Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) (BOVESPA: PREB) announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its 5% interest and transportation rights in the Oleoducto Central S.A. ("OCENSA") oil pipeline in Colombia for a ...
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More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
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The Brazilian industry and foreign trade ministry's commerce chamber, Camex, has announced that it has rejected a request to revoke Brazil's antidumping (AD) duty on austenitic stainless steel cold rolled coil imports from Germany, China, ...
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The Australian government has announced that it has imposed antidumping (AD) duty on hot rolled steel plate imports from Japan, China, Indonesia and South Korea and countervailing duty (CVD) on the same imports from China. The antidumping ...
There were 2,806 sub 50 kW PV installations registered during the week ending 15th December 2013, compared to 2,807 in the week ending 8th December 2013. This takes the total number of sub 50 kW solar PVs registered on the MCS database ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar, PV System
From the end of March 2014, the Feed-in-Tariff will only be available for solar systems that meet the new rigorous demands of MCS 012. To date, only five products have received certification and three of the certificates have been issued to ...
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The Indonesian textile industry growth prospects are estimated to remain sluggish during the 2014 year, owing to the planned increase in electricity power next year, said Benny Soestrisno, chairman of the advisory board of the Indonesian ...
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China will re-introduce an import tax on diesel -- at 1% -- from January 1, 2014, following approval from the State Council, the country's Ministry of Finance said Monday. No reason was given for the change. Diesel had been exempt from ...
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Pakistan will enjoy concessions on 6,000 tariff lines, against the current 150 tariff lines, due to the grant of the Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status by the European Union (EU), which takes effect from January 1, 2014, ...
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The cost of construction is set to go up further following an increase of Rs10-20 made in the prices of cement by manufacturers in the southern region. Retailers said that after the jump in prices, retail price of Falcon cement hovers ...
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China’s Ministry of Finance has announced the sliding-scale tariff plan for import of cotton in 2014. The tariff, applicable for cotton imports excluded from volume under import quotas, is as follows: a. If the cotton import ...
Trina Solar Limited has provided 1.28MW of PV modules to Solar Advanced Systems for the completion of a series of projects at ten Greggs sites across the UK. The solar arrays will cut Greggs' CO2 emissions by 600 tonnes per year, as well ...
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Starting Jan 1,2014, China will apply provisional annual tax rates lower than the most fvored nation tariff rates for 767 imported goods, according to the Tariff Implementation Plan for 2014 issued by the Tariff Policy Committee of the Stae ...
China will adjust some of its customs duties on Jan. 1, 2014 to aid economic restructuring and achieve balanced trade growth, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday. Tariffs on some 760 imported commodities will be lowered by an ...
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The Ninth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), held in Bali, Indonesia, last week, has agreed to hold a dedicated discussion on cotton related issues, including cotton subsidies and improving market ...
Tags: Cotton, Bi-Annual Discussion