China's crude oil imports in December rose 8% year on year to 23.67 million mt, or an average of 5.6 million b/d, according to preliminary trade data released Thursday by the General Administration of Customs. The volume is 1.9% lower ...
South Korea has diversified its sources of rare earth minerals in order to diminish reliance upon monopoly supplier China,which currently accounts for over 90%of global production. Global Times reported last month that South Korea's ...
Tags: South Korea, rare earth minerals, Japan, China
Japan imported 6.66 million mt of LNG in November, almost stable from October, when imports were recorded at 6.67 million mt, customs data released Thursday by the Ministry of Finance showed. However, LNG imports were down 4.5% from ...
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Proactive Investors reported that iron ore miners appear set for a sustained bull run as iron ore prices resurge after declining five straight months on the back of strong Chinese growth and falling inventories. Fortescue Metals Group was ...
Tags: China, Iron Ore, Proactive Investors, iron ore prices, metal market
Chinese thermal coal imports stormed to a record monthly high of 14.45 million mt in November, a rise of 30% compared with October's mark, boosted by higher Indonesian shipments, according to China customs data released Friday. ...
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Chinese authorities have added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance on the top of the 10,546 tonnes it had already allocated to 11 state-sanctioned miners this year. It is something of a meaningless exercise because during the ...
Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, USA
News from unnamed sources that quoted unnamed analysts that China has started stockpiling rare earths had the industry buzzing this week. But unfortunately none of it had the desired effect and the stocks of REE miners and explorers ...
Tags: Rarest element, REE, rare earths industry, REE miners
In lunchtime trade on Friday Molycorp was changing hands for $19.93, down $1.14 or 5.4%, on bad news about global rare earth demand and as investors continue to digest the company's results out last week. On Friday customs data from China ...
Tags: rare earth, Rare earthquake, elements, Mountain Pass mine
In the first three quarters of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled ...
May 15,-in the spring this year at the fair, the domestic bags &luggage enterprise to Europe and the United States the customer's order to reduce. Well, in where the king of foreign trade the company for quick 8 years. Like many small and ...
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MNA reported that South Korea's imports of oil from Iran increased 2.9%in November from October,when it resumed shipments from the Persian Gulf nation. According to data posted on the Korea Customs Service's website,purchases last month ...
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Reuters reported that China's imports of both iron ore and crude oil were the second highest on record in November,providing encouraging signals on demand for commodities in the world's second largest economy. The strength in consumption ...
Bloomberg reported that iron ore inventories in China,the biggest user of the steelmaking ingredient,dropped to the lowest levels in 2 years as higher demand pushed up prices. According to weekly data from researcher Beijing Antaike ...
According to statistics released by the China's customs, China's imports of cold rolled (CR) steel products totaled 230,000 tons in October, declining substantially by 15.1% from a month ago and decreasing by 14.2% year on year. ...
Two new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants have become operational in China, which has led to a rise in demand and consequently an increase in imports of paraxylene (PX) in September 2012. A new plant with capacity to produce 1.5 ...
Tags: PX imports, purified terephthalic acid, paraxylene, PX