A World Trade Organization panel ruled that China violated the organization's membership obligations by restricting exports of rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum, the WTO said Wednesday. The ruling is expected to increase the ...
Tags: Rare Earths, Export Restrictions, tungsten
The new Chinese cotton policy has the potential to derail Indian raw cotton exports to the biggest cotton consuming country in the world. As per the new policy to be made applicable from April 1, the Chinese government has lowered cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Exports, Cotton Policy
State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec Corp, posted modest gains in its 2013 upstream and downstream oil and gas production and has pledged to reduce its capital expenditure this year. In its annual financial results ...
Tags: Sinopec, Oil, Gas Output, Chemicals
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
State-owned PetroChina lost some Yuan 49 billion ($7.9 billion) last year importing natural gas from foreign suppliers and selling it at lower domestic prices in China, the company revealed Thursday when it released its 2013 financial ...
Tags: Natural Gas, PetroChina, pipeline gas
China's National Energy Administration (NEA) officially announced its PV installation target of 14GW in this year’s energy scheme. It points out that the country plans to install 8GW of distributed generation (DG) system this year. ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV System
Fears of China moving to ban the import of lower grade coal have again resurfaced amid concern over the country's high pollution levels, with several market participants indicating that the government is seriously contemplating such a move ...
Trader procurement continued to boost spot demand in the Asian iron ore market, as trades got concluded at increasingly higher levels on the day, supporting a firming market. The Platts 62% Fe Iron Ore Index rose $2.75/dmt to $111.50/dmt ...
Tags: Iron Ore Market, spot demand, steelmaker
For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
Tags: Self-Sufficiency Policy, farmers
On March 5, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered his government work report during the opening meeting of the second session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, stating that in 2014 China's GDP is expected to grow by ...
Tags: Steel Capacity, Mineral
In the past two months, both the United States (the largest exporter in 2012/13) and China (the largest producer and consumer in 2012/13) announced changes to their agricultural policies, including cotton. On February 7, 2014, President ...
Tags: Cotton Policies, Apparel
The front-month Brent-WTI spread settled at a fresh five-month low of $6.48/barrel Friday, as steady drawdowns in crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub have lent upside support to WTI, while Brent remains subdued. NYMEX ...
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Chinese steel mills' credit woes have further depressed domestic silicomanganese prices, market sources said Monday. Domestic silicomanganese prices were pegged by the sources at about Yuan 6,600/mt ($1,083/mt), about Yuan 200-300/mt ...
Tags: Steel Mills, Mineral
As China is executing its ambitious shale gas development plans to reach 6.5 billion cubic meters (cm) by 2015, the US' experiences in the industry may offer a number of lessons for China, US and Chinese academics concluded in a conference ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Mineral
China reported robust exports for January, but assessing the nation’s true economic strength is no easy task. The Lunar New Year holidays that began at the end of January apparently created an export surgeA transient variation in the ...
Tags: Export Data, economic strength