Tag: China
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EU Commission Slaps 48% Tariffs on Chinese Plastics
The European Commission has imposed five-year tariffs of up to 48.1% on Chinese PET roofing fabric, reviving questions about Europe’s…
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Chinese Study Challenges OK Compost Certification
Chinese scientists found polymer residues in certified PLA/PBAT cutlery and projected disintegration beyond the OK compost INDUSTRIAL certification benchmark standard.
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BASF Teams Up with China’s Highsun to Rescue European Nylon
BASF and Chinese caprolactam giant Highsun explore a 50:50 joint venture combining their European polyamide 6 businesses to cut costs.
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China’s Petrochemical Expansion Challenges Europe’s Industrial Future
China’s competitive exports and Europe’s rising costs intensify industrial tensions, prompting Brussels to consider trade-defence measures to protect strategic manufacturing…
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China Faces Petrochemical Shortages as Prices Rise
China’s petrochemical inventories are shrinking amid feedstock shortages, driving up chemical prices despite continued industry overcapacity and uncertain future demand.
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Did Russia and China Ultimately Win the Cold War?
Did Russia and China Ultimately Win the Cold War? Perhaps Russia and China ultimately won the Cold War—not militarily or…
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China Reports Overnight Petrochemical Production Disruptions
Chinese chemical producers report plant outages and planned maintenance, raising concerns about supply disruptions across several important industrial chemical markets.
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EU Plans Trade Restrictions on Chinese Chemicals and Machinery
Brussels considers restricting Chinese chemicals and machinery imports as European manufacturers face increasing competition and pressure from China’s industrial expansion.
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Iran Struggles to Find Alternative Oil Export Routes
Iran faces limited pipeline infrastructure and tanker capacity, making alternative oil export routes through the Caspian Sea difficult and costly.
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Saudi Aramco’s Giant Petrochemical Complex in China Opens Soon
Saudi Aramco’s giant Chinese refinery and petrochemical complex approaches production, expanding crude processing and manufacturing capacity for plastics chemicals.
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Shipping US Oil to China Has Become Too Expensive
American crude oil becomes increasingly unaffordable for Chinese refiners as soaring tanker costs threaten trade between the two countries.
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Russia and China Expand Their Grip on the Arctic
Russia and China strengthen their Arctic presence as competition intensifies over shipping routes, energy resources, minerals and strategic infrastructure.
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China Turns to Iraqi Oil as Iranian Supplies Collapse
Chinese refiners turn to Iraqi and Qatari crude as Iranian supplies fall sharply, tightening margins and reshaping Asia’s oil trade.
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China Opens Anti-Dumping Probe Into EU Chemical Exports
China launches an anti-dumping probe into EU p-nitrotoluene imports, adding chemicals to the growing list of EU–China trade disputes.
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Macron Links EU Competitiveness Loss to Russian Gas
Macron links Europe’s competitiveness decline to the loss of cheap Russian gas and growing competitive pressure from China
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Message to Xi Jinping: How to Deal with the European Commission
A satirical SOS to Xi Jinping, offering tongue-in-cheek advice on navigating Brussels, bureaucracy, regulation and Europe’s frustrated middle class today.
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China Suspends Fuel Exports
China halts most October fuel exports, prioritising domestic supply as Middle Eastern and Russian disruptions tighten regional markets and boost…
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EU Targets Chinese PVC Imports After INEOS Complaint
INEOS welcomes European Commission investigation into unfair PVC imports and calls for urgent reform of EU trade defence.
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How China Replaced EU as a World Power
China’s long-term rise in science, technology, industry and geopolitics contrasts with Europe’s declining influence, competitiveness and global strategic weight.
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China Tightens Chemical Exports to Help US Fight Fentanyl
China tightens chemical export controls on fentanyl precursors, linking industrial chemical trade with the wider fight against drugs and organised…
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Oil, Chemicals and Plastics on the Trump–Xi Agenda
Trump–Xi talks could reshape oil, chemicals and plastics through tariffs, Iranian crude, industrial overcapacity, critical minerals and supply-chain restrictions.
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China Revolutionises Oil Refining
Chinese researchers unveil membrane-based oil refining technology that could cut energy use, emissions and costs across fuels, chemicals and plastics.
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Trump vs China: The Oil Price War
Trump’s Iran strategy may squeeze China’s oil lifelines, boost American crude, and push Beijing into an even tighter energy alliance…
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EU Blames China for the Collapse of Its Chemical and Plastics Industry
Europe blames China for its industrial decline, but Brussels may need to confront how much of the damage is self-inflicted.
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Oil Shock Sends Plastic Prices Higher
Oil’s surge toward $100 is lifting Chinese plastics and petrochemical prices, raising fears of higher costs across global supply chains.
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Is China Quietly Stabilising Global Oil Prices?
China’s weaker demand and large crude inventories are helping cushion global oil prices despite Middle East disruptions.
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How Opium and Communism Westernized China
An opinion piece arguing that modern China progressively replaced much of traditional Chinese civilization by adopting Western political, industrial, technological…
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Scientists Call for Mandatory UN Plastics Treaty Reporting
Scientists urge mandatory global plastics reporting under the UN treaty to track production, trade, recycling, chemicals, waste flows and progress.
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China Turns to Russian Oil as Middle East Supplies Tighten
China’s growing purchases of Russian oil could raise costs for smaller refiners and affect plastics production.
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Asian Plastics in Crisis
Asian plastics producers face mounting pressure as naphtha shortages, force majeure declarations and weak margins disrupt petrochemical production across region.
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PetroChina Bets on Petrochemicals
PetroChina accelerates its petrochemical and advanced-materials expansion as declining transport-fuel demand reshapes China’s oil refining and chemicals industry.
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15 Dead at SIBUR–Sinopec Gas Chemical Complex
A deadly fire at the massive SIBUR–Sinopec petrochemical complex highlights the human risks behind expanding global plastics production capacity.
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Sinopec Looks Beyond the Gulf for Crude Oil
China’s Sinopec is moving to diversify its crude oil supplies as conflict in the Middle East exposes the risks of…
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How to Make the Chinese Great Again
This article offers a few practical and cultural observations on how Chinese companies and their people can operate more effectively…
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China Joins the Great Recycled Plastic Treasure Hunt
After nearly nine years of keeping foreign plastic waste at arm’s length, China is reopening its borders to certain recycled…
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China’s Fuel Export Strategy Gains Speed
China Reinforces Its Position as Asia’s Refining Powerhouse
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How China Took One for the Team to Keep Oil Markets Stable
China’s Lower Oil Imports Helped Stabilize the Global Market
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Chinese insights on whether oil is a fossil ressource
One of the most persistent conspiracy theories surrounding the fossil oil industry is the claim that oil isn’t a fossil…
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EU China PBAT Anti dumping Investigation
The European Commission on June 4 opened an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese imports of polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) and related…
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China Masters the EU Greenwashing Code
China Masters the EU Greenwashing Code
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Chinese social media ads for plastic recycling (Video)
Europe was talking about it, China is already advertising it on social media. China has become streetwise overnight while Europe…
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China converts seawater into plastic
Chinese did it again. Europe spent billions in researching how to convert food crops into plastic. Chinese converted seawater into…
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Is China the new enemy?
I was recently speaking with an EU lobbyist who runs a PR agency in Brussels. He told me that China…
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Strengthening buyer-supplier relationships for certified sustainable palm oil: the next step for Chinese brands
https://www.eco-business.com/news/strengthening-buyer-supplier-relationships-for-certified-sustainable-palm-oil-the-next-step-for-chinese-brands
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China plans to rip off Cambodia with waste
China intends to export its plastic waste to Cambodia. Has China suddenly invented a new recycling method of are they…
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Mr. Trump, China is smuggling palm oil branded as UCO into US
Palm Oil Palm oil is a first generation biofuel and bioplastics feedstock used in both biofuels and bioplastics. The problem…
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Turning a problem into a resource: Scientists transform biomass tar into high-value carbon materials
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1099858 https://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=64922
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AI Catalysis and Microreaction Technology Enable Mass Production of High-performance Biobased Materials.
Xiangsheng Technology Completes Two Rounds of Angel+ Round Financing Worth Tens of Millions of Yuanai
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China: General Safety Requirements of Food Contact Materials and Articles Notified
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Corruption and human rights still a problem in China
China is a positive example but still faces major problems. This is a FREE article.
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China Biofuels annual report
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China expands anti-corruption and frugality measures
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China Announces Additional 90 Day Suspension of Tariffs on US Goods
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Clariant Catalysts and Shanghai Electric launch alliance to advance China’s energy transition
https://www.clariant.com/en/Corporate/News/2025/07/Clariant-Catalysts-and-Shanghai-Electric-launch-alliance-to-advance-Chinas-energy-transition
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Guangdong launches world’s first 200,000 tons/year plastic recycling plant
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202507/12/WS6871c65ba31000e9a573ba30.html
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China knows in advance when and where EU biofuels audits are done
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-concludes-examination-potential-chinese-biofuel-imports-fraud-2025-07-18_en
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PHA, the Greenest Plastic So Far: Advancing Microbial Synthesis, Recovery, and Sustainable Applications for Circularity
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.5c00684
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China’s Pesticide Registration Reaches New Heights with Diverse and Eco-friendly Formulations
Read https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-pesticide-registration-reaches-heights-132100702.html
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China Suspends Section 301 Tariff Exclusion for US Agricultural Products
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Guangdong launches world’s first 200,000 tons/year plastic recycling plant
Read https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202507/12/WS6871c65ba31000e9a573ba30.html
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For some Western firms, China is the place for carbon dioxide utilization
Read https://cen.acs.org/environment/greenhouse-gases/Western-firms-China-place-carbon/103/web/2025/07
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New bioplastic production in China (FREE)
Read Company makes strides in biodegradable plastic
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Chinese start-up introduces souvenir bags made from plastic waste (FREE)
Read Chinese start-up introduces souvenir bags made from plastic waste
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China continues push for greener packaging (FREE)
Read China continues push for greener packaging
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China New Food Materials and Additives Approved – Including GMM Derived Enzymes
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Tariff Rates Updated following May 12 Joint US-China Statement
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In break for chemical makers, Trump pauses most China tariffs
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The governance mechanism of household waste sorting in China: insights from residential communities in Yuelu, Changsha
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China pivots to Europe for used cooking oil exports as tariffs hit shipments to US
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China unveils packaging regulations to tackle waste and boost recycling in express delivery sector
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Trump-China Plastic Continent Controversy
Excuse my French but Trump is not entirely wrong on this one. China played a role regarding the plastic continents…
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Will China fulfil its key climate pledge?
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China New Genetically Modified Corn and Soybean Variety Registration List Published
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China SCTC and GACC Announcements and Guidance on Additional Tariffs for All Goods from the United States
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China MOF SCTC Announces Adding 34 Percent Tariff on All Goods Originating from United States
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Number One Document Provides Beijing’s Thoughts and Highlights Food Security and Rural Reform
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Chinese scientists introduce new bio-based nanocomposite, green alternative to traditional plastics
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How China’s renewable pricing reforms will affect its climate goals
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Bio-based polyester nanocomposites offer high performance and reprocessability
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China used cooking oil (UCO) report
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Chinese researchers study impact of PBAT and the results are not good
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Navigating China’s Social Media Landscape – A Guide for US Agricultural Exporters
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EU Commission takes action against Chinese biofuel dumping
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Along the Mekong, fishers and farmers battle a plastics catastrophe
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Malaysia imposes anti-dumping duties on plastic imports from China, Indonesia
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China Used Cooking Oils Export Tax Rebate Terminated (Report)
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China Agricultural Biotechnology Annual report
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Why China is smarter than EU when it comes to climate policies
EU institutions believe they’re better than the rest of the world. In reality, Europe is an old continent without popular…
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China: New and Renewed Biosafety Certificates Issued
On October 11, 2024, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) announced the issuance of new and renewed biosafety…
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China National Standard Soil Environmental Quality Risk Control Standard for Soil Contamination of Agricultural Land
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China Biofuels Annual report
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China’s latest efforts to address marine plastic waste
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China’s emerging role in driving sustainable palm oil: a global imperative
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Policies to support development promotes growth of Lactic Acid and PLA in China
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How China destroyed the EU biofuel market
Biofuel has become a synonym for greenwashing fraud amongst EU consumers. I’m not sure if the EU commission is corrupt…
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Changhua breaks ground on carbon dioxide-to-polyols plant
Changhua breaks ground on carbon dioxide-to-polyols plant
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China PBAT production Update
China PBAT production Update — The bioplastic industry was built upon unfair commercial practices. A combination of aggressive lobbying, misappropriation…
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Chinese scientists have created a fireproof and waterproof alternative to glass
Chinese scientists have created a fireproof and waterproof alternative to glass
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GF Piping Systems supplies 5,000 valves for revolutionized bioplastics production in China
GF Piping Systems supplies 5,000 valves for revolutionized bioplastics production in China
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Major Chinese-European collaboration begins to find high-value, eco-friendly uses for agri-food residues
Major Chinese-European collaboration begins to find high-value, eco-friendly uses for agri-food residues
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