The government of Pakistan has announced some new tax measures in its federal budget 2014-15, introducing 10 percent customs duty on flat rolled silicon and alloy steel imports to bring them to a par with flat rolled products of non- alloy ...
Tags: Import Duty, Alloy Flat Steel
In May this year, production and sales of automotive vehicles in China amounted to 1.9758 million units and 1.9112 million units, down by 4.4 percent and 4.6 percent month on month respectively, while up 11 percent and 8.5 percent year on ...
Tags: Auto Output, automotive vehicles
Spot treatment charges for imported zinc concentrates paid to Chinese smelters are in the range of $140-155/mt in June, up around 5% from $135-145/mt in May, Chinese zinc industry sources said Tuesday. The increase for the second month ...
Tags: Zinc Smelter, Zinc Industry
The Tirupur Exporters' Association (TEA) is in favour of extension of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to the garment sector. At a Pre-Budget consultations meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ...
Import volume at major U.S. container ports is expected to increase 7.5 percent in June as retailers bring unusually high quantities of merchandise into the country early to avoid any potential disruptions after the labor contract with West ...
Tags: Apparel
Impacted by increased demand from China, Japan, USA, and UK, PV installation is likely to grow substantially in 2014, and thus will lead to a surge in overall supply chain prices. “In 1H13, cell and module prices were the first ones ...
Tags: Solar Products, PV Capacity
China's Bohai Commodity Exchange, or BOCE, a government-backed online trading platform, has added molybdenum to its list of spot commodities, and this is expected to boost moly trade in the mainland and increase price transparency, industry ...
Tags: BOCE, online trading platform
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in April this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased by 30.3 percent to $7.21 ...
Tags: Steel Export, iron steel
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in the first four months of this year the value of Turkey's iron and steel imports ...
Tags: Steel Import, iron
The Secretariat of Economy (SE), Government of Mexico, has concluded an antidumping investigation and imposed a definitive antidumping duty on imports of synthetic fibre (man-made fibre or MMF) blankets from China. Imports of synthetic ...
Tags: MMF Blankets, Antidumping Duty
Editor's Note: The Dragon Boat Festival falls on every May 5 of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival, bearing the 2000-plus years'Chinese culture and undergoing the ablution of the long history, is still shining for its rich ...
Tags: Dragon Boat, Dragon Boat Festival
US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker presented the Port of Everett with the President’s “E” Award for Export Service at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The “E” Awards are the highest recognition ...
The Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade has announced that it has found preliminary evidence of dumping in seamless pipe imports from Ukraine. The antidumping duty investigation was launched in February this ...
Tags: Seamless Pipe, antidumping duty
In April this year, China exported 339,407 mt of stainless flat steel products, up 38.67 percent over 244,780 mt in March, and up 72.39 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data from the Chinese customs ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Flat Steel
Iran is loading eight LPG cargoes totaling 317,000 mt in May for export to Asia, the biggest monthly volume since resuming shipments in May 2013 following an eight-month halt on concerns over an EU ban on shipping insurance, shipping and ...