In and welcome the United States has again stead of war is over International Trade by announcing more tariffs washington says it could slap additional duties of up to 100 percent on the early 2 and a half 1000000000. 00 worth of french imports would affect imports of champagne handbags cheese and other tariffs would be a reprisal for new French Digital Services tax on Companies LikeGoogle Facebook and amazon the u. S. Trade Representatives Office says frances digital tax is inconsistent with prevailing principles of International Tax cuts. President donald trump on monday also announced tariffs on u. S. Steel and aluminum imports from brazil and argentina in reaction to both announcements wall street and european exchanges closed lower on monday and shanghai stocks hit a 3 month low now lets check in on the markets with our financial correspondent charles the delaney in frankfurt chelsea france is not the only you country with plans for a Digital Detox could other countries soon face similar tariffs. Theres certainly going to be other countries in the line of fire here and they announced yesterday in the us that they were also considering tariffs on austria and turkey on italy who have also moved to implement these taxes but there also are just a very long list of countries that have been considering additional tax thats the Czech Republic poland india space and theres just a very wide variety of countries who have been looking into taxes like this part of that is because there has been an effort to implement a tax that is International Level thats really fall of through so the o. E. C. D. Is trying to sort of unite 129. 00 jurisdictions into a new global taxes and thats really taking a long time so i think this is really going to raise the stakes for the e. C. B. To come to an agreement which theyre hoping to do by next year so there is still hope that the u. S. Will delay these tariffs on french goods until the o. E. C. D. Can come to some sort of agreement if you look at the Bigger Picture here but how concerned are investors about that another escalation in the trade tensions yeah i think theres a lot of concern about that right now you know the market has has really run up a lot in the past couple of months and there has been a lot of back and forth on on the sentiment surrounding trade tensions but yesterday there was not only these these new french tariffs being threatened there was also new tariffs on. Metals from brazil and argentina the u. S. Also threatened to do more tariffs for the e. U. Good so i think theres still a lot of a lot of concern that this could really escalate and of course the u. S. And china are still working towards this trade deal and were about 2 weeks away from a potential new. With more tariffs on that front as well so i think theres theres definitely a risk that this is going to continue to spiral for and thats a concern for investors. So the dilemma in frankfurt thank you. United nations 2 week Climate Summit 25 is now under way in the dreaded World Leaders face pressure to prove the political will is there to keep Global Warming in check in evitable focus will be china where concern is growing that a slowing economy is leading to a resurgence in coal production. China is coal country it burns around half of all coal used globally every year thats part of the reason why it accounts for around 30 percent of Global Carbon emissions but its also the worlds leading market for solar panels Wind Turbines and electric vehicles a paradox made possible by the monumental scale of chinas energy demands. Amid rapid Economic Growth over the last 2 decades chinese Greenhouse Gas emissions rose sharply but a government led war on pollution saw a decline in 20152016 however emissions are rising again and with chinese Economic Growth at its slowest rate in 25 years the government is reducing subsidies for a new bills and reviving its support for coal one u. S. Based Energy Monitor estimates that china is planning to build new coal power plants with a capacity of 148. 00 gigawatts thats equal to the entire coal capacity of the e. U. Chinese government pledges on a mission reductions that have become noticeably more watered down in recent times woman you found me. We will on the one hand you continue to work hard at addressing Climate Change. But on the other hand we are faced with multiple challenges for a developing economy that we must improve peoples livelihoods reduce poverty was also controlling pollution. We have our pressures and challenges but we will still do our best to fulfill the promises that we have made if you look at the time. Even in traditional cold heavy regions such as shan g. In northern China Solar Panel installations became a feature in recent years. But its still cold thats keeping their home fires burning. And that doesnt look like changing anytime soon. Im now joined in this to you about taiwan correspondent William Young william welcome to the studio what does slowing growth in china mean for its climate goals so the slowing economy is actually pressuring china to ensure that theyre adopting more Cost Effective ways to continue to supply all the energy all the industries in the country needs so in fact they have less leverage to actually keep funding the large scale a new Energy Projects like what we saw in a few years ago so their option a lot of the times is to restart a lot of the a ko power plants that they previously suspended so. That is the main reason for them if we are very serious about Climate Change about their climate targets or does does the economy always come 1st i think. Economy always has come 1st especially at this time that they are facing the lowest growth rate in 30 years and so they need to ensure that the money for the Energy Policy is where it still needs 2. 00 of the most improvements so actually they are shifting it to more poor regions in the country and then their funding the smaller scale rather than the larger scale of the energy Power Projects total Energy Program projects china made any progress with regard to bring you more new balls. Like we see the number they are now the largest producer of the solar energy and also wind turbine and also they have the highest selling number of the electric cars so in those regards we can still see that china is trying even though they have to step back a little bit so that they can ensure that their economy is not being affected so much by their amount of investment they put into the new energy sector. China like germany or the us coal regions bit may not want to let go of fossil fuels how big a factor. That factor really depends on how much they put into. Modernizing household facilities so that the house houses regions can actually be connected to the new Power Projects that you know. For providing can actually ensure that. Every household so in that regard we havent really seen enough of the modernization come into fruition yet the long way to go for china that. Thank you very much thank you. The north stream 2 pipeline is nearing completion its designed to bring gas from russia to germany many are critical of the project including the European Commission the usa poland and the Baltic States they fear that the you will become too dependent on russian natural gas. Loop mean in the german state of mecklenburg for parma this is where the 1200 kilometer long nord stream to pipeline reaches the german baltic sea coast soon natural gas from russia will be flowing towards western europe north stream 2 will circumvent ukraine gas market expert hike with no man says theres a very clear reason for building the pipeline. It was like naturally the russian side always insists that nord stream too wasnt built to bypass ukraine like north stream one but i believe thats exactly why dr sue and special ships they pipeline sections just a few kilometers off the german baltic sea coast resistance is coming from the us they are planning sanctions possibly to include those operating the vessels instead of natural gas from russia the usa wants to sell its liquid gas. Theres also opposition to the pipeline in poland its anti trust the authority has levied a 20000000. 00 fine stream to Financing Company reportedly because the proper documents were and submit it in my opinion no since you cannot be stopped because its so. Its. Developing into a way to actually make it possible to put a halt now however there is a chance to take the profit that ability over to project dell and to. Well to operate north into harder. In latvia the baltic country gets its liquefied natural gas by ship from qatar poland is signed contracts with the us for liquefied gas both countries want to free themselves from dependence on russia but taking Climate Change into consideration the north stream to pipeline could also be used to transport hydrogen instead of natural gas experts like and say climate killing Greenhouse Gases can be avoided that way. When he. Supposed to use natural gas long term and im supposed to split hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide the russians are working on a process for making solid carbon so there wont even be a need for Carbon Dioxide storage and i know. That means large volumes of liquid hydrogen could be transported by nord stream to replace in climate damaging natural gas its only a dream of the future but Climate Change is accelerating the process. Full malaysian Prime Minister najib rezai is due to testify for the 1st time over the one m. T. V. Scandal irans of course and for tuesday to begin his defense in the trial over the plundering off malaysias sovereign wealth funds as he denies the charges is estimated 95000000000. 00 was misappropriated from one m. T. V. And thats all from me and the Business Team for more Business News check out the website. Affectionately but as affectionately as you can. Put him in the middle of his election campaign. 2000 documentary was filmed for russian television. 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