China plans to levy a resources tax on coal based on sales value instead of production volume, as well as scrapping arbitrary levies on coal miners starting from December 1, taxation and fiscal authorities said over the weekend. ...
Tags: Resources Tax, Coal
The US-China anti-dumping and countervailing final determination is expected to be announced on December 17th and the whole investigation procedures will be completed by January 30th, 2015. This is a trade war initiated by SolarWorld as ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping, PV
Although dwindling domestic demand and excess capacity have shrunk profit margins for most Chinese steelmakers, it has inspired some to tap overseas markets for sustained, long-term growth. Hebei Iron &Steel Co, China's second-largest ...
Tags: Chinese Steelmakers, Iron, Steel
Avery Dennison, a producer and marketer of apparel labels said its profits in the third quarter ending September 30, 2014 climbed 38 percent year-on-year. Avery Dennison's third-quarter of 2014 profit rose to $64.3 million or $0.68 per ...
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This September Scotland will vote on whether to leave the UK or not. But how might the outcome affect the country's retailers? By the end of this summer, a question will be asked of Scotland with the potential to change the UK as it is ...
Tags: Toy Industry, Independence
Saputo (Saputo or the Company) reported today its financial results for fiscal 2014, which ended on March 31, 2014. All amounts in this news release are in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated, and are presented according to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Bernard Amos, CEO of environmental consultancy and contract management firm Helistrat, discusses the recent rise in Landfill Tax and the impact and opportunity for UK businesses Most of us probably think that when it comes to recycling we ...
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PPG Industries reported record first quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.6 billion, up $528 million, or 17 percent, versus the prior year. First quarter 2014 reported net income from continuing operations was $277 ...
Tags: PPG, Construction, Decoration
London businesses and politicians have called on the government to scrap a planned hike in alcohol taxes to give the capital’s hospitality sector a boost. Pubs, producers, MPs and retailers joined the TaxPayers' Alliance and the ...
Tags: alcohol taxes, more jobs, hospitality sector
Woolworths has announced a profit increase for the first half Supermarket group Woolworths has announced a net profit after tax for the first half of the 2014 financial year of $1,321.7 million, up 14.5 per cent on the same period in the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Navajo Nation is going to use sales tax policies to try changing food habits on the largest Indian reservation in the United States. The Navajo Nation Council on Jan. 30 approved an additional 2-percent sales tax on so-called ...
Tags: Healthy Food, food safety
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it has launched antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations into imported calcium hypochlorite from China. Calcium hypochlorite is an ingredient in bleaching powder, ...
Tax revenues continue bouncing back from the low levels reported in almost all countries , at the height of the global economic crisis, according to new OECD data in the annual Revenue Statistics publication. The average tax revenue to GDP ...
Starting Jan 1,2014, China will apply provisional annual tax rates lower than the most fvored nation tariff rates for 767 imported goods, according to the Tariff Implementation Plan for 2014 issued by the Tariff Policy Committee of the Stae ...
It is reported that Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has proposed to levy antidumping (AD) tax on cold rolled stainless steel imported from China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan. According to the news, the proposed tax rates ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Cold Roll Coil, Cold Roll Coil, Construction, Metallurgy