South Korea's imports of Iranian crude in April increased 8.9% year on year to 552,884 mt, or an average 135,088 b/d, from 507,821 mt a year ago, preliminary data released Thursday by the Korea Customs Service showed. Its April Iranian ...
Tags: Crude Oil, crude imports
US recycler Metalico expects domestic ferrous scrap pricing to remain under pressure until the American scrap export market improves, it said Thursday. First-quarter US scrap exports were at an eight-year low, leading domestic exporters ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, ferrous scrap
India's largest coal producer Coal India Limited is expected to decide whether to award a contract for thermal coal imports at its next board meeting set for late May, a source said Thursday. CIL received a single bid from government ...
Tags: coal, coal output
Implementation of international labour standards in Pakistan, especially in the textile industry, was discussed in detail when US Deputy Counselor for Economic Affairs Susan McFee called on Pakistan's Minister for Textile Industry Abbas ...
Tags: Textile
It was a combination of technical weakness and economic worries that weighed on the market this week, as the spot month moved perilously close to the important 90 cents support level, settling at its lowest level since March 13. From a ...
Strong domestic mill pricing appears to be filtering, slowly but surely, through the supply chain, market sources said Tuesday. Service centers have no choice but to increase their pricing for end-users, though realized prices are still ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, Downstream Markets
US ethanol stocks for the week ended May 9 firmed 162,000 barrels to 17.302 million barrels on higher production and imports, Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. Production in the week rose 28,000 b/d to 922,000 b/d ...
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South Korea's state-owned Korea Gas Corp imported 12.61 million mt of LNG in the first quarter, up 0.5% from 12.55 million mt a year earlier, the company said in a statement Wednesday. All of the volumes were imported under long-term ...
Tags: LNG Imports, LNG
Northwest European methanol spot prices have fallen below Eur300/mt for the first time since October 2, 2012, under pressure from ample supplies in the market, according to sources. Platts assessed spot methanol at Eur299.50/mt ($411/mt) ...
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According to the 2013 fiscal year, the United States consumer products safety commission total monitoring more than 14000 batches of imported consumer goods, seized 12.5 million pieces of consumer goods without the requirements of the ...
Tags: Lead-Based Goods, Imports Goods, Service, Customs
Egypt and Peru have imposed a ban on imports of beef from Brazil following the confirmation of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease in Mato Grosso state, a major beef producer and importer in the country. ...
Tags: Egypt, Brazilian Beef
In the first four months this year, motor vehicle sales in Turkey totaled 179,379 units, decreasing by 25 percent year on year, according to the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD). Meanwhile, in April of the current year ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Vehicle Exports
Northwest European spot prices for vinyl acetate monomer tumbled Eur70/mt Thursday under pressure from Asian imports, according to Platts data. The European spot price for VAM was assessed at Eur1,560/mt FD NWE ($2,162.63/mt), down from ...
Tags: Vinyl Acetate Monomer, NWE
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced its final antidumping (AD) determinations regarding imports of certain alloy steel seamless tubes and pipes for high-temperature and high-pressure applications from the European Union, Japan ...
Tags: AD Duty, Seamless Pipes
European spot prices were rangebound Monday, with contracts generally finding support around Friday's closing levels as gas supply turns up to meet higher demand. Day-ahead gas contracts on the Dutch TTF hub have traded in a ...
Tags: European spot markets, Gas