China is considering plans to either scrap or reduce export tax rebates on some aluminium extrusion products as well as on stainless steel wires and rods, the China Securities Journal reported on Apri...

China's imports of iron ore in the first quarter of 2011 reached 177.17 million metric tons (tonnes), rising 14.4 pe rcent year on year. The average imported price stood at 156.5 US dollars per tonne, ...

According to China Customs statistics, in the first 2 months 2011, China imported 46.09 billion sets of diodes and similar semiconductor devices (below referred to as semiconductor devices), with a va...

According to China Customs statistics, in first two months 2011, China exported 25.65 million laptop computers with a value of USD 11.99 billion, respectively up 15.3% and down 1.9% year-on-year; the ...

According to China Customs statistics, China exported 4.002 million tons of petroleum products with a value of USD 2.65 billion from January to February 2011, respectively down 6.9% and 1.1% year-on-y...

According to statistics released by the General Administration of Customs on 10 April, 2011, China's quarterly trade balance turned red from January to March in 2011, the country's first quarterly tra...

Data from the Chinese customs authorities reveal that in March 2011 Chinese finished steel exports reached their highest level since July 2010, while finished steel and iron ore imports also increased...

China posted its first trade deficit in seven years in the first quarter of 2011. The figure was a very modest $1 billion, which many economists saw as a sign of the growing economic strength of the c...

Chinese soybean importers are likely to cancel some shipments of the commodity as processor margins shrink and soymeal prices fall, an official with state grain trader Cofco Ltd. said. China is the glo...

The significance of the announcement that China ran a trade deficit in the first three months of 2011 is not a single quarter's figures. China's trade balance is usually stronger in the second half of...

Three-nutrient compound fertilizer imports: In February 2011, China's imports of compound fertilizer reached 78,900 tons in quantity, valued at USD 33,866,467, and the average import price of USD 428.9...

The 6th meeting of the Armenian-Chinese intergovernmental commission has completed in Yerevan. Armenian co-chairman of the commission, RA Deputy Minister of Economy Ara Petrosyan told journalists that ...

China's faster-than-expected growth in exports and imports in March 2011 may allow Premier Wen Jiabao to strengthen his fight against inflation, which probably exceeded his target for the ninth straig...

China's imports of copper and aluminum products all registered decline in volume in the first quarter of 2011. According to China's General Administration of Customs statistics r eleased on Sunday, the...

All the soybeans in Iowa won't be enough to meet the anticipated surge in China's imports over the next four years as the nation feeds a record pig herd and drives bean prices to an all-time high. Chin...

Copper imports by China, the largest consumer, climbed 29 percent in March from a two-year low as fabricators stepped up production. Shipments fell 33 percent from the same month 2010. Inbound movement...

China's first quarterly foreign trade deficit in seven years, is temporary and will prove to be short-lived, as the world's second largest economy has the vigor to increase exports, experts said. The ...

Exports jumped 14.5 percent in 2010 - the biggest rise recorded since 1950 - as economies rebounded from the global downturn, the World Trade Organization said on April 7, 2011. Cross-border trade is e...

Chinese copper imports, already weakening since late 2010, may come under fresh pressure as new foreign exchange measures make it more difficult to use copper purchases as a financing vehicle. Copper ...

Copper may fall on speculation figures for imports of the metal in March, 2011 into China, the world's biggest consumer, might signal tepid demand, a survey showed. Eight of 16 analysts, investors and...