Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'international trade'

Polyethylene And Alice In Wonderland

  Source of picture: the-office.com     By John Richardson A FURTHER illustration of the Alice in Wonderland world of financial investors versus the fundamentals of real demand was provided by the Dalian Commodity Exchange earlier this week. "Some investment...

Asian Polyolefins Face Two-Year Freight Squeeze

Container Freight Rates: Luck Before Brains Source of picture: blogs.princeton.edu   By John Richardson ASIA'S polyolefin industry is facing additional pressure from new Middle East capacity due to higher freight rates from the Middle East to Europe, the blog has been told. This...

China Export Gains Raise Sustainability Fears

  Source of picture: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23512037/     CHINA is making export gains at the expense of other higher-cost competitors that might not be sustainable because of reasons including rising trade protectionism and economic rebalancing. Chemical companies need to factor...