The US Commerce Department said Thursday that it has launched anti-dumping and countervailing investigations over imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China. The investigations are in response to a petition ...
Tags: photovoltaic products, Mineral
Countervailing, antidumping duties to be levied if injury to US found Chinese companies are actively responding to the latest United States anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the solar products field, aiming to prove they did ...
Tags: Tariff Investigation, Solar Panel
China would see a greater shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, says a latest report prepared by the economics and technological research institute under the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), according to an article ...
Tags: Px Shortage, Px
China's apparent demand for gas in December rose 14.1% year on year to a record high of 16.26 billion cu m, according to Platts calculations of recently released government data. China does not release consumption data on gas. Platts ...
Tags: natural gas, gas demand
Supply offers nation more import sources, enhances energy security Energy-rich Russia has started delivering crude oil to China as of the beginning of the year after the contract signed between the two countries last June, which will ...
Tags: Oil, energy security
Platts margins reflect the difference between a crude's netback and its spot price. Netbacks are based on crude yields, which are calculated by applying Platts product price assessments to yield formulas designed by Turner, Mason & Co. ...
Tags: Gas, Refining Margins
US sheet steel prices are turning lower, sources said Thursday, due to a combination of lackluster demand, import concerns, and a slight weakening of discipline at the mill level. Platts lowered its hot-rolled coil assessment from ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, Weak Demand
The USDA catfish inspection program, first authorized in 2008, is continued in the 2014 farm bill, which also includes a first-of-its-kind “crop insurance” program for catfish farmers. Most of the so-called political experts ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November last year Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 368,628 mt, up by 15.83 percent year on year and up 67.22 percent on month-on-month basis. Meanwhile, the ...
Tags: Coking Coal, the value ofimports
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday its final results in the administrative review of the antidumping order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico. The review originally covered three Mexican ...
Tags: Rectangular Pipe, Mineral
Structural reforms and the start of infrastructure projects from the federal government will bring a boost in demand for steel in Mexico, said Verónica Orendain, manager of Heavy and High-Tech Industries of the Mexican Ministry of ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Mineral
European olefin buyers said they are more optimistic about a decrease in ethylene contract prices than propylene for February, amid tightness in propylene. Buyers are aiming for a fall in both contract prices following the direction of ...
Tags: Spot propylene, CIF NWE, FD NWE, deep sea import
HONG KONG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department (CSD) released the external merchandise trade statistics Monday, according to which the value of total exports of goods rose by 3.6 percent in 2013 over 2012, and ...
Tags: CSD, U.S.Federal Reserve, exports
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q1 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in 2013 European Union (EU) steel imports are estimated to decline by 9.5 percent year on ...
Tags: steel imports, steel market
Commission encourages Chinese steelmakers to boost global footprint Chinese steelmakers that have lost money because of volatile global iron ore prices should invest more in foreign mineral resources to gain greater pricing power, the ...
Tags: NDRC, Chalco, steelmaker, persist