International Trade

Iran snubs Biden in seeking end to sanctions before talks

Bloomberg | February 19, 2021 | International Trade

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Biden to ditch ‘America First’ in appeal for global partnership

Bloomberg | February 19, 2021 | International Trade

President Joe Biden will re-introduce himself and the U.S. to world leaders at a pair of international conferences on Friday, calling on industrialized democracies to partner in confronting the pandemic and climate change in a sharp departure from his predecessor’s foreign policy.

Brexit supply chain friction persists in blow to manufacturing

Bloomberg | February 19, 2021 | International Trade

US expected to leave Germans out of next Nord Stream sanctions

Bloomberg | February 18, 2021 | International Trade

U.K. to join France in push to supply vaccines to poorer nations

Bloomberg | February 18, 2021 | International Trade

USDA says 2021 farm exports to China will touch record high

Bloomberg | February 18, 2021 | International Trade | Commodity

Texas’ gas-export clampdown shocks market as blackouts ebb

Energy

Bloomberg | Top Story | February 18, 2021

Texas’ gas-export clampdown shocks market as blackouts ebb

Texas is restricting the flow of natural gas across state lines in an extraordinary move that some are calling a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause.

EU poised to sanction Russia over jailing of Navalny

Bloomberg | February 18, 2021 | International Trade

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China decoupling would cost US billions, Chamber says

Bloomberg | February 18, 2021 | International Trade

American companies would lose hundreds of billions of dollars if they slashed investment in China or the nations increased tariffs, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in a report highlighting the cost of a full decoupling of the world’s largest economies.

Brexit negotiator Frost joins Johnson’s team with EU focus

Bloomberg | February 17, 2021 | International Trade

Emanuel, Burns seen as potential China envoy

Bloomberg | February 17, 2021 | International Trade

US homebuilders urge Biden to help ease sky-high lumber costs

International Trade

Bloomberg | Top Story | February 17, 2021

US homebuilders urge Biden to help ease sky-high lumber costs

The biggest U.S. homebuilders group urged the Biden administration to help increase lumber supply, saying record-high costs threaten to price potential home buyers out of the market and curb construction.

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Cold snap deep in Texas almost certainly means crop losses for citrus growers

AJOT | February 17, 2021 | International Trade | Commodity

Crop losses that are suffered will come after a weather disaster took a $100 million bite out of the state’s citrus industry last July. The industry was hit hard by Hurricane Hanna, which was the first hurricane of a hyperactive 2020 season and made landfall in late July near Port Mansfield, Texas.