The former Vice President Vincent Siew said on Friday Taiwan will have to pay a price if it joins the U.S.-backed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the Chinese-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the future.
China is a country that exhibits great trade surplus. This article attempts to account for the phenomenon by addressing on China's weak domestic consumption compared to its exporting power.
The article suggests how Japan achieved a trade surplus last month as exports of cars, computers and other goods grew, while imports dipped on falling oil prices. Government data released Thursday showed that the trade surplus totaled 111.5 billion yen ($903 million) in October.
This article suggets how Zambia's inflation rose to its highest in six years on Thursday as the copper producer was battered by power cuts, a falling currency and a shrinking demand for its primary import.
This article talks about the impact of the depreciation of Yuan, the currency of China. It analyzes the compound impacts of the depreciation with relation to China's position as worldwide export powerhouse.
AMMAN: The Central Syrian Bank raised on Tuesday the exchange rate on the Syrian pound and the US dollar pertaining to remittances and imported goods, in what economists described to Syria Direct as an attempt to prop up the regime's dwindling foreign currency reserves.
BY KYAW PHONE KYAW The Central Bank of Myanmar has banned hundreds of businesses from handling foreign currencies in a dramatic move it says is aimed at preventing the dollarisation of the economy. On Friday state-controlled media reported that CBM's decision to revoke foreign exchange acceptor and holding licences would go into effect October 19.
This article suggests how the Angola Central Bank has increased the amount of foreign currency available in the local exchange market in order to better respond to the demand for foreign values in the country.
this article illustrates the friction caused by Chinese government's new policy of requiring foreign computer companies to make 'backdoors' in their hardwares and softwares. The foreign companies are protesting that such measure is protectionism.
Dairy farmers from around Ottawa took their cows and tractors to Parliament Hill this week, to protest the changes they expect in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
This article discusses New Zealand honey and how there is an increasingly global demand for manuka honey. This results in "a variety of honey products from different parts of the world claiming to be manuka honey". Now protectionist measurements are asked for in order to protect the local honey.
With China possibly given the status of a "market economy" the effectiveness of tariffs against chinese imports will be strongly diminished. This could result in EU economies being exposed to "dumping" policies by the chinese in order to weaken the competitive ability of domestic producers.
This article discusses how emerging markets' blatant usage of protectionism, like that of Brazil raising tariffs on 100 sectors last October (2013) to defend is declining industrial base, is a threat to free trade and WTO's views on the matter.
The Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, KY offers local news coverage online. Serving Fayette, Bourbon, Franklin, Clark, Madison, Jessamine, Woodford and Scott counties in Kentucky, Kentucky.com offers local breaking, weather and crime news.
This article is about Japan's policy to impose a quota on US rice. US-produced rice is known for its exceedingly cheap price, and Japan is imposing quota to protect its domestic producers from the competition.
A fin whale being brought onto land. Photo: Árni Sæberg Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf. has caught its full annual quota of fin whales for the first time ever since the quota system was put in place. The hunting season drew to a close yesterday.
Yo, this diigo group belongs to our former teacher. The newbie has no access I suppose, cause he created his own account when started the course this year.
This article talks about Dairy farmers in Ottawa, Canada. They protested against upcoming concessions (lower tarrifs) for the import of Diary, which would allow Canadians to buy more foreign cheese than they can now. However, that would mean that the local diary farmers sell less cheese.
The Solar Trade Association has claimed that as many as 27,000 jobs could be lost if the government presses ahead with plans to cut the feed-in tariff by 87% after commissioning analysis by TBR Economic Research.
TOKYO -- Thanks to the efforts of strawberry growers, scallop catchers and others to promote their wares overseas, Japanese exports of fresh food have grown by leaps and bounds, especially in Asia. Japan's January-July exports of farm produce jumped 40% from the year-earlier period to around 18 billion yen ($148 million), according to the agriculture ministry.
