2009年1月29日星期四

Edible oil

The imports were valued at 8.47 billion U.S. dollars, up 50.5 percent over the year-earlier level.
Palm oil claimed a 60.5-percent share of China's total edible oil arrivals with an import volume of 4.13 million tonnes, up 1 percent. The growth rate was 6.1 percentage points below the year-earlier level.
Approximately 63.4 percent of the edible oil imports, or 4.7 million tonnes, came from ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members, up 0.7 percent.
Foreign-funded companies accounted for 46.7 percent of China's total edible oil imports. They bought 3.46 million tonnes, down 17.2 percent.

2009年1月13日星期二

Ford may be forced

Sales at that level would trigger the need for as much as 13 billion U.S. dollars in loans, Ford told Congress last month. That would undercut the company's attempt to win customers by portraying itself as Detroit's healthiest automaker, after GM and Chrysler both sought federal financial aid.
The U.S. automakers and industry analysts agree that domestic sales will fall again this year after tumbling 18 percent in 2008 to 13.2 million units, short of the annual average of about 16 million over the past decade. The size of the plunge is the only dispute.