China reduces import duties on 859 types of products, including pork and parts for smartphones. The lower import barriers will start on January 1. Imports of the chosen goods last year were worth around $ 389 billion, Bloomberg news agency calculated.
China has published a list of chemicals produced in the United States that will be exempt from trade tariffs. The announcement follows less than a week after the agreement between Beijing and Washington to ease the tension between the economic superpowers. This concerns certain types of industrial glue and adhesives, industrial polymers and types of paraffin, which can be found …
Google Internet giant has settled a tax avoidance case in Australia. The American company makes an additional payment of 481.5 million Australian dollars, just under 300 million euros, to the Australian Tax Office (ATO).
The US special envoy for North Korea calls on Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table. He thereby responds to earlier threats from the nuclear power. “We are here and you know how you can reach us. Let’s get things done. ”
The European government leaders have agreed that the EU must be climate neutral by 2050. Only Poland, which is highly dependent on coal-fired power stations for electricity, is not yet participating.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky have closed a truce. The violence in Eastern Ukraine must end by the end of the year. They agreed on this during a summit meeting in France.
34-year-old Sanna Marin will almost certainly be Finland’s new prime minister. The current minister of Transport was appointed by the coalition as a candidate on Sunday. Parliament still has to approve the nomination of the social democrat.
Allowing cats to go outside uncontrollably is illegal. That is the opinion of lawyers Arie Trouwborst and Han Somsen of Tilburg University. They base themselves on European rules for nature protection.
Kenes Rakishev was elected Advisor for Investments to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan on June 27, 2019. Affirmed by Acting Foreign Minister Shakhrat Nuryshev, the appointment reflects Mr. Rakishev’s substantial contributions to building Kazakhstan’s economic potential.
More than six hundred activists who have occupied the Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong in recent days, surrendered to the police on Tuesday. A small group of a hundred activists have stayed behind on the campus, says Hong Kong’s senior director Carrie Lam.
