The United States imported textiles and apparel worth US$ 104.724 billion in 2013, registering an increase of 3.76 percent over imports of $100.931 billion made in 2012, according to the latest Major Shippers Report, released by the U.S. ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel Imports
The US Department of Agriculture is projecting domestic 2013-2014 soybean production to total 3.289 billion bushels, unchanged from the January estimate, data showed Monday. Projected soybean supplies in the USDA's February World ...
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Pakistan's iron and steel scrap imports amounted to 134,911 mt in December last year,increasing 27.05 percent compared to November and up 11.20 percent year on year,according to the data released by the Pakistan Federal Bureau of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Metallurgy
US Department of Commerce announced its preliminary determination regarding the "critical circumstances" allegations in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation on imports of certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India and ...
Tags: OCTG, antidumping, oil
The Government of Ghana is committed to protect the country’s textile industry and it would take decisions as and when necessary for the purpose, Haruna Iddrissu, Minister of Trade and Industry has said. Speaking at a ...
Tags: Local Textiles, Textile
For the year 2014, the German clothing industry is expecting positive development, and clothing sales are estimated to increase by 3.75 percent year-on-year, said Gerd Oliver Seidensticker, president of the German Fashion Association ...
Tags: German Clothing, Apparel
The Spanish textiles Export Price Index (IPRIX), for the month of December 2013, shows a decline of 0.6 percent, compared to the same month in 2012, as per the data released by National Institute of Statistics in Spain. According to ...
Tags: Textile Export, Textile
Cotton is no longer a strategic crop for Tajikistan, Minister of Agriculture Qosim Qosimov said at a press conference in Dushanbe, avesta news agency reported. However, the Minister clarified that it would not mean abandoning cotton ...
Tags: Strategic Crop, Cotton
China predicted to use 45 billion cubic meters of gas by 2030 As China strives to convert to cleaner energy, its liquefied natural gas production capacity will soar in 2014, with higher profits supporting more projects. Fifty-five ...
Tags: LNG Growth, Mineral
Polish biodiesel production jumped almost 11% on the year to 184,684 mt in the third quarter of 2013, the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) said Thursday. A local market source attributed the rise to strong downstream diesel demand bolstering ...
Tags: Biodiesel Production, Chemicals
China's commerce ministry called on the United States on Sunday to stop anti-dumping investigations into imports of solar power products from China, expressing "serious concern" and vowing to defend its producers. US trade officials on ...
China saw its aggregate volume of natural gas imported from overseas jump 25 percent year on year in 2013, approaching one-third of its apparent consumption, a new report has showed. The country imported 53 billion cubic meters of natural ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Chemicals
BEIJING-A preliminary ruling by the Ministry of Commerce on Friday said solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union(EU)has been dumped in the Chinese market. Solar-grade polysilicon from the EU was subsidized and as a ...
Tags: Eu Polysilicon, Polysilicon, solar cells, solar
Rapidly increasing natural gas demand led to a surge in imports to China last year. Total consumption of natural gas last year rose 13.9 percent with total consumption hitting 167.6 billion cubic meters, according to a report by China ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Petroleum
Canada has announced its second case of the PED virus, also in Ontario. The U.S. ended 2013 with PED on 2,000 farms and has added another 600 this month. The impact of the virus is pushing summer hog futures contracts close to record highs. ...
Tags: PED Virus