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WHILE global politics, whether through the protectionism of Donald Trump, or the uncertainty of Brexit, have the potential to chill the global minerals industry, a recent major conference in Canada showed that market demand can often outweigh concerns about regulation.

A noticeably more positive outlook was evident this year, as the global mining community gathered in Toronto for the 2018 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, trade show and investors exchange.…

WHILE United States President Donald Trump’s imposition of import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium on March 8 included a waiver for Canadian and Mexican exporters, his administration continues to stress this relief could be temporary.

In the March 8 presidential proclamation imposing the steel duties, Trump stressed “ongoing discussions with these countries” alongside his decision “to exempt steel articles imports from these countries from the tariff, at least at this time”. …

PRESIDENT Donald Trump today (March 5) signalled to Canada and Mexico that he would use his planned imposition of import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium as a bargaining chip to wring concessions in the ongoing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation.…

Representatives of the USA beef industry are voicing consternation over the Chinese government’s announcement that the country is preparing retaliatory sanctions against beef exports as part of its escalating trade war with the United States.

Kent Bacus, director of international trade and market access for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (USA), followed up the April 4 Chinese announcement of a potential 25% tariff on USA beef exports with an immediate statement of concern.…

THE UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to regain GBP4.4 million (USD6.2 million) in a corruption case where Canada’s Griffiths Energy bribed Chadian diplomats in the United States and Canada with discounted shares deals and “consultancy fees”.

Griffiths used a front company ‘Chad Oil’ set up in September 2009, just five days before agreements were signed, the SFO said.…

A KEY Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) conference on fighting graft has heard how auditors can play a key role in promoting honesty in local government.

Speaking to Accounting & Business at the 2018 OECD Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum, in Paris, on March 27, Richard Chambers, President and CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), said: “There are inherent risks involving local government where you often have less oversight and where you have officials or individuals who have motives to benefit from positions of authority.”…

IF there is one issue that is a key focus of the north American nonwovens sector this year, it has to be the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the USA, Canada and Mexico.

Tri-lateral talks have now reached their eighth round, with an objective of achieving a new deal by this summer, although observers believe this timescale might slip.…

INDUSTRIAL minerals companies need to better manage their communications in an increasingly interconnected world, the CEO of Brazil-based Nexa Resources S.A. told this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention.

In comments echoed by Canadian colleagues, Tito Martins, said he felt that the industry must change the way it engages with an expanding number of potential partners, from local communities and environmentalists, as well as regulators and financiers.…

THE CIVIL aviation industry – for very good safety reasons – is one of the most regulated industries in the world. And suppliers of aviation textiles have to take note. Regulations spring from the Convention on International Civil Aviation, whose annex 8 covers the airworthiness of aircraft.…

Australia has today (January 16) requested formal talks with Canada at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where it will pressure the Canadian government to liberalise wine trading restrictions in four of Canada’ provinces. These are British Columbia (BC), Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.…