MEGA SHOW Part 1 and 2 are the largest sourcing trade exhibitions every October for gifts, premiums, housewares, kitchen & dining, lifestyle products, toys & games and stationery in the Asia-Pacific region. The shows take place over seven ...
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The China spot price of 553-grade 98.5% silicon metal was assessed slightly higher this week at $2,130-2,170/mt FOB China, compared with $2,120-2,170/mt FOB a week ago, as Chinese sellers -- despite slow demand -- kept export offers high in ...
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Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 tracked weaker primary aluminum ingot prices, industry sources said Tuesday. Platts assessed its weekly China domestic ADC12 price at Yuan 14,800-15,300/mt ($2,415-2,497/mt) ex-works ...
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Egypt's Ministry of Industry and Trade announced on Tuesday, October 14 that it has imposed temporary tariffs on rebar imports to protect domestic rebar manufacturers. The 7.3 percent temporary tariff will be valid for a maximum of 200 days ...
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In September of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $396.432 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 11.3 percent, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities on October 13. In the given period, the ...
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Rainfall in the South African cane catchment areas has been well below the long-term mean and this topic has received substantial coverage over the past few months. Given the lower rainfall during the season, it is projected that sugar ...
The European Branded Clothing Alliance (EBCA), the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), and the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) have hailed the commitment by the European Union and the United States to conclude ...
Platts’ analysis shows apparent oil demand in August was 41.19 million metric tons (mt), or an average 9.74 million barrels per day (b/d) — an increase of 3.7% year over year. This growth came despite a slew of bearish economic ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in the first eight months of this year the value of Turkey's iron and steel imports ...
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Technovaa Packaging Industries, the industrial arm of Darvesh and a major paper products/plastic film producers in the regional packaging industry, has broken ground for a manufacturing facility at Kizad, according to the Abu Dhabi Ports ...
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"India is a very different market from Europe. For men in Europe, dressing up is a way of life. Indian consumers are more conservative and followers of fashion,” says the top Indian honcho of a European fashion brand. Rajiv Nair- ...
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Economists at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have downwardly revised their world trade growth estimate for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous estimate of 5.3 percent. For 2014 also, the WTO has reduced its world trade growth ...
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The rains have been abundant in most of the cotton growing areas. However, in certain parts of Rajasthan and Haryana, there may have been some damages to the cotton crop, informs the latest fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton ...
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The Ministry of Commerce, Government of China, has fixed wool import quota at 287,000 tons and for wool tops at 80,000 tons for 2015. China has kept its import quota of wool and wool tops unchanged since 2006, even though the country ...
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The exports of apparel form India shot up by 17.9 percent in the first five months of the ongoing financial year that began on April 1, 2014, according to the data from the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). In April-August 2014, ...
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