But but but … let’s say the elephants did end up in Germany — which originally triggered Botswana’s ire by moving to bring in a ban on trophy-hunting imports, thereby nullifying a popular population-reduction method — where would be the ideal spot for them to live? We asked an expert, Nuremberg Zoo director Dag Encke, … Read more
Rutte is visiting China with the country’s Foreign Trade minister, Geoffrey van Leeuwen. The trip comes after a year in which the Netherlands decided, under pressure from the United States, to restrict some of the export of advanced chip printing machines by Dutch chips champion ASML to China. ASML estimates that the impact of the … Read more
I’m Chris Anstey, a senior editor for economics in Boston, and today we’re looking at the reshaping of US trade patterns. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net or get in touch on X via @economics. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here. US trade with … Read more
Indian stock market: The Indian stock market indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, are expected to open on a cautious note on Tuesday amid mixed global market cues. Asian markets traded lower while the European stock and bond markets declined. The US stock market was shut on Monday. The domestic equity indices hit a record high … Read more
For the first time, China exported more to Southeast Asia than the US last year, highlighting the realignment of global trade that’s happening as the economic relationship frays between Washington and Beijing. The 10 nations in Asean bought $524 billion of goods last year, higher than the $500 billion worth sold to the US or … Read more
Beginning January 8, Today in Energy will encompass a broader range of analysis. Pieces previously published as This Week in Petroleum, the Electricity Monthly Update, and the Natural Gas Weekly Update’s In the News will now fall under Today in Energy. We consolidated these products to provide timely analysis on a variety of fuels … Read more
Vast heaps of crushed brown rock hem the Indian Ocean at Western Australia’s Parker Point port — each a stockpile of 200,000 tons of iron ore, ready to be poured into a procession of bulk carriers bound for Asia’s steel mills. Rio Tinto Group, the world’s largest iron ore producer, shipped its first cargo of … Read more
Warsaw has stopped supplying weapons to Kyiv and is focusing on arming itself instead, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday, amid a dispute over Ukraine’s agricultural exports. “We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons,” Morawiecki said in an appearance on Polish television channel … Read more
Is there any point in filing trade disputes against China at the World Trade Organization? For the US, the answer appears to be no, thanks to what Washington perceives as an unfair dispute-settlement system that’s also expensive, takes too long and doesn’t effectively change behavior in Beijing. Source link
The issue has also come up in meetings between US and Indian officials after American companies including Apple, Dell, and HP urged the US government to ask New Delhi to reconsider its policy. Last month, it was a key point of discussion during the trade ministerial meeting between the two countries. With New Delhi set … Read more