Starting next month, publicly traded U.S. companies will have to report their use of certain minerals and their derivatives to the government. As an article (“Conflict minerals and corporate supply chains: The challenge of complying ...
Manufacturers, already pinned down by rising production costs and competition from other countries, continue to struggle against an old adversary… Washington, specifically the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA has ...
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 ...
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Ukraine's retail gas prices may have to rise 40% as part of economic reforms needed to unlock loans from the International Monetary Fund, Ukrainian energy minister Yuriy Prodan told reporters in Brussels Thursday. "This is an unpopular ...
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Textiles and apparel from Ukraine are likely to get tariff exemption in the EU market from as early as May this year, as the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament has backed a plan to remove tariffs on imports from ...
During the current harvest season, the Latin American country of Paraguay is expected to produce around 1,800 to 2,000 kg of cotton per hectare, despite the drought, owing to use of transgenic cotton (Bt cotton) seeds, as per the Paraguayan ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the final results of its expedited sunset review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on circular welded carbon-quality steel line pipe from China. The DOC made an affirmative ...
Tags: Chinese Line Pipe, US DOC
Public companies subject to the SEC’s conflict minerals reporting requirements must file their first Conflict Minerals Report (CMR) by June 2, 2014. During the next several months, companies will need to make decisions concerning the ...
Tags: Conflict Minerals, SEC, Horizon
Speaking at a Safeway Inc. distribution center in Maryland on Feb. 18, President Obama ordered his staff to develop a proposed rule further tightening greenhouse-gas emissions by heavy- and medium-duty trucks by March 2015 and to complete ...
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Scottish government is set to launch a new food safety regulator, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), which will takeover the operations carried out by UK organization, the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The announcement comes as Food (Scotland) ...
Tags: food safety, Food, Agriculture, Drink
The out-of-order competition makes more and more stationery manufacturers feel the pressure of competition ,and the miscellaneous stationery market also make consumers fears when buying . In the final analysis, it is caused by the low ...
Tags: Stationery, Office Supplies, cultural goods
The US government announced Friday it was giving up its key role overseeing the Internet's technical operations, handing over those functions to "the global multi-stakeholder community." The move "marks the final phase of the ...
Tags: Internet, domain name system, Computer
Embedding components within a PCB substrate offers a range of benefits in terms of space and performance. But this alternative approach to product design demands support from the entire supply chain, including EDA vendors. Continued ...
Tags: PCB, semiconductor, Electronics
Canada and the Republic of Korea have concluded negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) that will significantly boost trade and investment ties between the two countries. The negotiations were concluded during the visit of ...
From the outside, it's hard to imagine that the Flexan Corp. facility in an unassuming neighborhood in Chicago serves as the headquarters for a thriving global enterprise. But the 65,000-sq.-ft. complex not only houses production for the ...