In the January-February period of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to RMB 3.87 trillion ($632.35 billion), indicating a year-on-year rise of 0.9 percent, according to the Chinese customs authorities. In the given ...
Tags: Foreign Trade
The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh jumped by 16.68 percent to US$ 16.138 billion during the first eight months of the ongoing fiscal year 2013-14, compared to the $13.83 billion exports made during the corresponding period of ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel, knitwear
Increased low-ash thermal coal production from Whitehaven Coal's Narrabri underground mine in New South Wales was a key driver for a 48% year-on-year rise in the Australian coal producer's earnings before interest, depreciation and tax to ...
Tags: Coal's Sales, Mineral
Around a quarter of Australian metallurgical coal is sold on a spot basis following a significant increase in production and the fact that the primary buyer, China, prefers short-term pricing, an analysis of Platts data and a survey of ...
Tags: Coal Market, Spot Pricing
Japan imported 849.785 billion yen of textile yarn and fabrics in 2013, registering an increase of 19 percent year-on-year, according to the trade statistics released by the Ministry of Finance. On the other hand, the imports of ...
China's apparent demand for gas in December rose 14.1% year on year to a record high of 16.26 billion cu m, according to Platts calculations of recently released government data. China does not release consumption data on gas. Platts ...
Tags: natural gas, gas demand
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q1 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in 2013 European Union (EU) steel imports are estimated to decline by 9.5 percent year on ...
Tags: steel imports, steel market
Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that its listed subsidiary Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd will see an estimated 50-100 percent year-on-year rise in its net profit for 2013. ...
Tags: steelmaker, reduced prices of raw materials, lower costs, net profit
China's chemical sector saw its profits increase 12.2 percent year on year to 434 billion yuan ($71.06 billion) in 2013, data from the country's top economic planner showed. The sector's added value also grew by 12.2 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Chemical Fertilizer, Plastics
BEIJING, Jan. 20 -- Industrial output in China grew 9.7 percent in 2013 from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Monday. The figure marks a deceleration from the 10-percent growth seen in 2012. Monday's data ...
Tags: Output, NBS, product, economic activities
Among the main trading partners of the Philippines, China posted the fastest growth in importing Philippine merchandise in November last year, although it remained as the country's third largest export market, after Japan and the United ...
Tags: Philippine Exports, export market
In December last year, Ukraine-based steel mill Donetskstal Metallurgical Plant (DMZ) produced 122,000 mt of pig iron and 3,500 mt of rolled steel products, according to the company's preliminary results. In the whole of 2013, DMZ saw a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Pig Iron
In December last year, Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal's finished steel product output increased by 11.9 percent year on year to 292,800 mt, pig iron production moved up by 13.1 percent to 284,400 mt, while its crude steel production ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel Output, Zaporizhstal, Steel News
In November this year, Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal's finished steel product output decreased by 26.5 percent year on year to 199,100 mt, while its crude steel production declined by 11.6 percent year on year to 279,000 mt, according ...
Following declines in turnover and results for sales of building and forestry machines in the 2012/13 financial year, Deere is expecting higher sales figures for the 2013/14 financial year. For the Construction & Forestry division, which ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration