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Big Chinese steelmakers are likely to raise their product prices in September after a rebound in the steel market over the last several weeks, the China Securities Journal said on Monday. The newspaper cited traders and analysts as saying that a pickup in market steel prices that ...
BEIJING - China has "never discriminated" against foreign companies by using different standards in handling cases of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving the anti-trust law since its implementation in 2008, said a senior official of the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. ...
China's output of crude steel in July reached 51.74 million tons, up 2.2 percent from a year ago but down 3.7 percent from June, figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Wednesday. The figure amounts to 1.67 million tons a day, down from 1.79 million tons in the ...
SHANGHAI - Iron ore imports by China, the largest buyer of the steelmaking ingredient, rose for the first time in four months in July, indicating steelmakers are restocking after depleting inventories. Imports gained 8.5 percent to 51.2 million metric tons in July, from 47.2 ...
NANNING - Port companies from China and Southeast Asian countries inked agreements to strengthen cooperation at the fifth Pan-Beibu Gulf (PBG) Economic Cooperation Forum which closed here on Friday, as part of the efforts to construct the PBG logistics network. These agreements, ...
Beijing - China's machinery industry has rebounded during the first half of this year, but the momentum is likely to slow as the country's economy cools. The machinery industry has grown by 37 percent during the first six months of 2010, with a total output value of 6.59 trillion ...
China's imports of iron ore in July rose 9 percent from June to 51.2 million tons, customs figures showed on Tuesday. The increase followed three consecutive monthly declines to 47.2 million tons in June, with Chinese customers holding back on purchases amid fading domestic ...
Chinese steel exporters may see hurdles later this year, as the country is set to limit exports in high polluting, high energy-consuming, and resource sectors, according to media reports Monday. China is to lower or scrap export tax rebates on exports in such sectors, and lift ...
BEIJING: International suppliers are raising iron ore prices. But as experts have pointed out, this does not necessarily mean a rise in steel prices. In the first four months of this year, the price of imported iron ore in the Chinese market rose by 26 percent, which pushed up ...
BEIJING - China's exports for June hit a record high since July 2008 and the trade surplus also surged to the highest this year, but economists insisted such strong momentum cannot be sustained and there is little possibility that the yuan will gain by large margins, as widely ...
CARACAS - China and Venezuela on Saturday signed a series of agreements to help the latter develop its oil and hydropower industries. Under the agreements, the two countries will set up an oil exploiting and processing joint venture in Venezuela's Orinoco reserves belt. China ...
BEIJING - A senior Chinese industry official has warned major iron ore producers that huge price hikes are likely to damage China's steel market and relations between iron ore and steel producers.China's steel mills were under "great pressure" from soaring iron ore prices, which ...
BEIJING - The United States Commerce Department said on Thursday it will investigate whether Chinese aluminum extrusion manufacturers have received government subsidies and dumped products at rates below the average market price in the US. But the department didn't say whether it ...
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said Monday it will curb speculation in farm produce, prices manipulation, and supplies monopolies, and investigate criminals when severe market disruption is spotted. The NDRC said specific definitions and punishment are ...
HONG KONG - Donald Tsang, chief executive of Hong Kong, and Huang Huahua, governor of Guangdong province, signed the first framework agreement on Hong Kong-Guangdong cooperation in Beijing on Wednesday in the presence of Vice-President Xi Jinping. At the ceremony, Tsang said the ...
BEIJING: China has imposed countervailing duties on grain-oriented electrical steel produced in the United States, as well as anti-dumping duties against Russian and US steel, its customs administration said. US producers will be assessed for anti-dumping duties of up to 64.8 ...
SHANGHAI: China's steel consumption is expected to remain high but grow slowly in the short term, the chairman of China's Baosteel said on Thursday. Over the long term, Xu Lejiang added, China's demand for steel-making raw materials, including iron ore and coking coal, will shift ...
BEIJING - China would stick to its policies of attracting foreign capital and the country's investment environment would not be damaged by the Google and Rio Tinto cases, a senior official said here Friday. Chen Jian, vice minister of Ministry of Commerce, made the remarks in ...
China's talks with the world's biggest iron-ore miners are "pointless" as its steelmakers have to accept the higher terms Vale SA negotiated with Japan this week, Jiangsu Shagang Group Co Chairman Shen Wenrong said. "We have no options," Shen, who heads China's largest privately ...
SHANGHAI - Three of the four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto who were jailed by a Shanghai court last month for taking bribes and stealing commercial secrets have decided to appeal their jail terms, their lawyers said Wednesday. But Stern Hu, the Australian national who ...
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