On September 16, U.S. International Trade Commission announced starting antidumping and anti-subsidy investigations into monosodium glutamates from China and Indonesia to determine whether the alleged dumping and subsidies of the imported ...
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Spain hopes to reinvigorate its flagging automotive industry by extending a ‘scrappage’ scheme to subsidise the purchase of new cars. Under the scheme, people who scrap a car or commercial vehicle that is at least 10 years old ...
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Ashley Furniture Inds. and Ethan Allen haven't given up on their fight to obtain a portion of antidumping duties they believe are legally theirs. On Oct. 3, the two case goods and upholstery manufacturers filed an appeal with the U.S. ...
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Why did the significant growth observed in Turkish steel output following the 2008 economic crisis start to be replaced by reduced outputs this year? Will this declining trend in output slow down in the remainder of the year? After 2008, ...
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China has introduced measures to curb photovoltaic overcapacity while seeking to expand domestic deman. China has put forth new rules to tackle overcapacity in its solar power industry. A document released by the Ministry of Industry and ...
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Taiwan LED packaging manufacturer Unity Opto Technology consolidated revenue in September was seven percent lower than August to NT$512 million. The company’s 3Q revenue was NT$1.679 million, a 16.45 percent dip from 2Q revenue of ...
LED industries are entering traditional off season in 4Q. HSBC states in their most recent LED report that LED industry 3Q13 revenue was weak due to TV backlight demands being lower than expected. With the upcoming release of the Chinese ...
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Biodiesel has faced a backlash in recent years, as critics charge the industry with razing land and pushing up food costs. But as its competitors struggle, one Hong Kong-based company is moving ahead with a US$165 million plant that turns ...
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The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) recently announced that subsidies were applied to US polysilicon under investigation which led to substantive damages toward China's domestic industry. Thus, a ...
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The supply and demand situation for the LED industry has affected LED prices. The amount of demand in the lighting market leads industry insiders to predict that by 2015 supply and demand will be roughly equal. Foreign investment firm ...
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Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps has increased efforts to promote cotton picker machine in recent years in order to promote the sustainable development of the cotton industry. Taking benefit of the national subsidy policy, ...
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The textile industry in western Indian state of Rajasthan is expecting about Rs. 100 billion new investments over the next seven years, due to the state government’s recent announcement of ‘Special Customized Package for ...
China's Ministry of Finance announced on Sunday that it will offer tax breaks to manufacturers of solar power products, in the country's latest effort to encourage the use of the green energy. From Oct. 1, 2013 to Dec. 31, 2015, vendors ...
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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have criticised the rural broadband rollout intended to provide fast internet access to 90 per cent of UK homes by 2015 for favouring BT and adding as much as £20 to council tax bills. In a ...
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Currently the smallest part of the global solar energy storage business, the commercial segment, is projected to expand by a factor of 700 in the coming years and become the largest market segment in 2017, according to IMS Research. ...
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