Plastic bottle recycling in the US has increased by 6.2% to reach around 2.8 billion pounds in 2012, according to a new report released by the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) and American Chemistry Council (ACC). ...
Tags: Plastic Bottle
Fortress Paper Ltd. announces that that China's Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") has made a preliminary determination to impose an interim duty on the import of Canadian dissolving pulp into China. The interim duty applied against the ...
Tags: Fortress, Anti-Dumping Duty
Stockport-based schoolwear supplier Rowlinson Knitwear has implemented a new foreign exchange strategy to help protect the firm from currency volatility risk. Working with HSBC's Manchester Commercial Centre, Rowlinson has ensured ...
Tags: schoolwear, Knitwear
The U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that the U.S. hardwood decorative plywood industry has not been materially injured by illegally priced hardwood plywood imports from China. The ITC determination, which came in a 5-0 ...
Tags: plywood, Construction
The United States will not impose punitive duties on hardwood and plywood from China, the U.S. trade authority said Tuesday. The U.S. industry is "neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury" by imports of hardwood and ...
Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
Tags: steel, Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral
Domotex Middle East, which next runs from Nov. 7-10 at the Istanbul Expo Center, is an important marketplace for anyone and everyone with a professional interest in carpets or parquet flooring. Turkey is not only one of Europe's top ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The domestic float glass industry, which is battling a slowdown in demand, has sought anti-dumping duty on glass imports from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Directorate-General of Anti-Dumping and Allied ...
Tags: Float Glass, glass industry
The import of Turkish stainless steel coil still kept robust about 41,700 tons in September. According to Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) data, it was only 200 tons less than the imports in August. The lower price coils from East Asian ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Steel Coil
UAE government attempts to reform its steel import regulation so as to stop dumping of steel products from overseas. So far, UAE is looking for expanding its steel market share. However, the consumption of steel rebar around 55% comes from ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Mineral
Morocco's Industry, Trade and New Technologies Ministry has announced the preliminary results of the antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding hot rolled flat steel imports from the European Union and Turkey. The preliminary dumping ...
Tags: HR Flat Steel, Mineral
In September this year, China's auto exports totaled 73,800 vehicles, with a month-on-month decline of 1.60 percent and a year-on-year decrease of 30.52 percent, as announced by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) on ...
Tags: Auto Exports, Passenger Car
Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
Tags: Construction, Glass, Glass Industry
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has called off the ban placed on European beef opening the market for export after nearly 16 years. The USDA had refrained imports of any EU beef, including deboned beef earlier in 1997 ...
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has determined that there is a reasonable indication that the dumping of hot rolled (HR) carbon steel plate from Brazil, Taiwan, Denmark, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and South Korea has caused ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, HR Steel Plate, steel, Construction