Chinese oil and gas producers show rising interest in oil exploration and development in the arctic regions nowadays. An insider with China Petroleum Corp. (Sinopec Group), one of the top two oil and gas producers in the Chinese mainland, ...
India is considering to lower customs duties on wines and spirits bought from the European Union to 40% from the current 150% under a bilateral free trade agreement being negotiated between the two. The offer by Commerce and Industry ...
Tags: Customs Duties, Wines
Northwest European acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene and polystyrene producers are raising their competitiveness in order to retain market share in the fast growing Turkish market, market sources said this week. European producers are ...
Tags: acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene, polystyrene producers
Malaysia's re-elected Prime Minister Najib Razak announced yesterday that foreign investors and fund managers would be given five-year multiple entry visas, and that overseas corporations trading in oil and related products in the country ...
Tags: Najib Razak, Foreign Investors
Last week, Latin American neighbours Panama and Colombia concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), after seven rounds of negotiations, which began in 2010. The negotiations concluded after the Colombian Government made ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, FTA
Freeport-McMoRan Energy has missed its deadline and can no longer build an onshore Alabama pipeline to a longer offshore pipeline that would have brought liquefied natural gas from an import terminal in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Federal ...
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz indicated Thursday that decisions on at least some of the pending applications to export US liquefied natural gas would be made before the end of the year. During his first appearance before the House ...
Tags: LNG-Export, Chemicals
China will see tariff on watches imported from Switzerland drop 60 percent accumulatively over the coming decade. Chinese premier Li Keqiang paid a visit to Switzerland during May 23 and May 25 and on May 24, China signed a MoU on ...
According to report, Turkey’s first stainless steel cold rolling mill Posco Assan TST said it plan to commission production at the end of this month and it will see most of stainless steel CR imports to decline soon, said the company ...
Peruvian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including the clothing sector, would benefit due to the implementation of the free trade agreement (FTA) between Peru and Costa Rica, which came into effect from June 1, 2013, according to ...
Tags: Apparel
Heartened by a brief mention of liquefied natural gas exports by President Barack Obama, the new head of the US trade group for shale gas producers said Thursday he thought Obama should hasten a permitting process that has issued only two ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Chemicals
The apparel manufacturers in the US have expressed concern over increasing labor cost in the country as several global apparel brands are sourcing garments from other countries with low production cost North Carolina-based apparel ...
Tags: Apparel Makers, Apparel
China and Switzerland are discussing a reciprocal trade deal that would see import duty exempted for the majority of imports from either side, a senior Chinese commercial official revealed on May 28, 2013. The two sides have signed a ...
Tags: Import Duties, trade deal
Freight flows on all modes of transportation between the US and its NAFTA partners decreased 2.3 percent in February 2013 from January 2013, measured in current dollars, according to a report from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics ...
Tags: Mineral, Freight flows
The textile and apparel manufacturers of Korea are expecting a boost in exports to Turkey, as the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries is scheduled to take effect from May 1, 2013. Korea and Turkey had started ...
Tags: Korean Textile, Textile