Iranian petrochemical traders currently sell all their products on a CFR basis in Asia instead of FOB to avoid payment issues, trade sources in Iran and Dubai said Tuesday. "We sell products on a CFR basis in countries like China so as to ...
Tags: Petrochemical
Nuns in Buddhist nunneries cut out of colourful thin silk patterns of toads, lizards, spiders, snakes and centipedes and distribute them to their benefactors to be posted on doors and in bedrooms before the Dragon Boat Festival. It is ...
Tags: Poisonous Pests
A fall in the value of China's currency against the dollar has increased the losses incurred by the country's copper importers in May, Chinese industry sources said Thursday. The US dollar was trading at Yuan 6.26 Thursday, compared with ...
Tags: Copper Importers, metals
In April this year, China imported 47 million mt of iron ore from Australia, up 45.8 percent year on year, accounting for 56.4 percent of China's total iron ore import volume of 83.39 million mt during the given month, as announced by the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Imports
The Asian butadiene/naphtha spread narrowed to an eight-month low of $329.38/mt Monday, following the closure of the arbitrage window to move Asian butadiene to the US Gulf Coast. The spread value was last lower on September 12, 2013, ...
The exports of fabric and garments from the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam jumped 21.3 percent year-on-year to US$ 5.991 billion in the first four months of 2014, according to the preliminary data released by the Customs IT & Statistics ...
Tags: Fabric Exports, Garment Exports
According to customs statistics, in the first quarter of 2014, the national import and export is 5.9 trillion yuan, fell by 3.7% year-on-year. Among them, the export is 3 trillion yuan, down 6.1%; Imports is 2.9 trillion yuan, down 1.2%; ...
Tags: Economy, Foreign Trade, China
In the January-April period this year, the volume of metallurgical coke exports from China's Shanxi Province indicated a 5.1-fold year-on-year increase to 329,000 mt, according to the customs authorities in Taiyuan, capital city of Shanxi, ...
Tags: Coke Exports, metallurgical coke
South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 55,207 mt in March this year, decreasing by 57.7 percent compared to February and down 39.5 percent ...
Tags: Carbon, Alloy Steel
South Korea's imports of Iranian crude in April increased 8.9% year on year to 552,884 mt, or an average 135,088 b/d, from 507,821 mt a year ago, preliminary data released Thursday by the Korea Customs Service showed. Its April Iranian ...
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Strong regional multi-stakeholder partnerships will be the key for a dynamic, flexible and growth-driven petrochemicals industry, said industry experts at the sixth Supply Chain conference, organized by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals ...
Tags: Petrochem, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the 2013 fiscal year, the United States consumer products safety commission total monitoring more than 14000 batches of imported consumer goods, seized 12.5 million pieces of consumer goods without the requirements of the ...
Tags: Lead-Based Goods, Imports Goods, Service, Customs
Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.5 percent in May as negotiators prepare to begin talks on a new contract for West Coast dockworkers, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker ...
Tags: Retail Imports, retail container
Exports of Russian acetone dropped to just 2,666 mt in March after the explosion at the Omsk acetone plant forced other Russian producers to shift their focus to the domestic market, the latest data published by the Federal Customs Service ...
Tags: Acetone, acetone plant
The spread between Asian paraxylene and benzene fell to its lowest in more than nine years on Thursday, where it was assessed at minus $104/mt, down $0.50/mt from the the day before, Platts data showed. The last time the spread was lower ...
Tags: Paraxylene, Benzene