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...WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the first customs duties on digital products such as online films and software downloads will hit consumers and businesses in 2026, increasing prices in some countries....
...The (now realised) threat of European companies’ exports getting caught in US customs is a reputational risk if nothing else....
...You know, he’s not sort of pro-big state. He’s not been pro this green stuff....
...And it is unnecessary: a truly pro-growth government would have achieved the same social goal by letting prices rise, but giving an offsetting cash grant to each household....
...To meet these goals, and hit its ambitious targets for renewables, the government will have to deploy huge amounts of solar and wind power....
...At stake for pro-nuclear countries is private investment and cost of financing for their power plants....
...Read more Tokyo talk The best trade stories from Nikkei Asia India has raised import duties on solar lamps, mobile phone chargers and other products largely coming from China, in an effort to rebalance...
...On Thursday, Google had struck 18 wind and solar energy deals across the US, Europe and Latin America, together comprising what it said was the “biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history”...
...He estimates that 60 container-loads of materials had been shipped over from elsewhere in the region, most on a barge which was custom-built for the task....
...The main takeaway was cautious optimism, attributable to the government’s pro-business agenda, including: Crackdowns on corruption, particularly in the notoriously inefficient agricultural and customs businesses...
...The base case assumption is clunkier customs, poorer market access and lower migration....
...FT Money has taken a close look the pros and cons of “Do It Yourself” housing....
...Ukraine PM warns of ‘most dangerous 10 days’: “Ukraine’s interim prime minister said on Thursday his country was entering its “most dangerous 10 days” since independence in 1991 and was struggling to counter pro-Russian...
...Her indigo-clad minions proffer sweeties to the civilised folk who buy newspapers but whose lossmaking custom depresses margins....
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...But the market was initially buoyed by news on Monday that China would maintain a “pro-active” fiscal policy in 2010 and keep monetary policy loose....
...Today, the hotel has 17 rooms including a solar-powered trekking lodge a day’s walk away, a riad on the edge of Imlil, and a private villa in the grounds of the kasbah....
...City: Millions of people on Paye are paying the wrong tax Nearly one in eight people are paying the wrong amount of tax, HM Revenue Customs said....
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