US raw steel production picked up last week as production from Southern mills rebounded, data published Monday by the American Iron and Steel Institute showed. For the week ended Saturday, mills produced 1.856 million st of raw steel, up ...
Tags: Steel Production, Mineral
BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced Wednesday that it will impose provisional anti-dumping measures on cellulose pulp imported from the United States, Canada and Brazil. The preliminary ruling requires ...
Tags: cellulose pulp, anti-dumping, plant fiber, chemical industry
Fortress Paper Ltd. announces that that China's Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") has made a preliminary determination to impose an interim duty on the import of Canadian dissolving pulp into China. The interim duty applied against the ...
Tags: Fortress, Anti-Dumping Duty
The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that the U.S. hardwood decorative plywood industry has not been materially injured by illegally priced hardwood plywood imports from China. The ITC determination, which came in a 5-0 ...
Tags: plywood, Construction
Australia is a good potential investment target in the shale gas sector for Chinese companies as the domestic industry hopes that its own developments there can help meet soaring demand, according to several experts in the field. "It is a ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has determined that there is a reasonable indication that the dumping of hot rolled (HR) carbon steel plate from Brazil, Taiwan, Denmark, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and South Korea has caused ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, HR Steel Plate, steel, Construction
The Ministry of Commerce said China strongly opposes disclosure of an interim World Trade Organization report that disfavors the nation's claim in its rare earths disputes with other countries. "The case is under panel examination, which ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Rare Earth
The U.S. International Trade Commission is initiating a five-year "sunset review" on uncovered innerspring units imported from China, South Africa and Vietnam. This review coincides with the fifth anniversary of the imposition of duties ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
US raw steel production fell for a third week, according to American Iron and Steel Institute data released Monday. In the week that ended Saturday, US mills produced 1.817 million st of steel, down 1% from the prior week's 1.835 million ...
Tags: Construction, steel
The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) recently announced that subsidies were applied to US polysilicon under investigation which led to substantive damages toward China's domestic industry. Thus, a ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Countervailing Duty
In one of their last actions before the current government shutdown, the International Trade Commission (ITC) declined to reverse their earlier decision to impose a dumping order on Chinese engineered flooring. Jonathan Train, Alliance ...
Tags: engineered flooring, Construction
The government is expected to raise import duty on refined edible oil to 10%, from 7.5% at present, to protect the domestic oil refining industry. A Cabinet note regarding this has already been circulated by the Food Ministry, sources ...
Tags: Chemicals
Rising raw material prices and the crash of the rupee has badly mauled India's plastic industry, according to the country's largest plastics trade association. "[The] future of over 50,000 manufacturing units and four million jobs are at ...
Tags: Plastics Industry, Polymer Costs
The Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of China in Peru has issued a clarification on concerns raised by Peru's Gamarra traders about dumping of clothing by China. In recent years, 'Made-in-China' goods have proven to have good ...
Peru’s National Superintendent of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT) has announced that it would strengthen monitoring and control actions to identify importers seeking to enter textiles and garments into the country at ...
Tags: Textile Imports