The exports of textiles and apparel from Pakistan increased by 8.28 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of the financial year 2013-14 that began on July 1, according to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Textile Exports, apparel, cotton
The US Energy Information Administration says that in September 2013, China’s net imports of petroleum and other liquids exceeded those of the United States on a monthly basis, making it the largest net importer of crude oil and other ...
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Imports will account for close to 80% of China's iron ore requirements by 2016 as deteriorating ore quality makes more domestic supply uncompetitive in a lower price environment, China Hanking chief executive Guocheng Pan told an industry ...
Tags: Iron Ore Supply, Iron, Steel
Coal stocks at China's four major Bohai Sea ports totaled 17.785 million mt on Sunday, down 1.34 mt or 7.0% week-on-week, Qinhuangdao Port said Monday. Coal stocks at Qinhuangdao Port dropped 7.3% week-on-week to 6.36 million mt on ...
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January aluminum demand in the US and Canada -- measured as shipments by domestic producers plus imports -- totaled an estimated 2.018 billion lb, down 2.9% from January 2013, according to preliminary estimates from the Aluminum ...
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China's February alumina imports rose 31.4% year on year to 460,000 mt, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs late Monday. However, the February imports fell 28.1% from January. Over January-February, ...
Tags: alumina imports, aluminum, alloys
When it comes to manufacturing, supplying, exporting and importing, India comes first in all these. Indian export and import chemical business becomes one of the global hubs for traders in the past two years. Indian chemical industry is one ...
The UK's imports of thermal coal in January rose 14% on the month and 3% on the year to 3.46 million mt, according to customs data released Friday. The month's jump in imports was driven by an 84% increase on the month in deliveries from ...
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An industry group representing Chinese iron ore miners aims to satisfy 50% of the country's annual iron ore consumption with domestic supply by 2025, up from the current 30%, via consolidation and expansion of mining companies, a senior ...
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State-owned PetroChina lost some Yuan 49 billion ($7.9 billion) last year importing natural gas from foreign suppliers and selling it at lower domestic prices in China, the company revealed Thursday when it released its 2013 financial ...
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Textiles and apparel from Ukraine are likely to get tariff exemption in the EU market from as early as May this year, as the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament has backed a plan to remove tariffs on imports from ...
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
The frenzied pace of infrastructural developments in South Africa and Kenya is growing the market for thermoset resins in both countries. Significant government investment, especially in low-cost housing, road and other non-domestic ...
Tags: Construction, Chemicals, Decoration, Thermoset Resins
According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first two months of the current year amounted to 5.35 million metric tons, 0.1 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
Tags: Steel Exports, crude steel, steelmakers
Not content with selling gas domestically, some of China's private gas distribution companies are becoming increasingly ambitious and are planning to enter the LNG import business, competing directly with state-owned LNG buyers such as ...
Tags: Gas, LNG Imports, Natural Gas