International

• Friday, April 24th 2020 - 07:08 UTC

  Indonesia opens market for beef imports from Argentina and Brazil

  

  Indonesia has issued permits to import 20,000 tons of beef from Brazil or Argentina, the Trade Ministry’s director-general of domestic trade, Suhanto, told parliament on Thursday

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 10:55 UTC

  China pork imports expected to reach 2.8 million tons this year

  

  China expects to import more soy and pork this year to supply domestic demand, after the coronavirus pandemic and the impacts of swine fever decimated its pig herds. Meanwhile, soy imports are estimated to reach 92.48 million tons this year.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 10:52 UTC

  Brazil orange juice 2019/20 harvest exports increased 18% in volume and 6% in value

  

  Total Brazilian orange juice exports (FCOJ Equivalent to 66º Brix) registered an 18% increase in the first nine months of the 2019/20 harvest compared to the same period in the previous harvest. A total of 861,700 tons were shipped during the period, compared to 732,048 tons during the same period of the 2018/19 harvest. Revenues increased 6% to a total of US$1.445 billion compared to US$1.369 billion in the previous harvest.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 09:06 UTC

  Pompeo pressing China to allow inspections of sensitive laboratories

  

  United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday pressed China to allow inspectors into sensitive laboratories, voicing concern about their security amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  WHO warns, “Make no mistake: We have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time”

  

  World Health Organization on Wednesday warned that the coronavirus crisis would not end any time soon, with many countries only in the early stages of the fight, as the global death toll surpassed 180,000.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  UK to test 20.000 households for COVID-19 to establish how fast the disease has spread

  

  Britain's government plans to test a sample of 20,000 English households for COVID-19 in the coming weeks to try to establish how far the disease has spread across the country.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  The Short-term Liquidity Line: A New IMF Tool to Help in the Crisis

  

  By Geoffrey Okamoto – The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the global economy at every level. Across the world, financial conditions have tightened dramatically, with unprecedented portfolio outflows from emerging markets in terms of both size (a record of about US$100 billion) and speed, and markets effectively frozen in some cases. This has created sizable demand for U.S. dollar liquidity, with emerging markets facing sharp liquidity shortages.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Two New York pet cats test positive for COVID-19; no evidence of animal-human contagion

  

  Two cats in New York have become the first pets in the United States to test positive for the new coronavirus but there is no evidence pets can spread the virus to humans, according to US health authorities.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Trump allows US Navy to shoot Iranian gunboats “out of the water” if they get too close

  

  US Navy ships will shoot Iranian gunboats that get too close “out of the water,” President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after 11 vessels from Iran's elite fighting force came dangerously close to American ships in the Gulf.

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Trump orders a plan to aid US struggling oil companies with massive supply glut

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered his administration to come up with a plan to aid US oil companies struggling with a massive supply glut and record low crude prices. “We will never let the great U.S. Oil & Gas Industry down,” Trump tweeted.