The worlds biggest Trade Blocs is deepening with china announcing new tariffs on Brandy Imports from the european unIon. It follows last Weeks DecisIon by the eu to push ahead with Import Taxes of its own on Electric Vehicles from china. Last Year China imported about 1. 8bn of brandy from the eu with the vast majority coming from france. From Friday Companies that import will have to pay a tariff of up to 39 to the chinese government after they decided their own producers were being unfairly harmed. It follows the eu pushing ahead with tariffs of up to 45 of chinas Electric Vehicles which it says have benefitted unfairly from government help. Last Year Trade between the Eu And China was worth about 811 BillIon after it fell last year. With more tarfffs under consideratIon, it could fall further. Im joined now by Dr Deborah elms, head of Trade Policy at the Hinrich FoundatIon in singapore. It describes itself as a philanthropic organizatIon that works adavance sustainable trade. So the
A typical temperatures to end the week, will be around 11 or 12 degrees. Over the weekend, temperatures will rise just a little, most of the rain is coming into Western Scotland and northern ireland. Much of england and wales, it should be a dry weekend. Some early mist and but otherwise some sunshine. China slaps new tariffs on brandy from the European Union are two of the worlds biggest Trade Blocs heading for full blown Trade War . More than a dozen Us States say that tiktok is dangerous and addictive for children. Welcome to business today. A row between two of the worlds biggest Trade Blocs is deepening with china announcing new tariffs on Brandy Imports from the European Union. It follows last Weeks Decision by the eu to push ahead with Import Taxes of its own on Electric Vehicles from china. Last Year China imported about 1. 8bn of brandy from the eu with the vast majority coming from france. From Friday Companies that import will have to pay a tariffs of up to 39 to the chinese
[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
The u. K. Government sets up discussions with industry as brexit disruption closes in. Negotiations with the eu are set to crash through an informal deadline this weekend. Good morning. Just over an hour to go until the start of cash equity trading. Let have a look at where we are on the futures picture. Futures in europe looked to be a little bit to the downside. Lets break into the futures to talk about whats going on with the u. K. Economy growing in the Third Quarter from the previous quarter. Growing by 1. 1 in the month of september. The estimate was 1. 5. We were hearing that from our colleagues moments ago. They were talking about the estimates for september and the First Quarter. The number i have penciled in from them was 1. 5 gain in gdp for september. It is a little bit below that. The broad theme is the same. That 1. 1 in september adding to strong rebound numbers earlier on in the Third Quarter. The Third Quarter comes up by 15. 5 . That could be a smashing of a record in
Minute. Veterans day yesterday in america with the bond market shut down. There is no other backstory in america right now than the pandemic. It has pushed everything aside, including this election. Francine i agree. We will have play more on that. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is rick a group to ritika gupta. Ritika the state of georgia will conduct a hand count a recount by hand. Joe biden leaves by leads by roughly 14,000 votes. The Trump Campaign alleged there were widespread election regulators, but there was no proof. President elect joe biden is naming longtime aide ron klain as white house chief of staff. Klain played a leading role during the economic and Public Health crises of the Obama Administration, leading the the job the job is one of the most powerful in washington. Dharna is set to take moderna is set to take a spotlight take the spotlight on a new coronavirus vaccine. It will allow a preliminary analysis of its effectiveness to begin. Moder