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China imported a total of 714 mt of molybdenum ores and concentrates in April, down 25.5% year on year, figures released on May 22, 2012 by the General Administration of Customs showed.
Of the total im...
China's exports to Argentina in April declined 34.4 percent from 2011, the largest monthly drop since the 2009 global recession, signaling the deepening negative influence of Argentina's trade protect...
According to China Customs statistics, from January to February 2012, China's ceramic exports totaled USD 1.72 billion, slightly up 0.5% year-on-year with 18 percentage points slower than the same per...
China, the world's largest cooper consumer, imported 272,903 metric tons of refined copper in April 2012, 70.3% more than in the same month of 2011, according to the latest statistics released by the ...
China may need to boost imports of liquefied natural gas by about 80 percent from current contracted volumes to meet demand for the fuel, according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd.
The world's biggest energy use...
According to China Customs statistics, in the first 2 months of 2012, China totally exported 39.13 million solar batteries with a value of USD 1.97 billion, respectively down 8.7% year-on-year and dow...
China's exports of rare earths in the first four months of 2012 fell by 43 percent year-on-year to 3,046 tons, according to data released on May 21, 2012 by China Customs Statistics Information Servic...
China's Iranian crude-oil imports in April fell 23.7% from a year ago, data from China'sGeneral Administration of Customs showed on May 21, 2012, after China International United Petroleum & Chemical ...
Coal imports by China almost doubled in April from a year earlier, according to the China Coal Transport and Distribution Association.
The nation's purchases of the power-station and steelmaking fuel i...
According to China Customs statistics, from January to February 2012, China totally exported 48,000 tons of natural graphite with a value of USD 49 million, respectively down 12.6% year-on-year and up...
China-Africa trade on agricultural products has gone through years of fast growth and the trade volume reached 4.78 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, a Chinese official said on May 19, 2012.
The figure mar...
China is now losing an increasing number of export orders to other emerging countries because of rising costs at home. That's driving the government to consider supportive measures including tax rebat...
Imported iron ore prices dipped in the week ending Monday due to waning demand, according to the Xinhua-China Iron Ore Price Index released on May 15, 2012.
The price index for 63.5-percent-purity iron...
Global demand slackening, but ministry confident of 10% growth
China's foreign trade outlook will remain gloomy in the coming months, while global demand slackens, operational costs rise and trade prot...
Imports of screws from China have been slapped with a hefty antidumping duty in May 2012 after an investigation by a South African trade authority found they were causing local manufacturers "material...
Taking advantage of an expected China-Japan-South Korea free trade agreement, Tokyo has vowed to boost exports to China, which slowed 2011 after a nuclear accident in Japan.
"We will use any preferenti...
According to data from China Customs, the bottled wine import market slowed in the first quarter of 2012.
In terms of volume, Customs reported 6.44m cases from January through March 2012, an increase o...
China's copper imports dropped 19% in April, generating the all-too-predictable spate of headlines about slumping demand and excess stocks in the world's largest consumer of the metal.
And true, at 3,7...
China's crude oil imports in April rose 3.3% year on year to 22.26 million mt, or an average of 5.44 million b/d, preliminary data released on May 10, 2012 by the country's General Administration of C...
According to China Customs statistics, from January to February 2012, sugar imports to China reached 236,000 tons with a value of USD 140 million, respectively up 6 times year-on-year and 4.2 times ye...