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...Experts said Biden would be unlikely to turn down the request for a 301 probe....
...Much of the raw materials and components needed to produce new ships are no longer available in the US, thanks to the shrinking and outsourcing of the American manufacturing base, according to defence officials...
...Was there no other, less financially-risky policy that could have achieved the same macroeconomic result? Actually, maybe there was....
...Lord Nick Macpherson, former permanent secretary at the Treasury, said on the social media site X: “Even this hard bitten former HMT official would feel a little queasy if [the chancellor] combines a cut...
...In the FOI response, BEIS disclosed that there “was no longer an electronic record of the communication stored on the device used by Nadhim Zahawi, which was his personal mobile phone”....
...Water minister Rebecca Pow said last week said that the record of water companies in England was “unacceptable” after official data showed there were 301,091 sewage spills into rivers and the sea last year...
...money their customers have no choice over giving them.”...
...“We are under no illusions of the scale of the challenge ahead of us in improving the health of our rivers,” said Sarah Bentley, chief executive of Thames Water....
...No one really believes in it outside of countries in the Anglo-American world, and no one practices it.”...
...Reynolds expressed concern that Zahawi — then a junior business minister — had used his personal mobile phone with no official record to communicate with Gupta, asking for a full exchange of phone conversations...
...In London, the area in the UK worst hit by Omicron, daily hospital admissions increased to 301 on December 20, the highest level since February 7....
...“I’m not aware, in the past 30 years, of a single sanction being imposed . . . there are no sanctions,” he said....
...Back then, the official response was: “As with all policies, the government will keep the parameters of the policy under review.” So why hasn’t it?...
...Ethan Ilzetzki: There is no need for further tax rises to maintain sound public finances. The current HMT plan is sufficient. Dhaval Joshi: Depends on the depth and length of the recession....
...“Many tariffs remain in place with no indication of when or if they will be lifted.”...
...US officials have privately pointed out that the kingdom, an upper middle-income country, should no longer be benefiting from GSP, but the official reason for the move was continuing issues over US pork...
...The board is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the appointment of an army general with no experience in the industry....
...Nevertheless, Tai firmly told Congress she had no intention of being “put on the back-burner”....
...The commission regards it as an anti-Section 301 rather than a Section 301-type instrument, a retaliatory strike capability with a no-first-use constraint....
...Campbell, a former top Pentagon official who also served as the top state department official for Asia during Barack Obama’s administration, is seen by some as relatively hawkish....
...US trade officials are launching the probe as a section 301 investigation, the same process used in its trade dispute with China....
...Former senior official: The elephant is refusing to leave the room....
...Brazil’s top government official responsible for the Amazon has defended a draft law which critics say would make it easier for illegal loggers and ranchers to legalise land seizures in the rainforest....
...French officials agreed to hold off on the digital tax, US officials said they would hold fire on the tariffs, and both sides said they would wait to see what kind of multilateral agreement the nearly 140...
...What are the importers filing cases against Trump’s 301 tariffs on Chinese goods likely to achieve?...
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