- China goes to WTO. (world news).
China has asked the WTO to arrange talks with the US Administration over the decision on steel import tariffs. Media reports in Beijing said this was the first complaint by the Chinese authorities to the WTO since joining the organisation last December. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade said the ......
- Disagreement reigns on steel price, supply
Steel producers in the fourth quarter wrestled with falling prices, high supply levels and weaker North American demand. That’s why carbon and alloy steel prices dropped 4% in the final stanza even though they increased 5% for the year. Faced with high customer inventories and record import levels, North American ......
- Nippon Steel results 1H05.
Against the backdrop of a fundamentally expanding world economy, the solid nature of Japan's economic recovery became increasingly apparent in the first half of fiscal 2005. Reflecting this growth were gains in equipment investments, due to improved corporate performance, progress in inventory adjustments in the IT and digital-related fields and ......
- China steel market in recovery.
The steel product market in China is recovering as total production is becoming increasingly controlled. The rise in steel prices arises mainly from controlled output for surplus steel products at home, rising steel prices abroad, increased exports, and decreased imports. Steel production in China from January to April increased 2.9% ......
- Steelmakers To Push Steel Prices
Higher.
Some U.S. steelmakers are seeking their first price hikes in seven years from car manufacturers. The steel companies are pushing for increases of as high as 10 percent in their contracts with the Big Three, according to automotive and metal analysts, responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal....
- Bull or bear? China's participation as a global
player. (Japan Update).
In November, Chinese citizens hailed two epoch-making events that characterised the country's enlarged representation in the global community. The first was that its football team for the first time ever succeeded in qualifying for the World Cup Football Games to be held in Korea and Japan next June. The second ......
- Steel prices in Southeast Asian
plunge.
Steel prices in Southeast Asia are plunging at a record rate, now registering at levels just half that of the early 1990s, according to steel industry sources in Seoul. This is because major steel producers, which have been barred from developed markets that have begun taking protective measures against steel ......