China’s steel products exports in September surged 50.2% to hit 6.67 million tons from a year earlier, according to the General Administration of Customs.
However, the figure is 1.01 million tons lower than that in August this year.
For the first nine months this year, steel products exports dropped 2.1% from a year ago to 4.85 million [...]
The rising yuan, along with escalating production costs, drove half of China’s toy exporters out of business in the first seven months of this year, the General Administration of Customs said in a report on Monday.
A total of 3,631 toy exporters, or 52.7 percent of the industry’s total, shut down in 2008. They were mainly [...]
China’s mainland customs authority said on Monday trade with Taiwan would continue maintaining the current momentum to grow steadily.
According to the mainland’s General Administration of Customs, trade between the mainland and Taiwan in August amounted to $12.23 billion, in which the mainland’s imports were worth $9.7 billion and exports to Taiwan achieved a record $2.52 [...]
China’s foreign exchange reserves surged 32.92% from a year earlier to hit US$ 1.9056 trillion by the end of September, said the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) on its website.
In the first nine months of 2008, the foreign-exchange reserves increased by US$377.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of US$10 billion, or an average monthly rise of [...]
Global miner Rio Tinto (RIO.AX: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) (RIO.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) warned on Wednesday of slowing Chinese demand for commodities because of the global financial crisis, and signalled a possible delay in plans to sell $10 billion in assets.
Rio, which had promised to sell non-core assets this year to pay [...]
The latest foreign trade figures from the Customs on Oct. 13 show that China’s imports of primary products sped up quickly and prices of those imports were high over the first nine months of the year.
China imported 294.2 billion USD of primary products from January to September, representing a sharp increase of 69.5 percent over [...]
