All the global automakers are facing potential shocks if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on threats to raise or impose tariffs on imports of foreign products, even from allies like Japan and neighboring countries like Canada and Mexico. Nissan is among the major car companies that have...
Across the world, countries are putting controls on exports of goods sent to Russia. If Taiwan stops exporting semiconductors, this could "choke Russian industry", Mr Whitten says. What are other countries doing? India, China and Pakistan are notably absent from the...
The first logic: The United States does not hesitate to abandon friends and allies abruptly; therefore, East Asian states should rethink allying with the United States, lest face the same fate as Afghanistan. East Asian countries, especially Taiwan, cannot rely upon U.S. security guarantees. ...
bombing of several Iraqi military installations (code-namedOperation Desert Fox). After the bombing, however, Iraq refused to allow inspectors to reenter the country, and during the next several years theeconomic sanctionsslowly began to erode as neighboring countries sought to reopen trade with Iraq...
Our connections are all in the UK, and they each have their own goals, constraints and focuses. Rachel: it can be helpful to bring in the international angle: for example the Council of Europe has an oversight group that looks at the laws of all countries that have ratified Tromsø. ...
Local government in England has limited revenue-raising powers compared to other wealthy countries. In 2018, every other G7 nation collected more taxes at either a local or regional level.1 7% of the UK’s taxes were collected, or intended to be collected, locally in 2014, compared to 12%...
Natural gas pipelines are the main source of your power and your wealth and most critically, your leverage over other countries. Europe needs your energy now more than ever with winter approaching. If you can't deliver that energy, then countries like Germany have no need to pay attention to...
Countries fitting that bill are Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. Part 746 of the EAR describes embargoed destinations and refers to certain additional controls imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department. The Shipping Solutions Professional export documentation...
“First world” is a problematic term because it is outdated. First coined during the Cold War, it referred to countries that were allies of the United States—mostly other westernized countries, as opposed to countries that aligned with the former Soviet Union. Because the economic indicators us...
5. Sudden-stop crises: These occur because of sudden reversals in capital flows, typically triggered by sharp increases in global interest rates. These crises, then, are externally driven. Countries heavily reliant on commodity exports, like oil or metals, can see their currencies plummet if globa...