Daily Chemical News Recommendation (Apr 13, 2018)

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> China Threatens Retaliatory Plastics Tariffs 

Trade tensions between the U.S. and China have come closer to directly impacting the plastics recycling industry.

China’s Ministry of Commerce on April 4 issued a list of 106 U.S. products that could be subject to a 25 percent tariff on shipments into China. The list includes various forms of PE, PET, PVC, polycarbonate and a number of plastic products.

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> UBM's BioLIVE Event to Introduce Global Biopharma Country Ranking

Events firm UBM’s bioprocessing and manufacturing expo, bioLIVE, which will debut this October alongside CPhI Worldwide trade fair in Madrid, is introducing a biologics manufacturing and processing league table, which will rank the perception of the world’s largest biologics markets for ‘overall quality’, ‘growth potential’ [for exports and domestic market], ‘innovation’ and ‘ability to meet future capacity constraints’.

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