As the tax authority said, China's pilot program to replace business tax with value-added tax (VAT) reduced tax revenue by 191.8 billion yuan ($30.7 billion) in 2014, the tax authority said Wednesday. The country expanded the VAT reform to ...
Tags: VAT Reform, Tax
As innovation in engine-powered two-wheel transportation accelerates, the market for e-bicycles is expected to expand. The technological trends contributing to this development include combined throttle-control and pedal-assist models, ...
Tags: E-Bicycles, 3D-printed bicycles, Lights
Taiwan-based solar cell makers are poised to lose the US market in 2015, as a result of anti-dumping tariffs to be imposed on them starting from February. The US Department of Commerce (DOC) will impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidization ...
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Hardide Coatings, Inc., a UK-based provider of advanced surface coating technology, has today announced investment in a new Virginia manufacturing plant worth approximagely $7 million. The investment will see Hardide Coatings expand ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that 22 communities will receive technical assistance to pursue development strategies that support smart growth and sustainability goals and encourage local economic ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding $1 million in grants to strengthen the capacity of states and tribes to protect and restore wetlands. The National Wetland Program Development Grants provide interstate agencies, ...
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Chinese division of German companyl ThyssenKrupp has announced additional investment of €75m to construct an automotive electronic power steering facility in the Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, China. The company is also ...
Tags: economic growth, electronic power steering facility, Auto
The Dow Chemical Company and the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) are partnering to invigorate chemistry education and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the nation’s schools. Dow ...
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Allison Transmission Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ALSN) today announced that it will celebrate its centennial throughout 2015 with a variety of special events and activities. "Both our company and its founder have incredibly rich, storied ...
A group of bipartisan business and government leaders released a report Friday that looks at the economic effects climate change is likely to bring to the Midwest, including the region’s farmers, and concludes that in some of the ...
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Textile engineering expo, GTTES-2015 which was held in Mumbai from January 20-22 on an area of 11,500 sq metres, saw over 282 Indian and foreign exhibitors, with a majority of foreign ones coming from China. Ambassadors and consul ...
“For the just completed 2014, business in the polyester specialties segment continues on the whole to proceed in a very solid and pleasing fashion, German fibre manufacturer, Trevira said. It also anticipates the 2014 turnover at ...
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Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC), India’s largest apparel industry training institute bagged the ‘Best Institute: Innovation’ from ASSOCHAM at ‘Summit-cum-Awards on Skilling India’. ATDC received ...
Tags: innovative skill, apparel industry, Textile
Under the agreement that signed in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, China gives Switzerland an 8-billion-US-dollar investment quota under its Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program, and the two sides plan to open a Chinese bank in ...
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Big complex banks must now hold far more capital than in the past because they are seen as posing higher economic risks and they have to be easier to dismantle if they hit trouble. That has hurt their profitability and held back share ...
Tags: Big complex banks, soft trading