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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Wednesday, 26 December 2012 20:29
News came from Ningbo Customs that Ningbo’s total volume of imports and exports reached 88.4 billion US Dollars in the first 11 months of 2012, a decrease of 1.5% over the same period last year, reaching the record high over the same period in the past five years. Among which, the imports reached 32.1 billion, US Dollars, a decrease of 6.28% over the same period last year and the exports reached 56.3 billion US Dollars, an increase of 1.5% over the same period last year. The trade surplus totalled 24.2 billion, an increase of 14%. The surplus expanded significantly was mainly due to the sharply fall of commodity futures, steel and copper imports in this year.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Wednesday, 26 December 2012 20:28
The fifth session of the fifth president meeting of the Ningbo Association for the Improvement of Economic Construction was held in Ningbo on December 18. Presidents of all branches of the NAIEC and the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce attended the meeting. Liuqi, Chen Yijun and Wang Jianshe granted an interview to the representatives. Liu Zhongli, Ye Rutang, Zhuang Xiaotian, Zhang Weiwen, Wang Zhuohui, Chen Yunjin and Wang Xiaobo attended the meeting.
At present, 16 branches of the NAIEC and 30 branches of the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce were set up in China, which have made large contributions for the economical and social development of their cities. The educational fund, established by all the branches of the NAIEC and the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce, has invested 2500 Ningbo poverty-stricken students for their educational expenses.
Liu Zhongli made the work report of the NAIEC at the meet. The meeting noted that the association should properly conduct the election, widely introduce talents and make sound consulting work, attracting more investment from overseas Ningbo merchants and give full play to the brand, service and information advantage of the “Ningbo Merchants”, safeguard their legal rights and interests, strengthen the propaganda work and further improve the influence and social status of the “Ningbo Merchants”.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Wednesday, 26 December 2012 20:26
According to the Swedish Chemicals Agency, the European Union has intensified the examination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) content in the imported tires and required authentication and examination certificates from suppliers.
PAHs are produced as byproducts of fuel burning (whether fossil fuel or biomass). When they wear, tires will give off PAHs pollutants which are of concern because of their persistent and cancerogenic harm to people’s health and the environment.
Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Department notices that Ningbo enterprises should pay much attention to the change, as tires produced in Ningbo are exported to Europe and the United States, the two major markets, at a yearly increasing rate.