Australian thermal coal cargoes arriving at China's ports on January 1, 2017, and thereafter will be clear of the Asian country's 2% import tax, currently equivalent to $1.50/mt, and levied on the delivered CFR South China price of ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Coal
Carlsberg Group's subsidiary, Baltika Breweries has started shipping beer to Oman, becoming the first Russian exporter in the country. The first batch amounted to 10,000 liters of beer. It was decided to start developing the new market ...
Tags: Baltika Breweries, Beer
China’s exports to 70 countries under its “One Belt, One Road” strategy was up 1.5% to US$ 372 billion from January to June 2015, according to China’s custom data. The country’s imports declined 18.8% to US$ ...
Tags: Vietnamese lighting products market, ASEAN lighting market
China’s exports to 70 countries under its “One Belt, One Road” strategy was up 1.5% to US$ 372 billion from January to June 2015, according to China’s custom data. The country’s imports declined 18.8% to US$ ...
Australian thermal coal shippers such as BHP Billiton, Glencore, Peabody Energy and Rio Tinto may potentially have to wait until June 2017 for China to eliminate its 6% tariff on imports of Australian thermal coal, the Australian government ...
Tags: Import Tariff, Thermal Coal
Vietnam, which has so far allowed duty free import of polyester staple fibre (PSF) could charge a 2 per cent import tax following a proposal by the ministry of industry and trade to encourage domestic production, a Vietnamese newspaper has ...
Tags: Import Tax, polyester staple fibre
China will re-introduce an import tax on diesel -- at 1% -- from January 1, 2014, following approval from the State Council, the country's Ministry of Finance said Monday. No reason was given for the change. Diesel had been exempt from ...
Tags: Diesel Tax, Mineral
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 ...
A Boeing executive told journalist that the new regulation by China to lift tax rate on imported airplanes will not affect the company's sale in China as the minimum weight of a Boeing airplane is above 55 tons and the company has not had ...
Tags: Import Tax Rate, airplanes, Transportation
Zhang Changfu, vice chairman of the China Iron and Steel Asociation (CISA), has recommended the cancellation of the exemption from three percent import tax for wear-resistant steel as well as the cancellation of the exemption from 17 ...
India is evaluating plans to raise the import tax on refined edible oil, in order to discourage the rising shipments from Indonesia and Malaysia, which are affecting the local refiners. Currently, India imposes a 7.5% tax on edible oil ...
Tags: India, Import Tax, Oil
After Tuesday's announcement that Brazilian steelmaker CSN was increasing flat steel prices by between 6 and 8 percent, Brazilian industry sources reported that the market is at a standstill considering prices will also be affected by an ...
Tags: steelmaker, CSN, flat steel prices
Asia's polymer market has shrugged off China's new preferential import duties for polyethylene from some countries, as the minimum price for the tax reduction to kick in is seen as too high and trade flows from these nations are almost ...
Tags: Asia, polymer market, polyethylene
The arbitrage window to move polypropylene cargoes from China to Southeast Asia has opened on paper, but no cargoes have been booked so far for the voyage, traders said Wednesday. Demand for PP is weak in China ahead of the long Lunar New ...
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The Taiwan-based solar supply chain is likely to enter a period of consolidation. For upstream material providers, consolidation between downstream customers may create pressure on their costs. Digitimes recently sat down with Chi-jen Chen, ...
Tags: solar industry, solar supply chain, solar, solar materials