The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has stated that it is going to pay more attention to the development of the Lvov coal region in Ukraine due to the difficult situation affecting coal companies in the Lugansk and Donetsk ...
Tags: Coal Output, Coal Industry
Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Ukraine have contested the standardised packaging laws, calling them an illegal restriction on trade, but the panel of judges said there won’t be a WTO ruling until at the first half ...
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In September this year, Ukraine exported $19.296 million worth of pig iron, while its pig iron imports totaled a value of $0.167 million, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Revenue and Duties. Italy was the main importer of Ukrainian pig ...
Tags: pig iron, pig iron imports
In the first nine months of this year, Ukraine's ferroalloy production increased by 35.1 percent compared to the same period last year to 780,100 mt, as stated by the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers (UkrFA). Accordingly, in ...
Tags: Ferroalloy Output, ferromanganese
Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (Ilyich), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that in September it has commenced a large-scale general repair ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron, Steel
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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When the U.S. is switching to midterm election time, the media's attention is usually focused on domestic issues. It is not that international affairs are not important, but comparatively the public that is overwhelmed by local issues often ...
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Format-wise, the Obama Administration's policies in the Ukraine crisis appear to have troubles in two aspects: the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific and containment of Russia. First, national strength in the United States is falling short of ...
Tags: Service, Economy Cooperation, Opinion
China stands to gain much more than oil from deepening Western sanctions on Russia. Already in May, Moscow's tenuous international position prompted it to make concessions in order to sign a landmark gas supply agreement – the "Power ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Kim Marti, international sales director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, said that the key risks to the global economy, such as geopolitical tensions ...
According to the data released by Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in August this year Ukraine exported $215.5 million worth of long steel products, while imports of these products totaled $8.19 million. Despite the ...
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According to the data released by Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in August this year Ukraine exported $309.5 million worth of semi-finished steel products, while imports of these products totaled $6.08 million in ...
Tags: Semi-Finished Steel
Russia's auto market shows no signs of improving in the next two years, having been hit by an economic slowdown and the weak rouble, according to media reports. Sanctions over Ukraine have hurt the Russian economy, hitting car sales to a ...
Tags: Russian, Demand, Metallurgy
In August this year, Ukraine exported $82.398 million worth of steel pipes, while its steel pipe imports totaled a value of $6.68 million, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Revenue and Duties. Despite the tense situation between the two ...
Tags: Steel Pipe
Global crude steel production in August this year increased by 1.4 percent year on year to 134.96 million metric tons, while a 1.36 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). ...
Tags: crude steel, steel production