Canadian exporters see a solid outlook on their sales to the United States, a survey by the Bank of Canada found. «The prospects for foreign sales, especially to the United States, are strong,» he said. Canadian exporters with positive views of sales are often linked to technology and
Imports from China grew 36% year-on-year during the first half of 2021, reported the General Administration of Customs of that country. With this, China’s imports reached 1 trillion 266,840 million dollars. The result came after the Chinese government projected last Friday that its country’s foreign trade would reach
The Extended Producer Responsibility (REP) has reduced the financial burden on municipalities, indicates a report released by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). REP is a policy approach in which producer responsibility extends to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life cycle. Thus, Extended Producer Responsibility
The USTR issued an advisory for US companies whose supply chains run through Xinjiang, China. In doing so, the USTR joined other similar announcements from the US Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security and Labor. In Xinjiang, the government of the People’s Republic of China and associated
Capital-intensive industries have more pressure to relocate (nearshoring), indicated a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Nearshoring is the practice of transferring a business operation to a nearby country, especially in preference to a more distant one. Capital-intensive industries, such as automotive and
Sempra Energy stood out as the only company in the world that made a final investment decision in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the world in 2020. Over the past year, low LNG and oil prices resulted in multiple Final Investment Decision (FID) postponements, with only one liquefaction