Brazil and the U.S. have ended a longstanding trade battle. The two countries have been fighting since 2002 over subsidies that the U.S. government provides to U.S. cotton growers. Brazil brought a case against the U.S. charging that the ...
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During his presentation at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting being held in Berlin on September 28-30, Bernd Neuenkirchen from international steel trading company C&F International commented on both current and ...
Tags: US Producers, Turkish Rebar, Energy
FFA executive committee member theo zwanziger said the 2022 world cup will not take place in quatar due the extreme heat in the Middle Eastern country. It was not clear if he was ruling out the location or the dates. Other FIFA officials ...
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Boyd Coatings Research Co., Inc. has announced the availability of fifteen colors of PVDF (Polyvinylidene Difluoride) coatings – all of which have undergone the rigors of recent biocompatibility testing and been declared suitable for ...
In response to the US DOC’s final determinations in the antidumping/countervailing duty case against rebar imports from Mexico, Raúl Gutiérrez Muguerza, director of Deacero, said he is confident that the defense of this ...
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Truckers have another option under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Oberon Fuel's biogas-based dimethyl ether (DME). The EPA approved Oberon Fuel's biogas-based DME as meeting its RFS and ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Service, Fuel, Energy
Quoting trade sources, the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) says, if agro climatic conditions are favourable, Indian cotton production could reach above 400 lakh (40 million) bales in the 2014-15 season and that overall acreage may jump by ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton, Textile
China has imposed fine of $202m on twelve Japanese car parts makers for allegedly price-fixing. The ruling came after Chinese regulators raided foreign companies including Mitsubishi Electric, Sumitomo Electric, Audi, BMW, Daimler, and ...
Tags: Car, Fines, Auto Parts
The National Retail Federation (NRF) has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that left the cap on debit card swipe fees at 21 cents rather than reducing it to a lower level. A petition asking the Supreme Court to ...
Despite net sales tumbling more than 43 percent, US-based Hampshire Group, a provider of fashion apparel managed to hike its gross profit margin by 100 basis points in the second quarter of 2014. Net sales at Hampshire Group plunged to ...
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s finance minister said Wednesday that the country is not planning any new stimulus measures and it is up to the United States to drive the global economy. Lou Jiwei said that leaders are satisfied with ...
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St. Jude Medical and Volcano Corp. have apparently decided to stand down when it comes to lawsuits related to technologies including tunable lasers used in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems. The two companies have agreed ...
Wineries of all sizes across the nation, and Massachusetts adults, have a reason to be cheered by Governor Patrick's signature on the state budget today, which included a long anticipated revision to the state's wine shipping law. "We ...
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British trade body Portman Group has announced that French wines and spirits firm Pernod Ricard has failed to meet the alcohol marketing rules. The company is said to have failed to communicate the alcoholic nature of its Pernod spirit ...
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The packaging of 500ml cans of Tennent’s Super, a 9% ABV beer produced by AB InBev UK, has been found to encourage immoderate consumption after a ruling by the Independent Complaints Panel (Panel). The product packaging was ...
Tags: Tennent's Super, cans, Agriculture