China-based polysilicon makers are poised to recommend that the China government set a floor import price of US$26/kg for Europe-produced polysilicon in place of imposing anti-dumping tariff rates, according to PV industry sources in ...
Tags: polysilicon, low prices
Germany-based PV module maker Aleo Solar AG is as competitive as China-based makers in terms of production cost in the Europe, Japan and US markets, MK Lu, chairman for Taiwan-based solar wafer supplier Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS), ...
Tags: PV Module, solar wafer
Japan plans to slash by half the amount of juvenile bluefin tuna taken from the Northern Pacific starting in 2015, compared to the 2002-2004 average, reports said Sunday. The Fisheries Agency has decided to increase protection for bluefin ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
China's Ministry of Commerce late Monday announced a second list of companies that will receive part of the 5,387 mt of export quotas for silver in 2014. The ministry in mid-December released the first list of Chinese producers and ...
Tags: Silver Export, Metallurgy
Agropur Cooperative today held its 75th Annual General Assembly with some 600 members, employees, business partners and guests from the Agri-Food industry in attendance, and reported solid financial health and a strong market position, ...
The Chinese government has issued a gasoil export quota of 1.9 million mt to state-owned traders Chinaoil and Unipec, sources said Friday. Unipec, the trading arm of state-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, is ...
Recently, according to data from the GTA, Russia is the country which with the most trade protectionism policy in the world in 2013, 20% of the world and the Belarus is not far behind. These policies are including reducing the quota of ...
Tags: Service, Economy, Trade Protectionism
The average price for December milk in the U.S. is $21.80 per hundredweight, up 20 cents from November. Wisconsin's milk price for December is expected to be $21.90, up a dime from November, California is projected to average $20.50 up 49 ...
Tags: Dairy Prices, Agriculture News, Farming News
Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina is seeking 5.4 million kiloliters of fatty acid methyl ester over 2014-2014 for gasoil blending through tender, company officials said late Thursday. The tender, which is limited to domestic companies ...
Tags: fatty acid methyl ester, Chemicals
The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) and Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) released the latest beef trade data last week. The data for October, the latest month available, showed beef and veal exports up 5.4% over last year with the ...
Tags: Cattle Markets, Beef Exports
China's Ministry of Commerce on Monday said it expected steady overseas demand for rare earths to continue next year. The ministry made the statement while announcing the first round of 2014 export quotas for non-ferrous metals including ...
Tags: Rare Earths
Timely action by the U.S. Grains Council, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative averted a patently protectionist seasonal market closure in Panama, keeping this important market open for U.S. corn exports. ...
China's rejection of US corn that contains an unapproved genetically modified strain is unlikely to cause major price fluctuations in the domestic or US markets, analysts said. Quarantine authorities in four provinces have rejected 12 ...
Tags: US corn, genetically modified strain, price fluctuations
The recent crackdown on a major rare earth smuggling case has again raised concerns about China's illegal rare earth mining and trading. In November,customs of Baotou City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,the world's ...
Tags: rare earth smuggling, illegal rare earth, rare earth mining and trading
Chinese rare earth miners are being forced to phase out excessive production capacity as rising overseas suppliers chip away at their dominance in the global market. Russia announced in April its plan to invest $1 billion in rare earth ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Mineral