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  • Africa: USA-Africa - No Policy? Bad Policy? or Both?

    BOTSWANA, 2017/08/30 "Africa is terra incognita for the Trump Government: a continent it cares little - and understands even less - about. With no dyed-in-the-wool Trumpian Africa hands available, the government appears ready to cede Africa policy making to career civil servants and a few mainstream Republican appointees." - Matthew T. Page The headline to Page's article in Quartz Africa states that "Donald Trump could be getting his US-Africa policy right by simply not having one." His view is actually additional nuanced, in judging that no policy would likely be only "less bad" than explicitly "bad policy" that may result from better White Home interest in Africa.

  • 墨西哥1-7月对外贸易运行良好

    墨西哥, 2017/08/30 今年1-7月，墨货物贸易进出口总额4638.1亿美元，同比增长8.8%；其中出口2296.9亿美元，增长10.1%；进口2341.2亿美元，增长7.6%；贸易逆差44.3亿美元。同期，墨西哥进出口实现较快增长，结构进一步优化，回稳向好势头进一步巩固。     从出口商品结构看，制造业出口2045.1亿美元，增长8.9%，占比89%；石油类产品出口125.1亿美元，增长28.6%，占比5.4%；初级农产品出口96.7亿美元，增长9.2，占比4.2%；从进口商品结构看，进口中间产品占77.1%，消费品占13.2%，资本品占9.7%。

  • 尼泊尔2016/17财年进口额同比增长28%

    亚洲, 2017/08/28 2016/17财年尼货物进口额为9901亿卢比，同比增长28%。该财年尼财政预算为10480亿卢比，货物进口额几乎相当于财年全部预算额。其中，自印度进口增长32.8%，自中国进口增长10%，自其它国家进口增长26.8%。汽油、汽车及配件、水泥等产品大量依赖进口。 同期，尼货物出口额仅为731亿卢比，同比增长4.2%，其中，对印度出口增长5%，对中国出口增长1.2%，对其他国家出口增长3.3%。

  • Russia, Turkey negotiate deals worth $820 million

    RUSSIA, 2017/08/27 Russian and Turkish businesses have concluded preliminary agreements on contracts, the total worth of which is approximately $820 million. Russian Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Georgy Kalamanov announced that the details of the agreements were discussed within the framework of the 86th Izmir International equitable, Sputnik reported. The International equitable with a theme "Innovation — Energy" was held on August 18-22 with participation of additional than 45 Russian companies from different sectors of economy, inclunding energy, coal and oil production, agriculture, construction and engineering, metal working and metallurgy, and tourism, presenting their products and services.

  • Uzbekistan to remove excise tax on some imported products

    UZBEKISTAN, 2017/08/26

  • Why Mexico, Canada can discount Trump’s remarks on NAFTA?

    CANADA, 2017/08/26 Mexico and Canada may discount US President Donald Trump’s remarks about the country’s withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Russell A. Green, Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics at Rice University's Baker Institute (Houston) told Trend. "Trump’s threat to withdraw completely from NAFTA should be taken seriously. Nonetheless, there are reasons Mexico and Canada may discount his remarks. Initial, the remarks came during a political rally and may have been directed additional at supporters than the negotiations. Second, there is very little support for withdrawing from NAFTA in Congress, so Trump risks further alienating significant portions of his own party. Third, some legal scholars have offered that the president does not even have the power to do so. While foreign policy treaties like alliances may be canceled by the president autonomously, trade treaties are not the same. They fall under the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution, which stipulates that Congress has authority," the expert explained.

  • Better Uzbek-Kyrgyz relations are due to Mirziyoyev's policy

    KYRGYZSTAN, 2017/08/26 The reason for better Uzbek-Kyrgyz trade relations is Uzbekistan’s new president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, said Bruce Pannier, a Central Asia expert. “His government’s foreign policy, particularly towards immediate neighbors in Central Asia, is a drastic departure from his predecessor Islam Karimov,” Pannier told Trend.

  • Uztrade JSC creates Trading House in Delhi

    INDIA, 2017/08/26 Uztrade JSC under Uzbek Foreign Trade Ministry established a Trading Home in Delhi in order to increase the volume of export deliveries and strengthen its position on the Indian market, according to the data published on the website of Uzbek Foreign Ministry. Within the framework of Trade Home operation, a permanent exhibition-sale is being created in the form of a show room, where consumer and food products of Uzbek producers will be presented.

  • UK exports to Iran increase by 200

    IRAN, 2017/08/26 During the initial four months of the current fiscal time(March 20-July 21) the United Kingdom’s exports to Iran had registered a large rise by 200 % and stood at $432 million. The UK was the ninth top goods exporter to Iran during the period, with 2.7 % share of Iran’s in general imports, which amounted to $15.813 billion‎, according to the new statistics released by the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran. Besides UK, Germany ($864 million, 29 % increase y/y), Switzerland ($663 million, 81 % increase), France ($456 million, 51 % increase) and Italy ($420 million, 26 % increase) were the European nations that took place part the top exporters of goods to Iran, in ‎the period.‎

  • Azerbaijan, EU set to continue talks on common aviation area deal

    AZERBAIJAN, 2017/08/26 Azerbaijan and the EU plan to hold an extra round of negotiations on the Common Aviation Area Agreement, a diplomatic source told Trend. The sides are expected to coordinate the final version of the agreement during the Baku conference.
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