The agreement is in line with recent trends towards locking in longer-term supply of products in Asia
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November 12, 2018
Joe York
April 16, 1947 – October 29, 2018
A native Texan, Joe graduated from Belton High School, in 1965, where he excelled as a football athlete achieving All State recognition and earned an athletic scholarship to University of Texas at Arlington. He could often be found racing his 56 Chevy at Little River Dragway and out in the countryside.
His family would like to thank the amazing Neurosurgery Department of the University of Minnesota Medical Center for their valiant efforts.
Memorial donations may be made in Joe’s name to the Melanoma Research Foundation.
November 11, 2018
Adnoc signs 10-year contract for LPG supply with China’s Wanhua Group
Jennifer Gnana
November 10, 2018
Updated: November 10, 2018 05:36 PM
State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has signed a 10-year sales agreement for liquefied natural gas (LPG) with China’s Wanhua Chemical Group as the Arabian Gulf firm locks in longer-term supply deals with Asian buyers.
Under the terms of the contract, whose value was not disclosed, Wanhua will purchase up to a million tonnes of LPG annually, Adnoc said.
LPG, a refined product, is in high demand in Asia, mainly as a cooking fuel stored in cylinders for stoves as well as a propellant, refrigerant, vehicle fuel and as a feedstock for the petrochemicals industry.
National oil companies such as Adnoc have begun negotiating and signing long-term contracts for products with buyers in East Asia as they look to secure market share and pivot business strategies to focus more downstream. Adnoc currently produces 10.5 million tonnes of LPG per year. The firm is expanding its refining and chemical capabilities through investments of up to $45 billion with partners over the next five years, including plans to build the world’s largest integrated refinery by 2025.
The latest agreement was in line with the expansion of Adnoc’s “client base and penetrating new markets, through a combination of both short and long-term sales and trading opportunities,” Abdulla Salem Al Dhaheri, the company’s marketing, sales and trading director, said on Saturday.
Wanhua is one of the world’s leading producers for methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, often abbreviated as MDI – a key ingredient in the manufacture of high-performance adhesives and synthetic fibres. The company is also a lead producer of toluene diisocyanate, abbreviated as TDI, which finds uses in the manufacture of flexible polyurethane foams used as support in car seats and upholstery. LPG is the key feedstock for the manufacture of both commodities, with the collective demand for the refined products set to exceed six million tonnes annually by 2021.
Wanhua owns the largest underground storage cavern for LPG with a total capacity of 2.4 million cubic metres as well as adjacent port facilities and berths.
The agreement with Wanhua follows several other long-term supply agreements with Japanese and Malaysian firms earlier this year. In March, Adnoc signed two three-year agreements to sell a combined supply of up to 1.5 million tonnes of the oil product naphtha to Idemitsu Kosan of Japan and SCG Chemicals of Thailand.
https://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/adnoc-signs-10-year-contract-for-lpg-supply-with-china-s-wanhua-group-1.790147
November 11, 2018
Adnoc signs 10-year contract for LPG supply with China’s Wanhua Group
The agreement is in line with recent trends towards locking in longer-term supply of products in Asia
Jennifer Gnana
November 10, 2018
Updated: November 10, 2018 05:36 PM
State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has signed a 10-year sales agreement for liquefied natural gas (LPG) with China’s Wanhua Chemical Group as the Arabian Gulf firm locks in longer-term supply deals with Asian buyers.
Under the terms of the contract, whose value was not disclosed, Wanhua will purchase up to a million tonnes of LPG annually, Adnoc said.
LPG, a refined product, is in high demand in Asia, mainly as a cooking fuel stored in cylinders for stoves as well as a propellant, refrigerant, vehicle fuel and as a feedstock for the petrochemicals industry.
National oil companies such as Adnoc have begun negotiating and signing long-term contracts for products with buyers in East Asia as they look to secure market share and pivot business strategies to focus more downstream. Adnoc currently produces 10.5 million tonnes of LPG per year. The firm is expanding its refining and chemical capabilities through investments of up to $45 billion with partners over the next five years, including plans to build the world’s largest integrated refinery by 2025.
The latest agreement was in line with the expansion of Adnoc’s “client base and penetrating new markets, through a combination of both short and long-term sales and trading opportunities,” Abdulla Salem Al Dhaheri, the company’s marketing, sales and trading director, said on Saturday.
Wanhua is one of the world’s leading producers for methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, often abbreviated as MDI – a key ingredient in the manufacture of high-performance adhesives and synthetic fibres. The company is also a lead producer of toluene diisocyanate, abbreviated as TDI, which finds uses in the manufacture of flexible polyurethane foams used as support in car seats and upholstery. LPG is the key feedstock for the manufacture of both commodities, with the collective demand for the refined products set to exceed six million tonnes annually by 2021.
Wanhua owns the largest underground storage cavern for LPG with a total capacity of 2.4 million cubic metres as well as adjacent port facilities and berths.
The agreement with Wanhua follows several other long-term supply agreements with Japanese and Malaysian firms earlier this year. In March, Adnoc signed two three-year agreements to sell a combined supply of up to 1.5 million tonnes of the oil product naphtha to Idemitsu Kosan of Japan and SCG Chemicals of Thailand.
https://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/adnoc-signs-10-year-contract-for-lpg-supply-with-china-s-wanhua-group-1.790147
November 9, 2018
Leggett & Platt among companies harmed by alleged Chinese dumping
Leggett & Platt, others allege Chinese dumping
After a group of mattress manufacturers across the country, including Carthage-based Leggett & Platt Inc., filed a petition accusing China of selling products in the U.S. economy at less than fair market value, investigators have made a preliminary determination that the American market has been harmed by the practice.
The United States International Trade Commission announced recently it has found a “reasonable indication” that the dumping L&P and others have accused China of has occurred and that it has had a damaging effect on U.S. manufacturers.
In trade discussions, “dumping” refers to the practice of selling products internationally at prices that are lower than “fair market value,” said Amy DeArmond, director of government affairs for L&P.
“If they are coming in at prices that are lower than what we can sell at profitably, obviously that puts a strain on either keeping that business and having to sell it at lower prices than where we would be at normally or losing that business altogether,” she said. “Ultimately the ability to gain revenue hits our ability to maintain employee counts and our ability to keep production running.”
DeArmond said selling exported products at less than market value breaks trade laws and could mean the U.S. could eventually seek some kind of compensatory measures. In a news release from late September announcing the allegations, the group of American manufacturers — nine companies in all — said the margin between market value and the prices China has charged is between 267 and 1,777 percent.
Neither L&P nor the Trade Commission has provided a dollar amount estimate of the impact from the alleged dumping, and the formal complaint the companies filed is marked confidential on the trade commission’s website, limiting the details that are publicly available. The commission’s full report on the matter is not expected until after Nov. 30, its news release said. Attempts to reach a USITC spokesperson on Friday were not successful.
However, the companies’ announcement from September explains the degree to which China’s products have allegedly been marked down.
“By relying on dumped prices, including adult mattresses sold at $18 per mattress, Chinese exporters have captured increasing market share at the expense of the U.S. industry and U.S. jobs,” the release said.
DeArmond said companies that dump products at less than market value are often still able to benefit in a number of ways despite the reduced prices.
“Part of it is gaining market share,” she said. “Part of it is export gains and other things they might gain. The Chinese government encourages exports because of the capacity they have in China, so there’s a variety of reasons that a company might participate in dumping.”
The next step, according to DeArmond and the USITC, is a formal investigation by the U.S. Department of Commerce into the costs of production in China, the country’s practices with it’s exports and the impact to the American market. A determination on whether the United States should impose anti-dumping duties on China is expected by Feb. 28, 2019, the commission said.
According to the commission, the mattress industry shipped 16,754,826 mattresses domestically in 2017 for a total value of $4.5 billion. A total of 6,114,504 mattresses were imported into the country for a total value of $781 million. The organization says China was the leading exporter of mattresses to the U.S. both by value and quantity.
The problem of international dumping doing harm to the U.S. economy is not a new one, DeArmond said, and a “wide swath of countries” has been found to do so over several decades.
“Basically, they are underselling for the purpose of taking away market share,” she said. “In some cases that can be lower than the actual cost of production, so it’s not just, ‘I’m usually selling this for $12 and I’m going to sell it for $11.99.’ It’s something much greater than that.”
The American manufacturers, in their news release announcing the investigations, claim to represent more than 50 percent of the total U.S. mattress market. The companies say they combine to operate 50 plants in 20 states and employ more than 8,000 people.
https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/leggett-platt-among-companies-harmed-by-alleged-chinese-dumping/article_73ab3f20-44c3-5571-b62e-1faad586815d.html
November 9, 2018
Leggett & Platt among companies harmed by alleged Chinese dumping
Leggett & Platt, others allege Chinese dumping
After a group of mattress manufacturers across the country, including Carthage-based Leggett & Platt Inc., filed a petition accusing China of selling products in the U.S. economy at less than fair market value, investigators have made a preliminary determination that the American market has been harmed by the practice.
The United States International Trade Commission announced recently it has found a “reasonable indication” that the dumping L&P and others have accused China of has occurred and that it has had a damaging effect on U.S. manufacturers.
In trade discussions, “dumping” refers to the practice of selling products internationally at prices that are lower than “fair market value,” said Amy DeArmond, director of government affairs for L&P.
“If they are coming in at prices that are lower than what we can sell at profitably, obviously that puts a strain on either keeping that business and having to sell it at lower prices than where we would be at normally or losing that business altogether,” she said. “Ultimately the ability to gain revenue hits our ability to maintain employee counts and our ability to keep production running.”
DeArmond said selling exported products at less than market value breaks trade laws and could mean the U.S. could eventually seek some kind of compensatory measures. In a news release from late September announcing the allegations, the group of American manufacturers — nine companies in all — said the margin between market value and the prices China has charged is between 267 and 1,777 percent.
Neither L&P nor the Trade Commission has provided a dollar amount estimate of the impact from the alleged dumping, and the formal complaint the companies filed is marked confidential on the trade commission’s website, limiting the details that are publicly available. The commission’s full report on the matter is not expected until after Nov. 30, its news release said. Attempts to reach a USITC spokesperson on Friday were not successful.
However, the companies’ announcement from September explains the degree to which China’s products have allegedly been marked down.
“By relying on dumped prices, including adult mattresses sold at $18 per mattress, Chinese exporters have captured increasing market share at the expense of the U.S. industry and U.S. jobs,” the release said.
DeArmond said companies that dump products at less than market value are often still able to benefit in a number of ways despite the reduced prices.
“Part of it is gaining market share,” she said. “Part of it is export gains and other things they might gain. The Chinese government encourages exports because of the capacity they have in China, so there’s a variety of reasons that a company might participate in dumping.”
The next step, according to DeArmond and the USITC, is a formal investigation by the U.S. Department of Commerce into the costs of production in China, the country’s practices with it’s exports and the impact to the American market. A determination on whether the United States should impose anti-dumping duties on China is expected by Feb. 28, 2019, the commission said.
According to the commission, the mattress industry shipped 16,754,826 mattresses domestically in 2017 for a total value of $4.5 billion. A total of 6,114,504 mattresses were imported into the country for a total value of $781 million. The organization says China was the leading exporter of mattresses to the U.S. both by value and quantity.
The problem of international dumping doing harm to the U.S. economy is not a new one, DeArmond said, and a “wide swath of countries” has been found to do so over several decades.
“Basically, they are underselling for the purpose of taking away market share,” she said. “In some cases that can be lower than the actual cost of production, so it’s not just, ‘I’m usually selling this for $12 and I’m going to sell it for $11.99.’ It’s something much greater than that.”
The American manufacturers, in their news release announcing the investigations, claim to represent more than 50 percent of the total U.S. mattress market. The companies say they combine to operate 50 plants in 20 states and employ more than 8,000 people.
https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/leggett-platt-among-companies-harmed-by-alleged-chinese-dumping/article_73ab3f20-44c3-5571-b62e-1faad586815d.html