Also featured in this week’s trade roundup:* US vs. India, South Africa over waivers for vaccine production;* Calls for US to help India overcome its pandemic surge;* Australia security conflict with China over Victoria;* New Zealand retreat from Five Eyes solidarity;* Europe’s carbon tax;* Biden’s Climate Summit fiasco;* Canada’s planned Digital Services Tax;* Administration restoration […]
Commerce Secretary nomination rounds out Biden trade team
Commerce to get moderate Democrat Gina Raimondo as head. Trump admin pulls back on digital services tax retaliation but may rush, despite business opposition, last minute sanctions on Vietnam. China tech sanctions are levied by administration but NYSE fumbles. India is criticized at WTO for harmful tariff barriers and poor IP protection. The weekly trade […]
RCEP a minor trade win for China but India bows out
The weekly report of our trade correspondent, L.C. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership achieved a success, of sorts, at the RCEP leaders summit in Bangkok on November 5th. Fifteen of the sixteen participating countries agreed to finalize the deal and sign it next year – but India opted out. The fifteen went out of their […]
US wins largest penalty ever for EU’s WTO-illegal Airbus subsidies
Trade correspondent L.C.‘s weekly report: On October 2nd the US received official World Trade Organization authorization to impose almost $7.5 billion annually in retaliation against the European Union for its WTO-illegal subsidies to Airbus. This had been expected, though the amount was on the lower side of what had been anticipated. It was, nonetheless, by […]
Limited US trade deal with Japan but not India
Trade Correspondent L.C.’s Weekly Trade Report: As anticipated (URL), President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a limited trade agreement dealing mainly with tariffs and a second agreement on digital trade when they met in New York on September 25th. But the expectation that President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi would announce a […]
