India has improved its ranking as per the recent data released by ‘UN Comtrade’ in Global Textiles as well as Apparel Exports. In Global Textiles Exports, India now stands at second position beating its competitors like Italy, ...
Tags: Textile Exporter, Textile
China's Bohai Commodity Exchange, or BOCE, a government-backed online trading platform, has added molybdenum to its list of spot commodities, and this is expected to boost moly trade in the mainland and increase price transparency, industry ...
Tags: BOCE, online trading platform
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has raised its ex-works butadiene price in East China by Yuan 100/mt to Yuan 8,800/mt Friday, traders said. The latest price is equivalent to $1,182/mt on an import parity basis. But the ...
Tags: Sinopec, downstream markets
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.8 percent in May of the current year, up 0.4 percentage points compared to April and constituting the third consecutive month-on-month increase, according to ...
Tags: Manufacturing PMI
In the January-April period this year, year on year to 6.36 million mt, while the value of these exports totaled $5.30 billion, down 5.3 percent, both on year on year basis, according to the data released by the Turkish Iron and Steel ...
Tags: Steel Imports, steel pipe
According to the data announced by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), in April this year the value of Indonesia's iron and steel imports increased by 15.59 percent compared to the previous month, amounting to $778.4 million, while the country's ...
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in the first four months of this year the value of Turkey's iron and steel imports ...
Tags: Steel Import, iron
Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has signed a resolution related to financing of the proposed gas-chemical complex for manufacture of polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene in Balkan province. The complex would be built in ...
Tags: PP Plant, polypropylene
The Secretariat of Economy (SE), Government of Mexico, has concluded an antidumping investigation and imposed a definitive antidumping duty on imports of synthetic fibre (man-made fibre or MMF) blankets from China. Imports of synthetic ...
Tags: MMF Blankets, Antidumping Duty
Bangladesh, the second largest readymade garment exporter, has urged Japanese entrepreneurs to increase the share of Bangladeshi garments in their total apparel import from the current 1.77 percent to at least 10 percent. Speaking at a ...
Tags: Garments, readymade garment
The US sheet steel market might be in for another stretch of relative stability, as new upcoming outages balance import pressure and drab demand, market sources said Thursday. One industry consultant said manufacturing -- and thus steel ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, steel consumption
German utility group E.ON and Qatari producer RasGas have signed a three-year flexible deal to deliver up to 2 billion cubic meters of LNG over the term of the deal from Qatar to the UK's Isle of Grain LNG import terminal, where E.ON has ...
Tags: RasGas, LNG contracts
The bedding industry saw only modest growth last year, with units increasing 1.2% and the dollar value of wholesale bedding shipments increasing 2.4%, according to the industry’s official report of 2013 results. The 2013 Mattress ...
Platts Chinese import premiums for Good Western aluminum rose to $330-360/mt CFR plus LME cash Wednesday from $270-280/mt a week earlier as premiums in Europe, the US and Japan remained high. Western producers' offers to Japan for third ...
Tags: Aluminum Import, Import Premiums
The Japanese and Singaporean governments are moving to revise the economic partnership agreement they formed in 2002, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, expected to affirm the plan on Saturday. Japan will ...