According to Russia-based SpetsStal Association, in 2013 the volume of stainless steel consumption in Russia rose by 6.2 percent year on year to 383,900 mt. In the year in question, domestic stainless steel output rose by 18.4 percent to ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Consumption, Stainless Steel, metallury
In the January-February period of the current year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 9.5 percent year on year to 2.03 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In February ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
China is the major exporter of the world , but also face with a lot of restrictions on exports.As a typical form of labor-intensive industries, stationery exports industry of China is facing with the atrophy of external market, ...
Tags: Stationery, Office Supplies, lead
Vietnam's oil product imports in February rose for a third consecutive month, on a year-on-year basis, following declines for most of last year, customs data released late Thursday showed. The country imported 602,827 mt of oil products ...
Tags: Oil Product, crude, gasoline
China's refinery crude throughput over January and February dipped 1% year on year to 78.78 million mt, or an average of 9.79 million b/d, according to preliminary data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday. ...
Prompt prices on the UK's NBP gas trading hub fell Friday morning as the system saw a large supply surplus and warm, sunny weather expected for the weekend should further cut heating demand. "The system was the longest I've seen it," one ...
Tags: gas storage, Oversupply
Prices of spot delivered thermal coal cargoes into Turkey slipped Friday, following a lower-priced deal for US material and buyers willing to wait for cheaper prices, sources said. Platts assessed the weekly CIF Turkey 6,000 kcal/kg ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, US Deals
European market prices of the key grade of aluminum alloy, 226, slipped back by a further Eur10/mt ($14/mt) this week as buyers could take their pick of offers in a well-supplied market. "It's very calm. Last week there was a lot of ...
Tags: aluminum alloy, European market
In February this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 12.7 percent year on year and decreased by 18.6 percent compared to January to $1.29 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Metallurgy
In the January-February period this year, the volume of metallurgical coke exports from China's Shanxi province indicated a 12.4-fold year-on-year increase to 262,000 mt, according to the customs authorities in Taiyuan, capital city of ...
Tags: Coke, Energy, Mineral, Metallurgy
Starting Monday the value of the renminbi will be allowed to fluctuate 2% above or below a daily reference rate set by the People’s Bank of China. Widening the band, which had a 1% range in both directions since April 2012, was a ...
Tags: Yuan Trading Band, central bank
In January 2014, Japan imported 86.6161 billion yen of textile yarn and fabric, registering a sharp increase of 35.8 percent year-on-year, according to the trade statistics released by the Ministry of Finance. Region-wise, ...
Tags: Textile Yarn, fabric imports
Textile and raw materials exports from Turkey, excluding apparel, during the month of February 2014, amounted to US$ 716.9 million, indicating a rise of 10.4 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the ...
Tags: Textile, raw materials, export
Canada and the Republic of Korea have concluded negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) that will significantly boost trade and investment ties between the two countries. The negotiations were concluded during the visit of ...
Japanese companies are willing to invest in Iran’s petrochemical sector, Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Koji Haneda has said, FARS News Agency reported. During a tour of Ilam petrochemical complex in Western Iran, Mr. Haneda said ...
Tags: petrochemical, Chemicals, petroleum