A Mexican man is suing Ford Motor Company for negligence, alleging that the car maker gave out key codes allowing criminals to use his Ford Focus as a drug mule. Ricardo Magallanes spent six months in federal prison in El Paso, Texas, ...
In March 2013 the European Union and Japan began negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. In the framework of a study entitled: "Economic effects of a free trade agreement between Japan and the EU" researchers from the Ifo ...
Africa In Africa, on the whole, saunas are kept at a much lower temperature than in Europe. Asia In Iran, most gyms, hotels and almost all public swimming pools have indoor saunas. It is very common for swimming pools to have two ...
Tags: Sauna, sauna room
Trade barriers between the EU and Colombia will be lifted as of 1 August 2013, when a comprehensive and far-reaching trade deal enters into application. The Agreement will open up markets for both EU and Colombian exporters, eventually ...
Cass Johnson, President of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), released the following statement in meeting between President Barack Obama and President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam. “Within the context of the ...
China's benzene imports plunged to a 10-month low of 15,112 mt in June, down 80.7% from May due to cheaper domestic cargoes amid high inventories, data released Tuesday by the General Administration of Customs showed. In June, the average ...
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Natural rubber surpluses and poor demand, especially from China, will weigh on spot prices for the commodity, Germany's Commerzbank said in a report issued Tuesday. "Several years of supply surpluses on the global rubber market have ...
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The China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), also known as the National Interbank Funding Center (the Center), a sub-institution of the People's Bank of China (PBC), has announced that the RMB exchange rate on July 17, 2013, was 1 US ...
Tags: Cotton Import, Tariff Rate
According to data released by Taiwan’s customs, Taiwan’s imports of large-diameter wire rods (with diameters larger or equal to 14mm) totaled 713 tons in June, rising by 4.5% from 682 tons in May. However, the ...
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According to data released by China’s customs, the country’s exports of stainless steel flat products totaled 169,026 tons in June, rising by 3.5% from a month ago. In June, China’s exports of stainless steel flat ...
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According to data released by Brazil’s customs, Brazil imported 97,000 tons of steel products in June, slumping by 36% from May. Industry source indicated that the slumped import of steel products was caused by depreciated ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Mineral
China imported 275,337 mt of methanol in June, 40% less than it did in May, data released by the General Administration of Customs on Tuesday showed. The fall can be explained by the high domestic methanol production in the country. Over ...
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q3 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), EU steel imports remained at a high level in the second quarter of the current year, after ...
China's thermal coal imports in June fell 24% on the month to 9.75 million mt, the country's lowest monthly intake since February when imports were severely impacted by the Lunar New Year holiday, according to China customs data released ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Chemicals
The Union Minister of Textiles Dr. K.S. Rao met the exporters from Rajasthan in Jaipur during an interactive meet on Export Promotion of Handicrafts, Carpets, Wool, Textiles and Allied products and discussed the strategy for growth of ...