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...African governments can access a $2bn vaccine facility provided by the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank as well as funding from the World Bank....
...But Alam said the fuel import and electric-vehicle policies only existed on paper: “The government has not taken practical steps to implement them.”...
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” he said....
...Copper prices fell 1.51 per cent on the London Metal Exchange to a four-week low of $,4,733 a tonne, writes Henry Sanderson, commodities correspondent....
...Imports rose 15 per cent, and exports almost 29 per cent, and the trade gap is widening....
...For reference, from Citi, “India’s gold imports stood at US$34.3bn or ~900 tons in FY15 and in the not too distant past (i.e. FY12) imports had been as high as US$56bn, or over 1,000 tons.”...
...Often for less than Rs100 ($1.62) a pop....
...Trafigura, another big trader, last year spent roughly $800m buying two petrol stations and oil import terminals companies....
...Imports rose at a faster rate, 9.4%, and the trade deficit was Y879.9bn, the biggest since comparable records began in 1979....
...Honda imports from Japan some of the parts that go into its cars and entire models such as the Accord. The company’s reliance on imports hurt it badly last year....
...But in pre-Lehman days, the ratio of that deficit to GDP was at a more moderate 1 to 1.5 per cent GDP. That ratio jumped to a band of 2.3 to 2.8 per cent of GDP between 2009 and 2011....
...On Friday, the ITC, which has the power to ban the import and sale of goods in the US, is expected to deliver a preliminary ruling on the case....
...Meanwhile, imports rose 9.8 per cent to Y5,705.2bn, a smaller increase from May’s 12.3 per cent rise....
...Honda is also expected to introduce a redesigned CR-V late next year....
...In “Enron Australia v. TXU Electricity Ltd”, the court – contra Peck – permitted TXU to withhold performance under Section 2(a)(iii) indefinitely....
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime....
...For example, the 40 inch Sony Bravia KDL40S2000 comes with 3 composite A/V (1 on the side), 2 S-Video (1 on the side), 2 component (Y/Pb/Pr) sockets, 1 HDMI sock and one standard RF connector....
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