In the 36 years since China and the United States established diplomatic ties, China-U.S. commercial relations started from scratch and took off. Last year, bilateral trade in goods hit $555.1 billion, up 227-fold since diplomatic relations ...
Tags: Intellectual property, commercial cooperation, bilateral trade
The Chief Negotiator Conference of the 8th Round of Negotiations of China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Area was held in Beijing on September 24. The Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen led Chinese delegations to attend the conference. During ...
Tags: trade, investment, cooperation
The Australian Made Campaign has reminded businesses to boost country-of-origin branding on products as part of its strategy to leverage new export opportunities available via the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). “The TPP will ...
Stadium Goods an e-commerce site for sneaker enthusiasts, as well as the opening of stores in downtown Manhattan for buyers and sellers. Stadium Goods is the brainchild of co-founders John McPheters and Jed Stiller, who have backgrounds in ...
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China’s wind power industry gradually came out of the 2011&2012 slowdowns from 2013 on, and witnessed rapid growth in 2014 with full-year erected wind power equipment capacity of 23,196MW, up 44.2% from a year ago, reaching a new ...
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Avery Dennison has introduced two bio-based polyethylene (PE) films for label applications at LabelExpo Europe this year. The launch is in line with Avery Dennison's efforts to achieve sustainability goals by 2025. The new labels films ...
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On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries announced conclusion of their negotiations. The summary of the TPP Agreement is as follows: Disclaimer: The Following Summary of the Trans-Pacific ...
Tags: goods, services, trad, investment
Agricultural technology company Arcadia Biosciences has received US patent No. 9,150,839, entitled “Wheat with Increased Resistant Starch Levels” from the US Patent and Trademark Office, encompassing the company’s ...
Tags: Arcadia Biosciences, Wheat, non-genetically modified Resistant Starch
In general, LED Manufacturers performed quite well over the past eight months in 2015. But competition among LED manufacturers intensified through price wars, patent disputes and fighting over distribution channel were overwhelming. A ...
Hong Kong exporters may be interested in the new Joint Market Surveillance Action on Consumer Products being undertaken by PROSAFE, the Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe, which has been launched in July 2015. The Joint ...
Tags: LEDs, EU PROSAFE, joint market surveillance
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) today released a Request for Information (RFI) for the Chicago Smart Lighting Project, which seeks to update the City of Chicago’s electric lighting infrastructure. The ...
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The City of Round Rock is demonstrating the future of street lighting in partnership with GigaTera, Planled and Opterra. The pilot program, designed by LED innovator Planled, puts cutting-edge streetlight and security systems at two ...
Tags: LED streetlight, pilot project, The City of Round Rock
Plessey announced today that it is to carry out a major expansion of the company’s LED manufacturing facility in Plymouth, England, after securing a GBP 30 million ($50 million) loan from Deutsche Bank AG to finance the expansion. ...
Chinese manufacturers exported LED lighting goods to India for the first eight months of 2015 reached US $355 million, according to a DIGITIMES report. LED lighting exports to India soared 76.61% annually, broken down into different ...
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Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Yang Hwa Technology owner Shih-Hsiung Chan was detained by police on Sept. 11, 2015 for suspected accounting fraud and market manipulation, according to a report by China Times. In mid-June, Chan was ...
Tags: insider trading, Yang Hwa Technology, market manipulation