The 2012/13 U.S. cotton estimates include lower production and higher off-take, resulting in lower ending stocks relative to last month. Production is lowered 1 percent as a 500,000-bale reduction for Texas—due to larger estimated ...
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A Penn Township industrial glass manufacturer has continued to grow over the past decade, even as many of the region's once-plentiful glass companies closed up shop in the face of foreign competition. Chromaglass Inc. last month started ...
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China is responsible for more than 95%of the global supply of rare earths and over the weekend the country'sMinistry of Land and Resources(MLR),announced that the first production quota for rare earths this year will be set at 46,900 ...
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The World Trade Organization will investigate China's quotas and tariffs on rare earth minerals following prompting from the US, EU and Japan, who allege the export restrictions are in contravention of international trade regulations. ...
Chinese regulators have announced the export quota for the country’s rare earth metal production today. For the first half of 2013, the Ministry of Commerce said that it will allow just over 15,500 tonnes to leave the country. ...
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The Indonesia Antidumping Committee has found that the cold rolled coil and cold rolled sheet imports from Japan have been dumped, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation. KADI recommended Indonesia's minister of commerce to take ...
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Parts of New York City received mandatory evacuation notices from the mayor's office as Hurricane Sandy moved toward shore Monday. Along with other businesses in the city's financial district, the New York Stock Exchange voluntarily shut ...
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1. How to protect trade secrets and processes? The best thing your company can do is to only disseminate trade secrets to those who have a need to know the information. When outsourcing manufacturers you may consider separating your ...
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Some wireless and wired communications services downed by Hurricane Sandy have been restored over the past 24 hours, but FCC officials said Wednesday afternoon that several serious outages remain in New York, New Jersey and some other hard ...
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China is delivering on its promise to consolidate its mining industry with the formation of a new rare earth mega miner. According to a report by Global Times, the “mega-corporation”, named China North Rare Earths (Group) ...
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China's top 10 REE producers are planning to set up a trading platform for rare earth oxides as early as next month. China mines roughly 95% of the world's rare earths and is also the globe's top consumer of the 17 elements used in ...
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Japan, the world’s main importer of rare earths, has requested international assistance for alternatives, conservation, diversification and recycling and to continue dialogue with China to secure stable global supply, reports ...
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Tokyo’s new governor, Naoki Inose, announced the city would subsidize companies with a project to mine rare earth elements from the seabed off Minami-Torishima Island, to the southeast of Tokyo. The Asahi Shimbum reports that ...
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China is looking to allocate a value-added tax (VAT) permit to all rare earth companies in a desperate effort to curb resource plundering, dangerous artisanal mining and widespread pollution, as well as collecting revenue. By forcing rare ...
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The mining sector's bellwether companies were all beaten down on Monday after China's premier Wen Jiabao delivered a downbeat outlook for the world's second largest economy adding that there were "new problems" to deal with. China will ...
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