton FOB basis last week due to the dollar's appreciation against Turkish lira as well as the demand from European market ...
Tags: HRC, Turkish HRC, HRC Export
According to data released by China Customs, China’s exports of cold rolled coils (CRC) and sheets totaled 247,360 tons in November, decreasing by 14.5% from a month ago. In the January-November period, the country’s exports ...
Tags: CRC, metallurgy
The value of trade in China's goods in 2013 is set to exceed that of the United States, making the world's second-largest economy the world's top trader for the first time, certainly in modern times. "Judging from the current statistics, ...
Tags: Goods Trader, global goods