Import volume at major U.S. container ports is expected to hit an all-time record in August as retailers concerned about the lack of a West Coast longshoremen’s contract rush to bring holiday season merchandise into the country, ...
Tags: Retail Imports, Record, Apparel
Top office bearers of a Mumbai-based top textile trade body recommend that the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) should offer logic-based incentives as opposed to lobbying-based, but strictly in accordance to the stated objectives. This, they ...
Tags: FTP, Incentives, Textile
According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first half of the current year amounted to 16.7 million metric tons, 1.5 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel output ...
Tags: Brazil, crude steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Import volume at major U.S. container ports is expected to hit an all-time record in August as retailers concerned about the lack of a West Coast longshoremen’s contract rush to bring holiday season merchandise into the country, ...
Top office bearers of a Mumbai-based top textile trade body recommend that the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) should offer logic-based incentives as opposed to lobbying-based, but strictly in accordance to the stated objectives. This, they ...
Tags: FTP, Apparel, Accessories
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced its financial results for the second quarter of the current year, indicating that stainless steel demand continued to recover and base prices increased moderately in both Europe ...
Tags: Outokumpu, Announce, Financial Results
After speculators had sold nearly 8 million bales net since early May, they finally seemed to move to the sidelines, allowing the market to recover some of its losses this week. The latest CFTC report as of July 29 showed speculators ...
Tags: Speculators, Decline, Textile
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in the first half of this year the value of Turkey's iron and steel imports decreased by ...
Tags: Turkey, Iron and Steel Imports, Decreased
A recently published report titled ‘The Fiber Year 2014’, the world survey report on textiles & nonwovens, states that the fiber production volume in the world textile industry in 2013 rose by 2.8% to 92.3 million tonnes. This ...
Tags: Fiber Production, 2.8%, Textile
In July this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 10.5 percent year on year but decreased by 1.2 percent compared to June to $1.60 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of ...
According to the statistics released by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, in the first half of this year France's basic steel product and ferroalloy exports amounted to a value of €4.84 billion, increasing by 0.16 ...
Tags: basic steel, steel, Mineral
Shandong Daiyin Textile and Garment Group (D&Y Group) is setting up a textile plant in Sedenak Industrial Park, Kulaijaya district in the state of Johor in peninsular Malaysia, through its subsidiary D&Y Textile (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. D&Y ...
China's price support program, introduced in 2011/12, raised internal market prices for cotton substantially above world prices. Consequently, yarn, fabric, textiles, and apparel made from domestic cotton became less competitive compared ...
Tags: China.Apparel, Accessories
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that it has signed an agreement for a research and development cooperation program for 2014-2016 with Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, ...
Tags: Russia, TMK, Metallurgy, Mineral
On July 14, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in June this year China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) issued iron ore import licenses for a total of 104.9787 million mt, up 5.34 percent month on month, valued at ...
Tags: China, iron ore, Metallurgy, Mineral