The National Board of Revenue (NBR) in Bangladesh announced its plans to reduce tax on gold brought into the country through legal route. The move is aimed at ensuring availability of gold in the country and curbing gold smuggling activitie...
The Athens, Ohio, City Council recently introduced an ordinance that would extend the citys waste and recycling contract with Athens Hocking Recycling Center for another year. The contract is set to expire on July 1, and if the ordinance is...
The exports of copper waste and scrap by the U.S. registered sharp decline during the first four months of the current year, says latest trade data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. The country exported $993.97 million worth of scrap cop...
The most recent trade statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that exports of aluminum scrap registered marginal decline during the initial four-month period of the current year. The exports were valued at $773.55 million du...
The Wood Resources Quarterly Report for Q1 2019 indicates that the free fall in lumber prices in the U.S. came to a halt in early-2019, with prices hitting cyclical lows in January 2019. According to the report, the global softwood lumber t...
The Indian Environment Ministry announced that plastic waste imports to the country will be banned effective August this year. The move is part of governments efforts to curb pollution. The announcement to this effect was made by Environmen...
The latest edition of the monthly Lead and Zinc Statistics Bulletin published by the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) suggests that global market for refined zinc metal ended in deficit during the initial four-month period of...
China will limit the import of copper scrap to a maximum of 240 000 tonnes in the third quarter of 2019, according to an official list of quotas, media reports and information from members, says the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR)....
Chinas policy on scrap imports continues to hit US exports of both ferrous and non-ferrous grades. The latest quarterly data from the Census Bureau and the International Trade Commission shows that the value of all scrap exports from the US...
