The leading apparel and textile associations in the United State and Europe urged their respective trade commissioners March 10 to negotiate a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) that will end all apparel and textile ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Apparel, Footwear
A week of talking about ambitious plans for the Chinese economy was followed by a weekend of reality as key economic data were released. Journalists in Beijing flocked around a beleaguered spokesman whilst analysts elsewhere were cursing ...
Tags: Chinese economy, export data
Soybeans were sharply lower on fund and commercial selling. Ending stocks were down on the month at 145 million bushels, but that was still larger than expected. Additionally, it looks like traders are more focused on planting and quarterly ...
Tags: Soybeans, Agriculture, Food
The US Department of Commerce announced Wednesday its affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of grain-oriented electrical steel from the People’s Republic of China (China). ...
Tags: Electrical Steel, Mineral
China exported 4.8 million mt of finished steel in February this year, up 13.2 percent, while it exported 11.57 million mt of finished steel in the January-February period, rising by 26.3 percent, both year on year, according to data issued ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel Exports
In the January-February period of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to RMB 3.87 trillion ($632.35 billion), indicating a year-on-year rise of 0.9 percent, according to the Chinese customs authorities. In the given ...
Tags: Foreign Trade
Decree 456 of 2014, which partially amends the customs tariff and replaces Decree 074 of 2013, will become effective from March 30, the Government of Colombia has announced. As per the new decree, apparel with FOB price of less than or ...
Tags: Apparel Import, Apparel, Import Tariffs
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil and gas developer, has become the first Chinese firm licensed to look for oil in the Arctic, a landmark step for overseas energy exploration for the world's ...
Tags: Arctic Oil, Mineral
The Indian government has been caught between the conflicting demands of iron ore miners and steel producers regarding the recently imposed five percent export duty on iron ore pellets, a government official said on Wednesday, March 5. As ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Export Duty
The Directorate General of Safeguards, Customs and Central Excise, Government of India, has initiated safeguard investigation concerning imports of bare elastomeric filament yarn, commonly known as spandex, into India. In its notice, ...
Tags: Spandex Imports, Textile
Japan's LNG imports in January rose 1.2% from December to 8.18 million mt but fell 0.8% year on year, data released Thursday by the Ministry of Finance showed. Australia was the largest supplier with 1.73 million mt of LNG, up 10.4% year ...
Tags: LNG Imports, Chemicals
Shen Danyang, spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC), has stated that the MOC holds a cautious but optimistic view on China's foreign trade situation in 2014 and is confident that the country's foreign trade will indicate similar ...
Tags: Customs data, Mineral
In 2013, Kyrgyzstan produced textiles and garments valued at 7.6 billion soms, according to the Ministry of Energy and Industry. Segment-wise, the textile production was 1.206 billion soms, while clothing accounted for 6.394 billion ...
Tags: Kyrgyz Textile, Apparel Output, Textile
China's crude oil imports from Iran in January jumped 82.2% year on year to 2.4 million mt, or an average 566,856 b/d, according to final data released by the General Administration of Customs on Wednesday. The imports were also up 11.2% ...
Tags: Crude Imports, Crude
China's crude oil imports from Iran in January jumped 82.2% year on year to 2.4 million mt, or an average 566,856 b/d, according to final data released by the General Administration of Customs on Wednesday. The imports were also up 11.2% ...
Tags: Crude Imports, Mineral