US imports of Chinese used cooking oil set for new record, future uncertain

U.S. imports of used cooking oil (UCO) from China are set to hit a record in the months ahead, even as regulatory uncertainty casts doubts over longer-term prospects of a trade that boomed last year, ... Read More

STU ELLIS: Used cooking oil from China helping fuel diesel-powered vehicles

One of the biggest categories of agricultural commodities imported into the U.S. is horticulture, and some of that is used cooking oil from China. Read More

Why Contaminated Cooking Oil in China Is A Recipe for Disaster

The cooking oil contamination scandal demonstrates China’s long-standing struggle to improve food safety measures. Massive scandals involving contaminated food products have driven some middle-class ... Read More

China Fines Seven Companies Over Tainted Cooking Oil Scandal

China has fined seven companies for their involvement in a tainted cooking oil scandal that caused a nationwide uproar over food safety last month. Read More

Cooking Oil Scandal: Only 2 Trucks Contaminated, Gov’t Says

Chinese investigators confirmed that two truckloads of cooking oil had been contaminated with fuel but found no evidence of an industry-wide problem. Read More

Polestar CEO: Chinese tariffs aside, building Polestar 3 in US has been years in the making

The move is a way, among other things, to avoid US tariffs on China-made EVs. Polestar, founded in 2017 and spun off from Volvo and parent company China’s Geely in a merger in 2022, will use ... Read More

Chinese Body Says EU Draft on EV Tariffs Lacks Objectivity, Fairness

BEIJING (Reuters) - The European Union's draft findings from an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EV) lack objectivity and fairness, a Chinese industry body said on Wednesday. Read More

China Builds the World’s Largest Oil Platform

China, the world’s biggest maker of solar panels, EVs, and wind turbines, has built the world’s largest offshore oil platform that will be used at the ... allows us to unlock previously ... Read More

Malaysia says it won't bow to China's demands to halt oil exploration in the South China Sea

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says Malaysia will not bow to demands by China to stop its oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea as the activities are within the country’s waters ... Read More

EU Tariffs Force China to Seek New Biodiesel Markets

As part of the anti-dumping investigation, the EU decided last month to impose provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese HVO (hydro-treated vegetable oil) and FAME (fatty acid methyl ... Read More

China’s Nightmare: A Second Trade War With Trump

The Republican nominee has said he would raise tariffs on Chinese imports to 60% or more if he wins this year’s presidential election. The economic damage to China would be much steeper than in ... Read More