In the first two months of this year, motor vehicle sales in Turkey totaled 71,790 units, decreasing by 18 percent year on year, according to the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD). Meanwhile, in February of the current year ...
Tags: motor, vehicle, passenger car
The exports of apparel and clothing accessories from Philippines surged by 45.71 percent year-on-year to US$ 145.445 million in January 2014, according to the data released by the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA). The share of ...
The apparel sector of Greece ended the year 2013 on a positive note with significant rise in exports, which is for the first time since 2006, as per the data released by the Greek Association of Knitwear-Hellenic Fashion Industry ...
Tags: Apparel, knitted garments
The taskforce constituted by the Ghanaian Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) to exercise a check on imports of illegally copied Ghanaian textile prints has cautioned traders against the sale of pirated Ghanaian textile designs and ...
Tags: Textile
U.S. net textile and apparel fiber imports rose in calendar year 2013, a first in 3 years as improved economic conditions pushed consumer demand higher. Total fiber product imports approached 17.6 billion raw-fiber-equivalent pounds in ...
Tags: textile, apparel, cotton fiber
BIFA, the British international Freight Association, says that media reports suggest there could be a significant increase in the price of wooden pallets over the coming months due to timber shortages. A recent meeting of the Timber ...
Tags: Wooden Pallet, Construction, timber
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that Canada and South Korea have concluded negotiations on a free trade agreement, under which, the Canadian tariffs on imports of South Korean cars will be phased out over a period of ...
Tags: concluded negotiations, new agreement, automotive markets
China-based polysilicon makers are poised to recommend that the China government set a floor import price of US$26/kg for Europe-produced polysilicon in place of imposing anti-dumping tariff rates, according to PV industry sources in ...
Tags: polysilicon, low prices
Toray Industries is bolstering production of high-performance fibers in emerging countries in Asia to reap the benefits of anticipated demand growth. “Textiles is a growth industry if you look at it on the global scale,” said ...
Tags: Textiles, expanding emerging markets, strengthening supply systems
The People’s Committee of Vietnam’s Nam Dinh province has issued an investment license to China-based Jiangsu Julun Textiles Group Co. Ltd. for constructing a US$ 68 million factory, Vietnam Plus reported. The new textile ...
Tags: Textile Project, Garment, Vinatex
France must urgently implement new rules to oblige shippers to import LNG after new gas capacity auctions indicated a massive increase in prices in France's southern PEG Sud market in the coming years, intensive users group UNIDEN said late ...
Tags: LNG Imports, gas capacity, LNG terminals
With US refineries expanding their capacity to process more domestic light oil in the coming years, the US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday said it expects refinery crude inputs to reach 15.52 million b/d this year and 15.61 ...
Tags: US Refinery, Domestic Production, light oil
Cold winter conditions have hampered well-completion activity in the US, prompting the Energy Information Administration to revise downward its projections of US crude output for this year. The EIA, in its March Short-Term Energy Outlook, ...
Turkish steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann has told SteelOrbis that the company's US oil country tubular goods (OCTG) investment in Houston, Texas remains on track within the projected schedule, with the threading facility already being ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
Tags: Self-Sufficiency Policy, farmers