China has unveiled plans to restrict exports of graphite, a mineral used to make steel and batteries for electric vehicles, on national security grounds, the the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs said on Friday.
Switzerland’s biggest political party wants to double down on neutrality, just as conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East make a nonaligned stance more difficult to sustain. The right-wing Swiss
Switzerland’s biggest political party wants to double down on neutrality, just as conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East make a nonaligned stance more difficult to sustain.
will help conserve water as it battles an ongoing drought. it s not the first time it s acted. it recently implemented a series of drought restrictions for the waterway with ships limited to the amount of cargo they could carry. let us discuss this more. joining us now is stefan legge, who is a lecturer in economics and head of tax and trade policy at the university of st gallen in switzerland. a warm welcome to the programme. first of all, can you give our viewers around the world a sense of how big an impact this has on trade, if the panama canal authority doesn t reduce the number of vessels that can pass through? inaudible but i see this incident rather as a fire signal, a signal of challenges coming ahead because the panama canal very much works like a
london - Russian crude oil shipments by volume have hit their highest level since the beginning of 2022, as Moscow has found new buyers outside Europe f