South Africa will stop imposing tariffs on poultry imports from the US, paving the way to resume trade in the country which had been closed for the past 15 years. The two countries have reached an agreement to this effect, as per which, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Policy, Opinion
Chinese imports and exports shrank again in May, the latest sign of sputtering growth in the world's second biggest economy that adds to pressure on Beijing to avoid a sharp slump. Customs data released Monday showed that exports ...
Tags: China Economy, China Trade
In the 2015/16 season, world cotton imports may recover modestly, increasing 2 per cent to 7.7 million tons with imports outside of China rising by 3 per cent to 6.1 million tons. In 2011/12, Chinese imports more than doubled from the ...
China's manufacturing business activity slightly expanded in May, indicated by a Purchasing Managers Index reading of 50.2, up from 50.1 in April, according to official data. The reading has remained above 50, the separation between ...
Tags: Manufacturing, PMI
Armenia has imposed a ban on poultry product imports from 17 US states over bird flu outbreak, according to the former's Agriculture Ministry. The ban comes in the wake of avian influenza outbreak across several commercial poultry farms ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry product
While government estimates released Wednesday show the overall U.S. economy contracted, they indicate the sporting goods industry continued to grow. Real gross domestic product - the value of the production of goods and services in the ...
Plastic packaging and coatings company Coveris Holdings has acquired Elldex Packaging Solutions, a division of Hellaby Holdings, with packaging businesses in New Zealand and Australia. Elldex manufactures and imports HDPE and LDPE ...
Tags: Hellaby's Packaging, Packaging
Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzo has imposed a temporary ban on meat product imports from ten processing plants in Brazil. The agency said that the processing plants in Brazil have failed to comply with phytosanitary measures, ...
China's appetite for imported naphtha has grown since the start of the year on the back of strong demand from petrochemical producers, market sources and traders said this week Imports of the petrochemical feedstock over January-April ...
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Spanish design company Forward Thinking Architecture has developed an automated offshore floating farming alternative to increase food production. The multi-layered Smart Floating Farms (SFF) project combines solar energy, ...
Russia has approved six Iranian companies to supply dairy and poultry products, a move that could allow Russia to free up from high food price inflation. The move comes after the Russian government recently said that the country will ...
Tags: Dairy Products, Poultry Products
China is to reduce import taxes by more than 50 per cent on some consumer goods, including apparel, in a bid to encourage an increase in domestic spending, according to media reports. The Chinese finance ministry has said that it will ...
Tags: Import Duty, Consumer Goods
Nigeria’s textiles traders are a worried lot over the increasing Chinese footprint in the country. While the proliferation of Chinese-made textiles is a boon for low income consumers, traders in Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest ...
Tags: textile market, textiles
Coal production in China, the world's largest producer and consumer of the mineral, declined 6.1 percent in the first four months this year as the impact of the government's clean air and renewable energy policies began to weigh on the ...
Tags: Coal Production, mineral
Bangladesh may emerge as an unlikely saviour for the Indian cotton sector that has been left reeling in the face of low Chinese imports. Indian cotton export is expected to fall to a six-year low as China continues to cut imports. According ...
Tags: Cotton Imports, Cotton