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• China Looking to Close Hundreds of Steel Mills

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  After a largely useless attempt in March to control over capacity in the Chinese steel industry, the authorities are now using a twin track approach to try and reign in steel production capacity which only the most radical super-cycle supporter could believe is justified.First, no doubt with one eye on the current ...
  2 days ago

• No let up in the pressure of protectionism

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 521
  Guest Author: Simon J. Evenett, University of St. Gallen The third report of the Global Trade Alert (GTA)contains five analyses. Firstly, the latest assessment of protectionist dynamics. Secondly, a focus on the Asia-Pacific region with an assessment of who is imposing what forms of protectionism in the region and ...
  3 days ago

• 106 Discrete Steps to Global Trade

  
  Sourcing Innovation — Authority: 136
  Stanford University Professors Warren Hausman and Hau Lee recently decided that an end-to-end model was required for global trade management and decided to research the requirements. Analyzing imported goods from Asia to the US in the apparel sector, Hausman and Lee identified 106 discrete steps in the global trade ...
  4 days ago

• Steel Mill Investment Delays in India for Arcelor, Posco and Tata

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  It would seem the western world is not the only place where licensing and land acquisition hinder economic development. Contrary to what many supporters of trade barriers would have one believe, steel mills in some developing countries don’t all have land handed to them with licenses in place to build a steel or ...
  4 days ago

• Obamas Support of Trade Liberalization, The Greenest Solution

  
  Copenhagen Insider — Authority: 545
  Advertisement How muchshould wealthy countries help poor countries protect themselves from theextremes of climate change that are expected to worsen near the Equator? Whatis the opportunity for American businesses and entrepreneurs who build andcreate clean technology at home to deploying that ...
  4 days ago

• EPA Endangerment Finding – Could it Undo Climate Change Policy?

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  Besides perhaps the health care debate, no single policy issue has created as much controversy as the EPA’s recent ‘endangerment’ declaration that greenhouse gas emissions cause people harm. And as my colleague Stuart posted last week, “whatever one may think of the whole concept of carbon trading and however ...
  5 days ago

• Could Corus Closure Have More to do With Carbon Credits?

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  The loss of 1,700 jobs is always a tragedy although in the steel industry unfortunately not an unusual story. Nor did Tata’s Corus come in for a huge amount of blame when they announced this week that they were closing the three million ton per year merchant bar plant at Teesside in the UK after [...]
  5 days ago

• Also In Global Health News: Illegal Drug Trade In E. Africa; Somalia Humanitarian Crisis; Alcohol, IV Drug Use In Russia; HIV/AIDS In China; More

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  Illegal Drug Trade Turning East Africa Into Major Crime Center, U.N. Official Says In a speech to the U.N. Security Council Tuesday, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N… Source: Also In Global Health News: Illegal Drug Trade In E. Africa; Somalia Humanitarian Crisis; Alcohol, IV Drug Use In Russia; ...
  1 week ago

• Satellite Imagery Used to Combat Surge of Pirate Attacks

  
  got geoint? — Authority: 467
  The surge of pirate attacks off of African has become a more issue for the shipping industry and global trade in general. There has been an estimated 125 attacks and 45 ships were actually seized by pirates in the past two years. Experts believe that the number of attacks could be higher, as piracy is believed to be ...
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• The Silent Crisis: Topsoil

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 618
  The world continues to deplete its base of arable land. Though it’s been going on for some time, the dramatic blows are only now showing their effect. In East and North Africa, in the plains of India all the way to Turkey, the story is the same. Some of it is just human carelessness about the land. Some of it is ...
  1 week ago

• Weak Dollar is not Good for all US Companies

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  Calls for a halt to the dollar’s slide by foreign owners of US assets such as the Chinese and fellow trading blocks like the EU and Japan that are struggling to compete with a weak dollar have been joined by a supporter from an unexpected quarter recently.Klaus Kleinfeld, chief executive of America’s Alcoa is ...
  1 week ago

• How to Kill an 800 Pound Gorilla

  
  The Corner Office — Authority: 492
  Americans love success stories, but we love train wrecks too. The only thing that gets us as excited as rocket-ship rides like Apple or Google are the demise of Apple or Google. But 800 pound corporate gorillas dont die easily, and they almost never die at the hands of a competitor.
  1 week ago

• The ...zombie economy that inhabits a netherworld between life and death (The Cuts Wont Work)

  
  Vowles the Green in Knowle — Authority: 120
  I agree very strongly with the second report of the Green New Deal group entitled The Cuts Wont Work (extract below from the Executive Summary) available from the New Economics Foundation when they assert that their Green New Deal will reduce the public debt, cut carbon emissions, increase energy security and ...
  1 week ago

• Goldman Sachs Bullish on 2010-2012 Growth

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  Love them or hate them – and there are many in both camp – you have to accept that Goldman Sachs has been phenomenally successful in reading (and possibly manipulating markets) during the last decade. So when they come out with predictions on what the markets will be doing over the next two years people [...]
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• Copenhagen Climate Conference Looks to Draw US Into Carbon Trading

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  Whatever one may think of the whole concept of carbon trading and however flawed one believes existing trading systems are – and believe me this site has frequently criticized both – the fact remains that carbon trading is almost certainly here to stay and will have a major impact on business and our personal ...
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• BHP Moves Coking Coal to Spot Pricing

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  BHP, the world’s largest supplier of coking coal used in steel making is pushing for annual contract pricing to be based on spot prices rather than the traditional annual fixed price contracts. If successful, costs for steel makers are likely to rise as spot prices are predicted to be higher in 2010/11 than now.BHP ...
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• Are We Setting Ourselves Up For Another Economic Crisis?

  
  The Corner Office — Authority: 492
  Today, U.S. Senate lawmakers voiced their opinions on the role of the Federal Reserve in our economic meltdown. With unemployment over 10 percent, a record federal deficit, and the looming specter of inflation, its not at all clear were doing anything differently, going forward.
  2 weeks ago

• "Surprise" Tariff Increase on Solar Panels

  
  Sourcing Innovation — Authority: 136
  Editors Note: Todays post is from Dick Locke, Sourcing Innovations resident expert on International Sourcing and Procurement. (His previous guest posts are still archived.) The October 1 New York Times has an interesting article on a tariff increase on solar panels. While the panels came from China, thats not the ...
  2 weeks ago

• China Considers an Import Duty on Primary Aluminum

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  Talk of China imposing an import tax on primary aluminum has had the market in a stir trying to predict the likely impact if it went ahead. Rising imports this year have led to a lot of pressure on domestic producers, a spokesman for the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is quoted as saying [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Brazil’s Steel Industry Copes Well in Global Downturn

  
  MetalMiner — Authority: 546
  Brazil has been hailed as one of few countries to have largely survived the downturn without going into recession and to be growing strongly on the back of domestic demand. The Brazilian metals industry has historically been characterized as resource rich but processing poor. However, in the last decade, the country ...
  2 weeks ago

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