International Trade

Bloomberg | October 16, 2020

China set to pass law protecting vital tech from US

China is set to pass a new law that would restrict sensitive exports vital to national security, expanding its toolkit of policy options as competition grows with the U.S. over access to technologies that will drive the modern economy.

Bolsonaro weighs Huawei ban from 5G network, cabinet member says

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020 | International Trade

International Trade

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020

Hong Kong denounces US ‘Made in China’ label demand to WTO

Hong Kong demanded the U.S. withdraw its pending regulation to label goods manufactured in the city as ‘Made in China,’ expressing its “strong objection” to the requirement at a meeting of the World Trade Organization.

International Trade

AJOT Newsroom | October 15, 2020

Secretary Ross highlights commerce actions supporting strategy for critical and emerging technologies

In support of the National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said the Department is fully behind the President’s strategy and has already implemented a number of export controls on emerging technologies. Earlier this month, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in Commerce imposed controls on six more emerging technologies, bringing the total to 37.

Brexit talks on a knife edge as EU leaders start summit

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020 | International Trade

Virus disrupts crunch Brexit summit as EU head leaves to isolate

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020 | International Trade

EU sanctions six Putin allies over the poisoning of Navalny

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020 | International Trade

Hundreds of trucks parked at borders stall African trade pact

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020 | Intermodal | International Trade | Trucking

Hundreds of trucks have been parked at Benin’s border for more than a year since its eastern neighbor Nigeria abruptly curbed imports. To the west of Benin, officials in Ghana’s capital have shut Nigerian-owned stores to comply with a law that curbs foreign participation in its retail trade.

Germany presses France over fishing ahead of Brexit summit

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020 | International Trade

Trudeau riles China 50 years after his father forged ties

Bloomberg | October 15, 2020 | International Trade

Huawei besieged on new European front after US targets cloud

Bloomberg | October 14, 2020 | International Trade

Huawei Technologies Co., already getting squeezed out of Europe’s vast market for the next generation of telecom equipment, is under siege in another fast-growing business: cloud computing.