Jiangsu Shagang Group, China's biggest scrap buyer, cut buying prices Saturday for the raw material by Yuan 30/mt ($5/mt), in response to a slide in rebar prices, a company source said. After the adjustment, Shagang will pay Yuan ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Rebar
Chile's CAP Mineria's net profits in the first nine months of the year fell 83% to $17.3 million as lower iron ore prices cut income despite higher shipments and record production, according to results late Friday. The company, the mining ...
The 2nd round of upgraded negotiations and the 7th China-ASEAN FTA Joint Committee Meeting was held in Beijing on February 3-6, 2015. The Chinese delegation, consisting of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ...
Tags: China-ASEAN FTA, trade in services, investment, economic cooperation
US-China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Cooperation Forum & Match-making Meeting, jointly hosted by China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products, the Department of Commerce of ...
Tags: US-China Energy Cooperation, Machinery, Electronic Products
China's slowing power consumption and falling railway freight are signs of progress in economic restructuring, rather than evidence of failing industry, the statistics chief said on Thursday. Power use and rail freight are two major ...
Tags: power consumption, railway freight
HS Code Products 2014 Export Sales (Thousand USD) YoY Rate Ratio Total 2,342,807,785 6.1% 24.4% 85 ...
China's iron ore demand is falling, but its share of imports from mining giants Australia and Brazil is rising, which is squeezing smaller miners and curbing their supply. China imported 453.1 million mt of iron ore in January-June, with ...
China is pushing for exports of industrial capacity, a new economic dynamic. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will witness the signing of several deals on industrial capacity cooperation in Brazil, the first leg of his Latin America tour, said ...
First-quarter steel exports surged 40.7 percent to 25.78 million metric tons as mills responded to weak domestic demand and falling prices, the China Iron and Steel Association said on Wednesday. "Although domestic steel companies face ...
Tags: Steel Mills, steel exports
State-owned Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd said on Monday that it has acquired the remaining 75 percent stake it does not own in a mining project in western Africa's Sierra Leone. Shandong Steel had earlier acquired a 25 percent ...
Tags: Steel Firm, Iron Group, Steel Group
IRL has announced the launch of a new edition of its single country report A Profile of the Chinese Paint Industry. In this study, IRL examines China’s paints and coatings market independently and not as part of a regional study on ...
Tags: paints, coatings, powder coating
China will accelerate the overhaul of its overly-invested iron and steel sector to bring it back to a "basically balanced level" by 2017, the industry ministry said. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said it would ...
Tags: Steel Industry, Iron Steel
Chinese steelmakers are facing more headwinds this year as economic growth slows and need government support to tackle long-term overcapacity, the chairman of Anshan Iron & Steel Group said. China's steel sector has been struggling with ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
New rules to facilitate entry of bulk carriers at the nation's ports China is likely to import more iron ore from Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the Brazilian mining giant, to bolster its raw material reserves, after the Ministry of ...
China's Ministry of Finance issued its customs duties implementation plan for 2015 on December 17, with the duties in question to become effective as of January 1, 2015. Accordingly, China's export tariffs for pig iron, semi-finished ...
Tags: pig iron, semi-finished steel, wire rod, Metallurgy