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Montevideo, January 10th 2025 - 23:04 UTC

Tag: China

  • Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

    Chinese economy expands at an annual rate of 6.8% in the first quarter, says Beijing

    The growth figures come amid concerns about China's outlook for exports which has been clouded by rising tensions with the US, its largest trading partner.

    China's economy grew at an annual pace of 6.8% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, according to official data, beating forecasts for the period. The growth figures for January to March were also above Beijing's 2018 annual growth target of “around 6.5%”

  • Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

    China opens its car manufacturing and market to foreign ownership

    China will remove foreign ownership caps for companies making electric and hybrid cars in 2018, commercial vehicles in 2020 and the wider market by 2022.

    China will allow full foreign ownership of car firms by 2022 in a move that could open up the world's biggest car market. The plans will change rules that require global carmakers to work through state-owned partners. The US says this forces them to share technology with potential competitors.

  • Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

    China's Xi considers lowering import tariffs and duties

    Xi's address at the Boao Forum for Asia, (“Asian Davos”) — comes amid escalating trade tensions between China and the U.S.

    Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed plans to further open up the Chinese economy during a Tuesday address. Those measures included “significantly” lowering import tariffs for autos, decreasing duties on other products, enforcing the legal intellectual property of foreign firms and improving the investment environment for international companies.

  • Friday, April 6th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

    Trump will take his confrontation with China to the Summit of the Americas

    Trump is expected to argue that China’s trade policies had “not been productive for the hemisphere and that the United States should remain the partner of choice”

    United States President Donald Trump, engaged in an escalating confrontation with Beijing over trade, will urge Latin American leaders next week to work with the United States – not China – on trade, a senior US official said on Thursday. Trump’s trip to Lima, Peru, for the Summit of the Americas has been prefaced by aggressive moves on trade and immigration.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:48 UTC

    Brazil subsidized loans for the 2018/19 agriculture program will reach US$ 58bn

    The government’s farm program offers subsidized loans to finance agricultural commodities and make investments such as in silos and agricultural machinery.

    Brazil's Agriculture Ministry plans to increase funds available to finance the farm sector, an official announced, noting that a decline in inflation has allowed the government to boost funding in a country that is the world’s largest exporter of staples like soybeans and coffee.

  • Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:50 UTC

    China preparing to begin paying for imported oil with the Yuan

    Oil is the world's most traded commodity, with an annual trade value of around US$14 trillion, roughly equivalent to China's gross domestic product last year.

    China is taking its first steps towards paying for imported crude oil in Yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, according to Reuters, a key development in Beijing's efforts to establish its currency internationally.

  • Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:39 UTC

    Trade war: China slaps higher tariffs on US pork, wine and certain fruits

    Eight products, including pork, will now be subject to additional tariffs of 25%, it said, with the measures effective from April 2.

    China has slapped extra tariffs of up to 25% on 128 U.S. products including frozen pork, as well as on wine and certain fruits and nuts, in response to U.S. duties on imports of aluminum and steel, China’s finance ministry said. The tariffs, to take effect on Monday, were released late on Sunday and matches a list of potential tariffs on up to US$3 billion in U.S. goods published by China on March 23.

  • Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:35 UTC

    Chinese space station remains dumps into the South Pacific

    China had said its re-entry would occur in late 2017 but that process was delayed, leading some experts to suggest the space laboratory was out of control.

    China's Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said. The craft re-entered the atmosphere around 8:15 a.m. Beijing time (0015GMT) and the “vast majority” of it had burnt up upon re-entry, the authority said in a brief statement on its website.

  • Tuesday, March 27th 2018 - 09:42 UTC

    The World's Biggest Investors Have Lost $436 Billion In 2018

    The Dow has lost nearly 1,200 points in three days, and over 424 points on Friday alone

    Wall Street is shocked, but it shouldn't be: Tariffs targeting China should have been a given, and now the market's tanking on trade war fears as if it just crept up on everyone, but Trump's been very clear on this.

  • Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 09:13 UTC

    China announces US$ 3bn target for retaliation in trade dispute with Washington

    China's proposed tariff hikes appeared to be aimed at increasing domestic U.S. pressure on Trump by including farm areas that voted for the president in 2016

    China announced a US$ 3 billion list of U.S. goods including pork, apples and steel pipe on Friday that it said may be hit with higher tariffs in a spiraling trade dispute with President Donald Trump that companies and investors worry could depress global commerce. The Commerce Ministry urged Washington to negotiate a prompt settlement to the conflict over Trump's tariff hike on steel and aluminum but set no deadline.