The EU and Japan officially launched the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The aim is for a comprehensive agreement in goods, services and investment eliminating tariffs, non-tariff barriers and covering other trade-related ...
Tags: trade, Free Trade, Free Trade Agreement
In February, the Port of Charleston, South Carolina experienced its 12th consecutive month of year-over-year growth as container volume increased nearly 11 percent compared to February 2012 with 131,634 20-foot equivalent units (TUEs) ...
Tags: Container Volume, US Ports, Mineral
Alacero, the Latin American Steel Association, has reported substantially improved steel consumption throughout Latin American countries in 2012, although steel production declined. Latin American crude steel production was 66 million ...
The US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced Friday that total December exports of $186.4 billion and imports of $224.9 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $38.5 ...
Tags: Trade Deficit, economy, import&export
According to the data issued by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, in the January-November period of the last year Ukrainian exports of steel pipes decreased by 3.2 percent year on year to 1.467 million mt, worth a total of $1.771 billion. In ...
Tags: steel pipe imports, steel pipe, steel pipes
In the year of 2012, in face of the increasingly complicated and severe international situation and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Central Party Committee and the State Council took scientific development ...
According to the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine (Ukrstat), in the first 11 months of last year Ukraine's ferrous metal exports decreased by 18.3 percent year on year to a total value of $14.25billion. Meanwhile, in the given period ...
Tags: Ukraine, Ukrstat, ferrous metal, exports
Steelhome website publishes monthly report on China Steel Market, International Steel Market, HRC/CRC, Construction Steel, Medium Plate, Stainless Steel, Iron Ore, Coke, Scrap and Ferroalloy each month. Summary: I Review on China steel ...
China is looking to allocate a value-added tax (VAT) permit to all rare earth companies in a desperate effort to curb resource plundering, dangerous artisanal mining and widespread pollution, as well as collecting revenue. By forcing rare ...
Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, Metallurgy
The mining sector's bellwether companies were all beaten down on Monday after China's premier Wen Jiabao delivered a downbeat outlook for the world's second largest economy adding that there were "new problems" to deal with. China will ...
Tags: China, Coal, Copper, Finance, Iron Ore, Lead, Nickel, Potash, Rare Earth, Zinc
In the first three quarters of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled ...
Wider access earned to the 27-nation European Union (EU) bloc under the Autonomous Trade Preference (ATP) Scheme can help Pakistani textile exporters boost their exports to that market. Briefing media, Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and ...
Tags: ATP, EU, textile exporters, FCCI, Briefing media
According to the data issued by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, in the January to October period of the current year Ukrainian exports of steel pipes decreased by 1.2% YoY to 1.352 million tonnes worth a total of USD 1.632 billion. In ...
Tags: Ukraine, exports, steel pipe, steel, steel market
Economy (i) GDP Through rough calculation, the GDP of Hainan province in 2005 is 90.36 billion RMB. Converted by the present rate of exchange, the GDP per capita of Hainan is about 1,357 US dollar. Sketch Map on GDP Growth Rate of ...
Tags: Hainan Province, survey, economy, investment
(i) GDP In 2005, the GDP of Xinjiang reached RMB 260.4 billion yuan, 19% of which was produced by the primary industry, 44.7% by the secondary industry and 36.3% by the tertiary industry. The per capita GDP was RMB 13,108 yuan, equal to ...
Tags: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, survey, economy, investment