We don’t regard Chrysler, Ford and General Motors as the Big 3 anymore, and for good reason. Detroit’s near-total dominance of the American car market and the U.S. policies that shape it is a fading memory. They operate in a ...
Tags: Power of Detroit, Trade Alliances
The Japanese and Singaporean governments are moving to revise the economic partnership agreement they formed in 2002, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, expected to affirm the plan on Saturday. Japan will ...
In a report this week, the Latin American Steel Association (Alacero) outlined struggles to reduce the charges of unfair trade between countries that are trading partners. Rafael Rubio, director of Alacero, expressed concern over an ...
Tags: steel demand, steel production
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
The world trade organization (WTO) will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary birthday, but someone worried about its life was at stake, because it does not address imbalances between developing countries and developed countries. Since from ...
The likely impact of LNG exports from North America on wholesale gas prices around the world may put a cap on US exports at roughly 6 Bcf/d, Mike Fulwood, a principal in Nexant's Global Gas practice, said Tuesday. During a briefing on LNG ...
Tags: LNG Exports, gas prices
We had the opportunity to speak with Kim Marti Subirana from Celsa Group, the president of IREPAS, during the SteelOrbis Spring 2014 Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting held on March 30-April 1 in Barcelona. Mr. Marti, how do you view the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
The Export Finance and Insurance Commission (EFIC) has examined free trade deals clinched with Japan and Korea this month and the trade agreement currently being pursued with China. “These agreements offer unprecedented access to ...
Tags: Electrolytic Capacitors, Asian FTA
The Vegetable Oil Industry of Canada (VOIC) congratulates the government of Saskatchewan and the other western provinces for their success in obtaining an internal trade panel ruling that calls on Quebec to immediately cease enforcement and ...
Tags: Vegetable Oil, Food Products
According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Cuba claimed that the law would be "anti-capitalist" and would threaten free trade. The Communist country added that plain packaging would lead to an increase in counterfeit cigarettes, leading ...
Tags: economy, cigarettes, Agriculture
The Australian Brewery has broken into the Japanese market Craft brewer The Australian Brewery has expanded its global reach with successful negotiations to supply to Japan. The Australian Brewery said it had been "notoriously ...
The Mexican National Chamber of the Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO) denied this week that there is injury to the US steel industry, since all steel trade with the US is part of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and total ...
Tags: Rebar Market, Iron, Steel Industry
C.C. Wang, president of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), warns that the island will lag South Korea in machine tool exports globally in three to five years if the Legislature fails to approve the service trade pact ...
On the anniversary of the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka (Bangladesh), the Foreign Trade Association (FTA) highlights the efforts undertaken by European retailers and importers to contribute to the improvement of safety conditions ...
Regarding announcement by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) of preliminary dumping margins of 0.00 percent and 2.64 percent, respectively, for Turkish rebar producers Habas Sinai ve Tibbi Gazlar Istihsal Endustrisi A.S. and Icdas Celik ...
Tags: Rebar Mills, Preliminary Margins