"Trade is about facilitating commercial exchange across borders and protectionist measures at EU borders will automatically trigger defensive measures and close export and investment markets", says a top official of a European trade body. ...
A British watchmaker has called time on the Swiss domination of the luxury timepiece industry. Christopher Ward, founded by Mike France, Peter Ellis and Chris Ward, has created a brand new, British-owned watch movement, breaking away ...
Tags: Swiss Watch, Watch
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis remained steady for the fourth consecutive week amid thin trade, market sources said Wednesday. Sources said physical buying interest ...
Tags: Copper Cathode, Copper, Metallurgy
Swedish producer of vegetable oils and fats solutions AAK has outlined plans to build a specialty and semi-specialty edible oils factory in China, with an estimated outlay of about $56.34m. To be built in Zhangjiagang along the Yangtze ...
Tags: Edible Oils, AAK, vegetable oils
Corn prices continue to be dominated by expectations of a very large U.S. harvest. The USDA will release a new forecast of the size of the crop on September 11. The market expectation is that the new forecast will be about 250 million ...
Tags: Agriculture, Corn
According to the statistics released by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, in the January-July period of this year France's basic steel product and ferroalloy exports amounted to a value of €5.75 billion, increasing ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel Product
Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that in the January-August period this year its overall shipments of steel products by railway declined by one percent year on year to 7.65 million mt. In the given period, shipments by railway to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Steel Product
In July this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 22.76 million mt, increasing by 2.1 percent year on year and decreasing by 5.18 percent compared to June, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of ...
In the first seven months of this year, Russia's ferrous metal export volume increased by 7.5 percent year on year to 22.861 million mt, worth a total of $12.1 billion, up four percent year on year, according to the State Statistics ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Mineral
In Sweden, industrial production decreased by 1.1 percent in July this year compared to June and decreased by 5.7 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
In August of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $367.094 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 4.0 percent, according to the Chinese customs authorities on September 8. In the given period, the total ...
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) chairman, Muhammad Yasin Siddik, has urged the Government of Pakistan to clear the outstanding tax refunds, as committed by the Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Muhammad Ishaq ...
Tags: Textile, tax refunds, Apparel
Taiwan photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers have received rush orders since the end of August, leading to higher utilization rates and boosting optimism among Taiwan PV producers about demand in September. Yet Chinese demand remains weak as ...
Tags: Photovoltaic Industry, Sloar Cell
To get more orders from global markets, Bangladeshi apparel exporters should concentrate on manufacturing more value added products, South Korean envoy to Bangladesh said. Bangladeshi textile and apparel industry should move beyond ...
Tags: Apparels
China-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers, considering that China government's temporary ban on polysilicon imports through export processing zones to block evasion of anti-dumping and anti-subsidization taxes is likely to ...