Hints and tips:
...In a sign of rapprochement, US trade representative Katherine Tai will travel to Johannesburg this week for an Agoa forum hosted by Ramaphosa....
...Right after I landed at Changi Airport, I saw the news about the massive earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula....
...It has struck a €350mn deal to buy Alpha Associates, a Zurich-based company that manages €8.5bn of assets across funds of funds investing in private debt, infrastructure and private equity strategies....
...DWAC has also brought on Katherine Chiles as chief financial officer, a role previously held by Brazilian politician Luis Orleans-Braganza....
...Chinese commerce minister Wang met his US counterpart Gina Raimondo and US trade representative Katherine Tai last week, though Beijing rebuffed a meeting between its defence minister Li Shangfu, who is...
...Katherine Tai, the US Trade Representative, told Bloomberg on Thursday that the Biden administration had “observed” the breakthrough in Windsor “with a great amount of interest”....
...Speaking at in-person earnings calls for the first time in three years, the heads of these three companies struck a confident note, emboldened by their recent share price rallies....
...But we were particularly struck by the focus on green hydrogen — a technology still at the earliest stages of its rollout....
...The question is whether a deal can be struck....
...Paul, Weiss has hired former federal judge Katherine Forrest, most recently a partner at Cravath, as a litigation partner in New York....
...And in a more immediate move, a New York court this week has struck a blow to crypto industry giant Tether over the disclosure of information on the reserves backing its own eponymous stablecoin....
...Roe’s reversal came a day after another divisive decision in which the court struck down a century-old New York state law requiring an individual to show “proper cause” to carry a concealed gun in public...
...Other members of the conservative majority that struck down Roe vs Wade stressed that the abortion case should not be applied more widely....
...And while its home market is being targeted by foreign players, Toyota Motor has struck a deal to gain access to a US lithium mine to help it compete in the global EV race....
...Washington has already struck similar deals with the EU and Japan, although it only began talks with the UK on lifting the tariffs in January....
...The rare exception is the US trade representative Katherine Tai, who, just a few days ago, called for an end to wilful blindness to the failings in the current global trade paradigm....
...The deal with Japan is similar to one struck by the Biden administration with the EU in October, which lifted tariffs on billions of dollars of transatlantic metal trade....
...The comments came hours after Katherine Tai, US trade representative, criticised China for not living up to the trade deal it signed with the US last year....
...In June, the US struck deals with the UK and EU to suspend tariffs on each others’ goods for five years over subsidies given to aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus....
...“Tariffs do tend to raise domestic prices,” she said, but added that US trade representative Katherine Tai was “revisiting” the phase one trade deal with Beijing....
...According to people familiar with the matter, Katherine Tai, the US trade representative, and Gina Raimondo, the US commerce secretary, have considered launching a probe of China’s subsidies under section...
...Boris Johnson’s government has said it will invoke Article 16 if a deal is not struck with Brussels to ease what it says are unworkable restrictions on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland imposed...
...The deal mirrors those struck with Canada and Mexico, who agreed to limit steel imports in return for the lifting of tariffs....
...Mary Ng, Canada’s trade minister, has previously written to the Democratic and Republican leaders and to Katherine Tai, US trade representative, and Gina Raimondo, US commerce secretary, to convey Ottawa...
...A troubled relationship Biden has struck a more hawkish tone on China than allies had expected....
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