According to data from Chinese Customs, the country's February polymer imports posted significant losses from January for almost all products, as per Chemorbis. China's polymer imports generally see a...

Reuters reported that rising LME linked alumina prices are prompting Chinese smelters to accelerate a shift to cheaper domestic supplies and delay, divert or resell term arrivals which are expected to...

Indonesian products are losing ground in the domestic market to Chinese products, following the implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA), government research shows. Agus Tjahayan...

China has announced an immediate ban on the import of some Japanese food and agricultural products. That's due to fears they could be contaminated by radiation from the earthquake-damaged nuclear powe...

Zinc exports from China, the biggest producer and consumer, to Japan may gain after the earthquake on March 11, 2011 disrupted smelter production, said an executive at Shanghai Eagle-Metals Co. "Our or...

Imported iron ore prices in China market see rebounding after a continuous fall for one month. However, transactions remain plain at present. Most of Chinese domestic steel mills stay out of iron ore ...

Chile, the world's largest copper producer, has to sell its copper concentrate to China despite plans to sell it to Japan, China Business News reported on Mar 24, 2011. Three Japanese copper producers...

China ramped up its grain imports last year and its large reserves mean the country will not suffer from a severe shortage in 2011, according to a senior agricultural official. China's net grain import...

China's exports of rare earth metals burst through the $100,000-per-tonne mark for the first time in February 2011, up almost ninefold from a year before, while the volume of trade stayed far below hi...

China is set to import the largest amount of corn in more than 15 years, according to US government analysts in Beijing, injecting new demand into a tight global market. The analysts project that China...

A Chinese company said on Mar 24, 2011 that China was importing 60-70 percent of its natural stone need from Turkey. Rose Wang, the director general of Chinese stone company "Kangli", said that Kangli ...

Chinese producers and traders of agricultural products complain that exports to Japan have suffered a sharp decline since a massive quake and tsunami disrupted the country's transportation systems and...

The growth in China's export and import value slowed down considerably in the first two months of 2011, with a notable rise in imported and exported product prices, said Yao Jian, spokesperson for the...

According to China Customs statistics, in the first 2 months of 2011, Shenzhen port totally exported 160 million storage batteries, up 8% year-on-year; their total value reached USD 350 million, up 38...

China's imports of styrene monomer fell 12% year on year in February to 235,124 mt, customs data released on March 17 showed, as Asian producers were building their inventories ahead of a series of tu...

The earthquake in Japan's northeastern regions will indeed affect the economic and trade cooperation between Japan and China because the China-Japan economic cooperation relationship is very close and...

The export value of rare earth ore, metals and mixtures products in China, the world's biggest rare earth supplier, reached US$314.3 million in the first two months of in 2011, up 568% year on year, a...

China posted a 14.41 percent year-on-year fall in the imports of natural rubber to 107,200 tons in February 2011, reports yicai.com, citing the General Administration of Customs. For the first two mont...

China's imports of dental equipment grew at an average annual rate of 27.89 percent during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010), according to figures released by the China Chamber of Comm...

China's pork imports were, thanks to the decline of the backyard hog sector, placed for a steep rise even before the contamination scandal which has seen 30 officials punished or interviewed. The world...