The Indonesian government will not impose quota to restrict steel pipe import from China as it would violate the free trade agreement between China and ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, an official has said.
“If the government imposes import quota (on Chinese steel pipe), China will take reciprocal measures,” director of metal industry [...]
BAOSHAN Iron & Steel Co, China’s biggest steel mill, said first-half profit surged 80 percent after it increased production and prices to meet demand from auto makers such as Volkswagen AG and General Motors Corp.
Net income gained to 8.16 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion), or 0.47 yuan a share, in the six months ended June 30, [...]
RUSSIA’S United Co Rusal, the world’s largest aluminum producer, expects to export aluminum to China starting 2009, a company official said yesterday.
Annual exports to China may be 200,000 tons to 300,000 tons at the start, Peter Finnimore, Rusal’s aluminum sales director, told reporters in Shanghai.
The main hurdle for exports to China is the lower prices, [...]
Symbian has announced the establishment of a global R&D center in Beijing.
The center is Symbian’s fourth R&D center with the others located in the United Kingdom and India. The new facility will play a key role in the company’s continuing development of Symbian OS. Symbian OS is licensed to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and [...]
Ericsson China has told local media that they would provide communications service for Beijing’s No. 10 subway line.
Ericsson said that some 3G network interfaces had been preserved on the subway line and it could support the three mainstream 3G standards of TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 and WCDMA when an outdoor network is constructed.
Chen Dexing, supervisor of Ericsson [...]
The Chinese mainland is to levy five-year anti-dumping duties from Aug. 30 on BPA (Bisphenol-A) imported from Japan, Singapore, Republic of Korea, and Taiwan, said the Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday.
Importers of BPA, a type of organic chemical mainly used in producing antiseptic and paint, would have to pay a 5 to 37.1-percent duty to [...]
