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...Inspectors have seized tonnes of illegal meat, much of which is from Romania, where pork exports to other EU countries are banned due to African Swine Fever....
...The dairy industry is worth €13.1bn a year to the Irish economy, supports 54,000 jobs and brought in a record €6.8bn in exports in 2022....
...But the prospect of new or expanded initiatives is looking shakier after the government U-turned on a number of green targets....
...Council on Foreign Relations fellows Jennifer Hillman and Inu Manak suggest a new way of regulating and controlling industrial subsidies....
...Dave Nicholas, a director at New Zealand dairy company Hoeslandt, said China was “the great opportunity for all New Zealand companies operating in the dairy industry”, adding he looked forward to travelling...
...Exports have almost halved, from 375,000 tonnes in 2020 to 200,000 tonnes last year. Food producers, including in dairy and horticulture, are begging retailers to put up the price of staple foods....
...Mining company Lucara Diamond has called on the EU to impose sanctions on Russian diamonds after the bloc reversed on plans to hit gemstone exports....
...Germany has agreed to allow the export of heavy weaponry to Ukraine, a U-turn that follows weeks of pressure on Olaf Scholz’s government — and which comes despite Russian warnings of the conflict escalating...
...Expectations are mounting in London and in financial markets that Kwarteng will imminently announce a U-turn on the £43bn package of unfunded tax cuts....
...[Through] no fault of their own, they are suffering that downturn,” said Sally McManus, secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, last week. “And we say that because that will save jobs.”...
...The issue was raised during Tuesday’s European Council, when leaders discussed defence matters....
...And in lighter (though not calorie-wise) news, the EU’s top court ruled that Danish dairy producers should not name their cheese feta....
...is not on the list of excluded arms and war weapons export countries”....
...“This is an extreme measure, but we will not tolerate being stabbed in the back,” said the secretary of the party’s general council, Andrei Turchak....
...One idea being discussed in member state capitals is to deploy recovery fund loans to underpin energy investments, as the commission seeks to wean itself off Russian gas exports....
...Brexit U-turn: Boris Johnson has been accused by Tory MPs of “damaging the UK and everything the Conservatives stand for” as he prepares to publish a bill today which will rip up his 2020 Brexit deal with...
...Ukraine and Russia are among the biggest providers of wheat and animal feed to the EU, but all exports from Ukraine have stopped because of the Russian invasion....
...Dairy products were worst hit, with milk and cream exports to Europe dropping 90 per cent. Disruptions from Covid-19 continued to affect sales, along with Brexit factors, the FDF said....
...The European Commission is expected to grant a three-month extension to a grace period before restrictions come into force on exports of chilled meat products from Britain to Northern Ireland, diplomats...
...“The administration recognises the political situation it finds itself in,” said Tom Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa and president of the US Dairy Export Council....
...Gideon Rachman this week talks to Thant Myint-U, a Burmese historian and political analyst, about the situation in Myanmar and whether the country risks becoming a failed state....
...This year’s rebound in global trade should have boosted Europe’s export-focused economy with its high current account surplus....
...The commission president told MEPs from the three main groups that a U-turn over vaccine export restrictions for Northern Ireland should not have happened, as she sought to put an end to recriminations over...
...His local authority, the Highland Council, has promised to start issuing export health certificates needed for fresh fish early in the new year, he said, although he added that its resources were already...
...For example, when China’s State Council set out its “Made in China 2025” industrial policy in 2015, aimed at promoting China’s high-tech exports, it set a goal of 70 per cent self-sufficiency in semiconductors...
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