From today for 15 countries, where the contagion curve is very low, there is freedom of movement across the border without having to observe the 14-day quarantine. Italy has decided to opt for the line of prudence. In the list of non-Shenghen countries that will have to observe the quarantine period there is also Japan [...]
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“The work done in recent months has paid off. The Italian agri-food sector does not appear on the recently published American USSR list of products subject to duties. We averted the risk that our excellence would suffer irreparable damage. In the meeting I had with the US Secretary of Agriculture Perdue on January 30th, I reiterated it in clear words: [...]
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MIPAAF, Bellanova a Perdue: duties are not the answer that citizens expect from the United States and the EU. To grow, agri-food needs certain rules "In order to grow and face the new global challenges in terms of innovation, sustainability, food quality and safety, the fight against waste, the agri-food sector needs [...]
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Trump does not mince words and speaks of a phenomenal understanding: "Buy new tractors, a great season for business is coming". The Chinese will buy $ 197 billion worth of American goods over the next two years and the US pledges to buy $ 156 billion worth of Chinese goods. The dead line of 19 [...]
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Deputy Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen announced yesterday that China and the United States have reached an agreement to close the so-called "Phase One" of trade negotiations. Existing duties of 23% on 230 billion Chinese exports will remain in force and duties on the other 7,3 billion will be reduced to approximately 120%. [...]
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In these days in London the NATO summit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing that sanctioned the constitution. A summit that promised to be red-hot due to the recent utterances of French President Macron: "NATO is in a kind of brain death" and due to the fierce attitude of Donald Trump who [...]
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Damage to the Italian agricultural sector caused by the spread of the Asian bedbug and damage to the Italian agri-food industry resulting from duties: these, among others, were the issues that on the Italian proposal were discussed in the Council of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers meeting in Luxembourg. The Asian bedbug, it was reiterated, has mainly affected the Regions of Northern Italy, [...]
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“A very firm response from Europe is urgently needed to protect our excellence and our exports to the American market. A risk worth 500 million euros that would have a falling impact on supply chains and entire territories of our country. There is not a minute to lose. The work of diplomacy must be strengthened but at the same time [...]
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Ambriola Co Inc's gigantic warehouse in West Caldwell, New Jersey is chock full of hard cheese boxes and forms like Parmigiano Reggiano, Pecorino Romano, and Grana Padano - and more is coming. Phil Marfuggi, president and CEO of Ambriola, a rib of Auricchio SpA, one [...]
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The United States will not impose new tariffs on goods imported from China, Donald Trump said at the G20 in Osaka, on the sidelines of the meeting with Xi Jinping. “For the foreseeable future we will not impose any more tariffs on China. We will work together with China. They will negotiate and start spending money in the US, ”the American tycoon told reporters. [...]
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“It is an important result that recognizes to our country the economic damage caused by zero-duty imports from Cambodia and Burma and also the great work we are carrying out in support of a sector that has been penalized for too long. We have lost over 50% of the area invested for cultivation. Not […]
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The new global challenges for Piedmontese companies in the SACE 2018 Export Report At the center of the conference organized by SACE SIMEST and Intesa Sanpaolo, the point of view of companies: Sanlorenzo Yacht, Asja Ambiente Italia, Mecaer Aviation Group While the latest rounds of duties strengthen US-China tensions, fears of a trade war jump [...]
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The tension on tariffs between China and America does not decrease. According to an important economic newspaper, Donal Trump will announce in the coming days a new wave of tariffs to hit the import of Chinese products worth around 200 billion dollars. The tariffs will probably be around 10%, below [...]
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(Giovanni Bozzetti Ambienthesis spa) From January 1, 2018, new environmental standards have come into force, established by Beijing, which introduce stricter rules on the standards of recyclable waste that will from now on be imported into China. Post-consumer plastics, PET from bottles, bags, PVC from shampoo bottles and [...]
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The United States will not lift tariffs on steel from Turkey even if Ankara intends to free the US pastor, accused of conspiracy and terrorism during the failed 2016 coup. to support the revival of the Turkish lira. The position of [...]
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The distance confrontation between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyp Erdogan is getting harder. In fact, the Turkish president, ignoring the suggestions of Tusiad, the Turkish Confindustria, which invited him to lower the tone of the clash with Washington and to raise interest rates to curb the devaluation of the lira, signed the [...]
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Giuseppe Conte tries to consolidate bilateral relations with the United States after the signs of appreciation received by Trump at the beginning of last June during the meeting of the NATO countries. After signing the Guest Book in the Roosevelt Room, the two leaders move to the oval room to start the private talks, where they are met [...]
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From this night the new European Union duty policy on some of the best known products of the United States began. The tariffs, according to the official EU bulletin, will further fuel jitters on global stock markets which are already alarmed by trade tensions between the US and China. Customs agents in all [...]
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The tariff war between the US and China does not stop and, on the contrary, risks opening new worrying scenarios in the trade of some agri-food products. According to what was announced by Coldiretti, "the prices of corn and soy intended mainly for animal feed on the Chicago commodity exchange, the main world reference point, collapse with the spread [...]
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Chinese media reacted strongly after the administration of US President Donald Trump said it would impose sanctions on $ 50 billion worth of Chinese imports, but some comments leave room for further negotiations. On Friday, China said it would impose an additional 25% tax on 659 goods imported from [...]
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“We have already reiterated in Brussels our no to the extension of zero-duty imports of oil from Tunisia. If the Commission is deciding to do this, it is a good thing for us. We will monitor. Italy wants to protect the quality of its product, tracked and safe. Already in the next few days I will activate with our organs of [...]
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China announced, following a high-level meeting with US trade officials on Sunday, that the talks will have no effect if Washington goes ahead and enacts tariffs on Chinese imports. The statement came an hour after a meeting between US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross […]
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The Trump administration prepares to make America's power grid safer by supporting nuclear and coal plants. The White House said: “Unfortunately, the imminent closure of some power plants that can operate continuously will lead to the rapid decline of a significant part of the diversification of our energy supply and undermine the resilience […]
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The French Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, in a joint communication made with his German counterpart Peter Altmeier, declared that Europe will be "totally united, firm and determined" in the face of the possible imposition of duties on steel and aluminum by US President Donald Trump. "We will not accept that Europe can be hit by tariffs on steel and aluminum", [...]
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Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Friday heavily criticized the US administration's growing trade protectionist measures warning that they could lead to "regression, war and conflict." "A global trade war and growing protectionism are the last thing the world needs now," Solberg told the annual national conference of [...]
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Tomorrow, international stock exchanges will have to pass an important exam in anticipation of the close of the first quarter. Trump's $ 60 billion trade tariffs and Facebook affair will continue to create the turmoil that affected world markets last week. Wall Street on Friday closed, in fact, in [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Last week, at the end of the management meeting, the ECB removed from the press release at the end of the summit the formula introduced two years ago and which left the door open to a new increase in QE in terms of size and / or duration if financial conditions had become less favorable. Draghi however [...]
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Donald Trump proceeds like a train on tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and begins to dictate American conditions to global markets and Europe in particular. The occasion was a rally in support of a Republican candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania. In addition to announcing that its slogan for the 2020 presidential elections [...]
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Despite warnings from US trading partners, Donald Trump has formalized his decision to impose import taxes of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. With the signing of the two decrees, Trump imposes import duties on steel and aluminum "pardoning", however, the main US allies. The new duties will be effective in 15 days [...]
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