While British lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg heaped negativity on British Prime Minister’s Brexit plan, the only alternative he cited was a no-deal exit whose economic consequences he failed to spell out. Britain’s Eurosceptic lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said, neither the European Union… Read More ›
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China to cut import tariffs on wide range of products
Faced with an escalating trade war with its biggest trading partner, the United States, these steps are aimed at boosting its competitiveness. According to a statement from China’s ministry of finance, Beijing will slash import duties on products, including textiles… Read More ›
China widens income tax exemptions for foreign firms
While this exemption was available to foreign firms earlier, it focused on only on specific sectors. With this strategic move, Beijing has covered all sectors, other than the prohibited ones, and to top it has made the provision applicable retrospectively… Read More ›
Trump to sign USMCA in November
The new trade deal will be called United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). According to a senior U.S. official, the United States intends to sign a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada at the end of November 2018. The signing will… Read More ›
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority to probe super complaint against consumers ‘rip off’
Britain’s Citizens Advice has lodged a super complaint against the country’s financial and telecom providers saying existing customers were being overcharged yearly to the tune of $5.2 billion. Following a complaint by Britain’s consumer body Citizens Advice that customers who… Read More ›
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission files lawsuit against Tesla’s CEO
The highly unusual lawsuit is potentially aimed at gaining leverage so as to force Tesla Inc’s CEO Elon Musk to settle. According to Teresa Goody, CEO of law firm Goody Counsel, who is also a former SEC attorney, most such… Read More ›
Australian Study Uses Mango Peel To Eliminate Soil & Water Contamination From Oil Spills
A recent Australian study has found that one of the useful and environment friendly methods to clean up any form of oil spills in the world is making use of mango peels. This conclusion was arrived at in a study… Read More ›
Cost of food and drink likely to shoot up significantly in case of a no-deal Brexit
Consider this snapshot: last year the UK imported food and drink worth 48 billion pounds, 71% of which were not subject to tariffs. As per the results of a study commission by Barclays that was released on Thursday, food suppliers… Read More ›
German institutes warn of major recession in EU and Germany if trade conflict with the U.S. escalates
Germany, the EU’s biggest economy, thrives on its exports of cars to the U.S. EU’s retaliatory measures could also significant slow down the U.S. economy if not trigger a major recession there. On Thursday, leading economic institutes from Germany disclosed,… Read More ›
Become more competitive before talking of selling stake: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire
Bruno Le Maire’s comments come in the wake of Air France-KLM’s Canadian boss telling Air France’s labour unions that they should not depend on the state to bail them out and that the government was prepared to offload its stake… Read More ›