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METAL TRADERS OFFERED BETTER ACCESS TO SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE UNDER EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) trade deal struck with South America’s Mercosur group of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, will boost trade between the two blocs of non-ferrous metals and related articles. The agreement, which now needs to be ratified by both sides, will phase out all EU duties charged on industrial goods (including metals and metal items) over 10 years.…
REGULATORS STARTING TO ENCOURAGE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO EXPERIMENT WITH AI MONITORING OF SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTIONS
Regulators have started to actively encourage financial institutions to experiment and use machine learning to detect suspicious activity.
US regulatory authorities have called for innovative approaches to meet AML compliance obligations “to further strengthen the financial system against illicit activity”.
In a joint statement, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; USA FIU the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN); the National Credit Union Administration, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced their support for innovative technology development last December.…
TUNISIA UNDERPINS SUCCESS AS DENIM OUTSOURCER THOUGH PROMOTING ITS QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Tunisia is underpinned its sustained growth as a denim supplier through promoting its quality specialist production that employs sustainable environmental and social practices.
Since its 2011 revolution that launched the ‘Arab Spring’, exports of denim jeans from Tunisia have doubled. According to the Tunisian exports and promotions agency CEPEX the value of jeans exported from Tunisia have risen from Tunisian dinars TND586.40 million (USD202 million) in 2010 to TND1.32 billion (USD455 million) in 2018.…
PRESSURES GROW ONTO CHINA’S GOVERNMENT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT PORK
AFRICAN swine fever (ASF) has been squeezing pork supplies in China to a point where the country’s political leadership fears upheaval, as reflected by the country’s government influenced social media restricting ASF-related discussion. Even academic articles, if ASF-themed, now require explicit regulatory approval before publishing, informed sources in China, who requested anonymity, told just-food. …
GERMAN FREIGHT FORWARDER HIT WITH USD1 BILLION FINE OVER ANGOLA BRIBES
Disgraced German-owned freight forwarding company, FH Bertling, was fined GBP850,000 (USD1 million) June 3 for an Angolan bribery scheme, in a case brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The four-year investigation and prosecution by the SFO into the company’s British wing revealed that senior executives had conspired to pay USD350,000 in bribes to an agent of the Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, to secure USD20 million worth of shipping contracts between January 2004 and December 2006.…
GERMAN FREIGHT FORWARDER HIT WITH USD1 BILLION FINE OVER ANGOLA BRIBES
Disgraced German-owned freight forwarding company, FH Bertling, was fined GBP850,000 (USD1 million) June 3 for an Angolan bribery scheme, in a case brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The four-year investigation and prosecution by the SFO into the company’s British wing revealed that senior executives had conspired to pay USD350,000 in bribes to an agent of the Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, to secure USD20 million worth of shipping contracts between January 2004 and December 2006.…
EUROPE STILL HAS SIGNIFICANT WORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE HARMONISING ITS NATIONAL GRID
MARCH’S approval by the European Parliament of new European Union (EU) electricity market rules, designed to increase consumer choice, boost renewables access and cap power subsidies, were hailed by the European Commission as a new dawn for the creation of the EU’s much vaunted Energy Union.…
ENERGY MANAGEMENT GOOD PRACTICE CAN BE HONED THROUGH DETAILED INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
WITH the Carbon Trust defining energy management as the use of technology to improve energy performance of an organisation within their holistic management processes, the need to tap data banks of expertise can only help in framing and operating such policies.…
BANGLADESH PLOTS DIGITAL PRINTING EXPANSION, AS TRAINED PERSONNEL BECOME MORE AVAILABLE
BANGLADESH’S major textile and clothing manufacturers are pumping millions of dollars into digital printing, encouraged by the lure of better margins, cost savings and shorter lead times, industry watchers say.
With conventional textile printing losing its prominence, the country’s top textile producers have spent around USD30 million buying European and Asian digital printing machinery in the past three to four years, industry experts have told Digital Textile.…
MONGOLIA LOOKS TO LEVERAGE DAIRY TRADITIONS TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE EXPORT SECTOR
MONGOLIA’S grassland ecology has always lent itself to livestock and hence milk production, so it is no surprise that the development of a dairy industry has been a priority for its government and international institutions.
A five-year loan worth USD12 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development via Mongolia’s XacBank announced in February (2019) is just one such related initiative.…