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New shipping opportunities

11

Apr 2014


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New shipping opportunities

Senior government officials from Japan and Norway believe that developing environmental solutions is set to be a new growth area for the marine and shipping industries. In a message to the opening ceremony of Sea Japan 2014 in Tokyo on Wednesday, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said he had high hopes that the marine resource management market would become a new growth area. Other Japanese government officials underscored the view that the green revolution in shipping provided business...

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International Trade Priority In Canada

24

Feb 2014


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International Trade Priority In Canada

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS Canada imposes economic sanctions against a number of countries pursuant to the Special Economic Measures Act and the United Nations Act. In Budget 2014, the federal government has acknowledged that the due diligence requirements under Canada's economic sanctions place a significant burden on the private sector. For example, existing sanctions strictly regulate interactions with designated individuals and entities, whose names are contained in 19 separate lists located on f...

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Things To Know About The TPP

30

Dec 2013


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Things To Know About The TPP

The three-year-old Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, now involving 12 nations, are aimed at lowering trade barriers across a wide range of sectors in 12 Pacific Rim counties that would stretch from U.S. to New Zealand and from Japan to Chile. TPP, arguably the most important trade agreement in a generation, emerged following nearly a decade of disappointment in trade talks. The World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round of talks first collapsed in 2003 and effectively died with th...

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Direct Use of Yuan and Yen

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Jan 2012


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Direct Use of Yuan and Yen

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told visiting Japanese Prime Minster Yoshihiko Noda that China is willing to work with Japan in promoting the direct use of their respective currencies in bilateral trade.   China's central bank announced shortly after the Wen-Noda talks to encourage the direct use of Chinese currency RMB, or the yuan, and Japanese yen in cross-border transactions between China and Japan.   The agreement is expected to give the Chinese yuan a more powerful role in...

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