Just today, the WTO dispute settlement panel essentially voted in favor of several allegations from the EU that the US provided subsidies to Boeing Co. for civilian aircraft that weren’t in compliance with SCA (Subsidies and Countervailing Measures) Agreement rules. This resulted in, the European Communities allege, unfair export advantages for Boeing. In the most [...]
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Tin has been one of the wonder boys of recent months, powering up to over $32,000 per ton in the early part of the year, falling back briefly to $28,000 in March and then forging back up to over $31,000 while other superstars like copper have struggled. Source: LME So what on earth are tin [...]
An article in Mineweb last week reported that silver imports in India had dropped off dramatically this year and suggested the high price may be to blame. Silver imports into India from April 2010 to February 2011 dropped to 343 tons from 451.5 tons in the same period of 2010. The largest precious-metal importing region [...]
As a follow-up to our previous discussion about recent developments in carbon capture technology in the steel industry, we turn to the policy side of things by looking at the battle between Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The battle boils down to major sides (although of course there are others as well, including [...]
Perhaps the biggest hurdle to the widespread uptake of electric cars is not their comparatively short range, but the long time it takes to re-charge the batteries. If a car like the Nissan Leaf manages only an 80-90 mile range as this test suggests (as against the manufacturers’ 108 miles from a tank of sparks) [...]
by Lisa Reisman on March 29, 2011
Style: Market Analysis
Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Metal Prices, Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
Keywords: Aluminum, Copper, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Steel, Zinc
Nothing gets the creative juices flowing more than a good debate! We, particularly, enjoy debates in which we see nearly opposite points of view, all within the same time period. In today’s headline match, we examine one side of a debate around the direction of metal prices, particularly for copper, aluminum, zinc and steel as [...]
(Continued from Part One.) As the DOE’s Industrial Technologies Program has a hand in funding or guiding most of the following research on how to reduce steelmaking emissions, the latter half of the report detailing the new technology options reads much like a commercial at times; nonetheless, some of the efforts are worth detailing. Hydrogen [...]
