The U.S. Senate confirmed on June 27 Christopher R. Wall's nomination to Commerce Department assistant secretary for export administration. In this position, Wall will serve as the principal advisor to the Commerce undersecretary on dual-use export control policy, or licensing rules for exports that have both commercial and military applications. ...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged at the Common Market of the South ( Mercosur) Summit Tuesday to investigate and study the food and energy markets. Da Silva asked what is true behind those speculations? The prices for the future also mark the prices, for example, the price the soya has today, and he affirmed that in his country h...
Jordan and the United States last week formally agreed to harmonize their industry partnership programs for cargo security during the World Customs Organization's annual Council meeting in Brussels, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The mutual arrangement means U.S. Customs will recognize Jordan Customs' Golden List program as compatible with i...
Foreign ministers of Uruguay and Venezuela agreed Tuesday to boost bilateral trade during a Mercosur trade bloc summit in Tucuman, Argentina. Uruguayan Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro agreed there was a will for a work meeting to take place soon in Montevideo to deepen bilateral contact, according to a ...
China's manufacturing expanded in June at the slowest pace in almost three years as growth in export orders weakened for the third month, a survey of purchasing managers showed. The Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 52 from 53.3 in May, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said on Tuesday in an e-mailed statement. That's the lowest since A...
Arrangements will be made on July 1 to facilitate local farms sending chickens to the wholesale market, a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said on Monday. Supply of live chickens in retail outlets will resume on July 2. Following the thorough cleaning in the wholesale market, local farmers will be allowed to ...
China Life Property & Casualty Insurance Company Ltd will bring in international strategic investors this year after boosting its registered capital from 1 billion to 4 billion yuan, the company's president said yesterday. We've contacted a number of the world's leading insurance and reinsurance companies and are working on the framework of stake coope...
Representatives of major transpacific liner carriers met with U.S. exporters earlier this week to discuss the dilemma many are faced with getting their products to market because of a lack of capacity on containerships. Ron Widdows, chief executive officer of APL, and chairman of the Westbound Transportation Stabilization Agreement (WTSA), said he wa...
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