China's crude refinery throughput in March rose 5.9% year on year to 47.5 million mt, or an average of 11.23 million b/d, preliminary data released Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed. This was the highest year-on-year ...
Tags: crude refinery, Oil
Demand for solvent-grade mixed xylene has come to a near standstill this week as the product shares the same code for imports as mixed aromatics, which is expected to have a consumption tax imposed some time between May 1 and July 1, market ...
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FAW Jiefang gets a good start in Q1 with a sales volume of 77,000 units, up by 87% compared with 41,000 units of Q1 2016. The market share is 23.6%, up by 2.5% year on year and up by 4.3% compared with the total sales volume in 2016. This ...
China's apparent oil demand rose 5.3% year on year in the first two months of 2017 to 11.65 million b/d on the back of robust economic growth, holiday transportation demand and efforts to build stocks ahead of the refinery maintenance ...
Tags: oil demand, Oil products
WitsView, a division of the market intelligence firm TrendForce, estimates that worldwide shipments of LCD TV panels for 2017 will total 255.6 million units, down 1.8% in unit volume from 2016. This year’s increase in the average size ...
China reported growth in both import and export of toys in 2016, which fortified the country's status as a major manufacturer and consumer of toys, a report published Thursday said. Last year, China exported toys valued at 33.7 billion ...
Tags: toy, Light Industry
China is highly likely to restrict oil product exports in the first half of 2017 to flat or below H1 2016 levels amid growing focus on pollution control, curbing excess capacity and international trade flows, sources with knowledge of the ...
Tags: Oil Product, Crude Oil
Constantia Flexibles Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of flexible packaging products and labels, surpassed annual sales of two billion euros in 2016 , the first time in its history. The company also achieved record ...
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Taiwan imported 5.70 million mt of thermal coal in January, up 31% year on year and 15% from December and a three-month high primarily due to climbing Australian shipments, customs data showed late Wednesday. Imports of Australia thermal ...
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China's centrally administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) performed well in the first two months of 2017 thanks to a stabilizing economy and better management, the state assets regulator said Thursday. Combined profits of China's ...
FAW Group, a leading Chinese automaker, said that sales surged at the start of the year on the back of expanding sales outlets. FAW Group, based in the northeastern city of Changchun, reported over the weekend that wholesale volume of ...
China's State-owned industrial enterprises, which account for the majority of China's SOEs, ended two years of losses in 2016 and reaped good returns on the back of structural optimization. In 2016, the profits of State-owned industrial ...
Enterprises listed on China's NASDAQ-style board witnessed robust net profit growth in 2016, evidence of ongoing industrial upgrading and economic restructuring. Combined business revenue of 603 growth enterprises listed on the board ...
China imported 398,568 mt of copper concentrate from Peru in January, up 27% year on year, latest data released over the weekend by the General Administration of Customs showed. Peru edged out Chile as China's top source of imported ...
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DGBAS reports Taiwan’s 2017 GDP growth forecast to stand at a three-year high of 1.92 percent, with annual export to show the strongest increase of 8.5 percent in the past six years (photo courtesy of UDN.com). In light of the ...
Tags: GDP growth