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BTI Bulk Trading International SA will stop trading nonferrous metals this month as a result of its exposure to bankrupt London Metal Exchange broker MF Global Inc., a company executive told AMM sister publication Metal Bulletin.
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The Senate Finance Committee has voted to approve Meredith Broadbent, a senior advisor at Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, as a member of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
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The ITA has preliminarily determined in the changed circumstances review of aluminum extrusions from China that Guangdong Zhongya Aluminum Co. Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Zhaoqing New Zhongya Aluminum Co. Ltd. and will have the same dumping-duty liability of 33.28 percent.
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The ITA has issued its final results in the anti-dumping duty administrative review of folding metal tables and chairs from China for the June 1, 2010, to May 31, 2011, period of review.
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The ITA has amended the final results in the anti-dumping duty review on heavy forged hand tools from China for the Feb. 1, 2003, to Jan. 30, 2004, period of review.
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SeAH Steel Corp. is appealing certain aspects of a final determination by the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) concerning the 18th administrative review of the anti-dumping duty order on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from South Korea, according to a filing with the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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U.S. ferrous scrap export prices strengthened further this week after four bulk cargoes were sold to Turkey at prices some $2 to $3 per tonne higher than those reported last week.
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Ohio lawmakers have moved forward in their efforts to urge President Obama to label China a currency manipulator.
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Talks aimed at moving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) forward appear to have gained traction as Canada and Mexico were invited to join the talks last week, but some remain skeptical of the program.
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The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has amended the final results in its anti-dumping administrative review of hand trucks from China for Dec. 1, 2005, to Nov. 30, 2006.
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Low natural gas prices should see gas generate as much electricity as coal in the United States by 2017 as North America enters a "golden age" of natural gas production, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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Mines, metals producers and fabricators all added jobs during May, helping to boost the nation’s manufacturing employment base by 0.5 percent from April, according to not-seasonally-adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). However, overall U.S. job numbers were markedly weaker.
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The Obama administration has launched a $26-million initiative to use public-private partnerships to foster job growth in manufacturing.
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The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has eliminated a provision that revokes duty rates for individual exporters/producers after they receive a rate of zero for three consecutive years in anti-dumping duty cases and a rate of zero for five consecutive years in countervailing duty cases.
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Primary and fabricated metal shipments and new orders showed mixed moves in April, falling slightly from March but rising year on year.
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The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has determined that dumped and subsidized imports of certain stainless steel sinks from China have caused injury to the domestic industry, and the Canada Border Services Agency will start collecting duties on the product.
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The ITA is initiating anti-dumping duty administrative reviews on imports of certain steel threaded rod, magnesium metal and front-seating service valves from April 1, 2011, to March 31, 2012.
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The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) is initiating an inquiry to determine whether imports of uncovered innerspring units from China are circumventing an anti-dumping duty order.
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Uneven U.S. trade law enforcement remains a top concern of wire industry participants, according to Leggett & Platt government policy and legal affairs strategist Amy DeArmond.
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The 24-hour news cycle might be projecting another global recession in the near term, but most macroeconomic indicators are actually pointing to modest growth in both the immediate future and years ahead, according to Clare W. Zempel, principal at Fox Point, Wis.-based economic analysis firm Zempel Strategic.
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Funding and a lack of qualified teachers are the biggest obstacles to keeping the U.S. mining engineering industry alive, the head of the University of Arizona’s Department of Mining and Geological Engineering told AMM Wednesday in an interview ahead of the Copper Club’s annual dinner in Phoenix.
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Metals fabricators and primary metals producers saw capacity utilization rates increase last month, along with the indices for industrial production, the Federal Reserve Board said Wednesday.
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The Senate was set to vote Thursday on a bill to expand funding to the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Wednesday on a bill that would increase the lending cap of the U.S. Export-Import Bank before a May 31 deadline.