International Trade

China buys fewer chip-making machines as US restrictions start

Bloomberg | November 23, 2022 | International Trade

Violent protests erupt at Apple’s main iPhone plant in China

Bloomberg | November 23, 2022 | International Trade

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Dutch resist US call to ban more chip equipment sales to China

Bloomberg | November 23, 2022 | International Trade

The Netherlands will defend its economic interests when it comes to the sales of chip equipment to China, a senior Dutch official said, further evidence of the country’s resistance to meekly following Washington’s attempts to cut off China from semiconductor technology.

Japan’s Diet approves the revised beef safeguard mechanism under the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement

AJOT | November 23, 2022 | International Trade

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California’s lost rain and snow cuts deep into US food basket

Bloomberg | November 23, 2022 | International Trade

California has lost out on a full year’s worth of rain and snow since 2020, according to a state-funded study, leaving the most farmland idle in recent memory across a region that supplies a quarter of US fresh food.

UK’s Hunt says he wants to keep Johnson’s EU trade deal

Bloomberg | November 23, 2022 | International Trade

Venezuela to restart opposition talks, hoping US eases sanctions

Bloomberg | November 23, 2022 | Energy | International Trade | Commodity

US business equipment orders rebounded sharply in October

Bloomberg | November 23, 2022 | International Trade

Mexico signals it may allow exceptions to US corn-import ban

International Trade

Bloomberg | Top Story | November 22, 2022

Mexico signals it may allow exceptions to US corn-import ban

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signaled he’s softening his stance on a planned ban of a type of US corn amid pressure from the US government.