Rubber may move from raw material category to agri-crop
Amidst plunging prices of RSS-4 this week, jubilation time has come for about eight lakh rubber growers in the country.

Japanese traders forecast aluminium supply deficit
A major Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co Ltd, forecast a global aluminium supply deficit of about 300,000 tonne for the calendar 2001, greater than a 140,000 tonne deficit estimated for 2000.

EOD makers in a fix as high prices mar export chances
Despite export potential of the EOD and surplus capacity, domestic manufacturers are not in position to export the same in the neighboring countries.


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