TRADE WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

One income for all: far-fetched, or future fact?

Feb 01, 2017 (AFP)

It is a utopian idea, literally, but is enjoying a renaissance as politicians and policy wonks grapple with technology-driven changes that could redefine our ve...

Tech firms unite to challenge Trump on immigration

Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)

A broad coalition of US technology firms has begun planning a joint legal strategy challenging President Donald Trump's executive order barring refugees and man...

China trade cost 3.4 mn US jobs in 2001-2015: report

Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)

A yawning trade deficit with China cost 3.4 million US jobs between 2001 and 2015, according to a report published Tuesday which coincided with abrupt White Hou...

Trump economic advisor bashes Germany on currency: report

Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)

A top economic advisor to US President Donald Trump bashed Germany for exploiting an undervalued euro to take advantage of its trading partners, the Financial T...

An uneasy Silicon Valley denounces Trump immigration ban

Jan 29, 2017 (AFP)

Silicon Valley heads have slammed US President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and many Muslims from entering the United States, fearing it could preve...

EU slaps China with new steel anti-dumping duties

Jan 27, 2017 (AFP)

The EU slapped definitive anti-dumping duties on steel products from China and Taiwan on Friday, as it broadens its campaign to protect struggling steel manufac...

Japan posts first annual trade surplus since Fukushima

Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)

Japan on Wednesday reported its first annual trade surplus since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster sent the country's energy import bills soaring. The governm...

EU envoy says China must open market to match soaring words

Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)

China has not done enough to open its market, the EU's ambassador said Wednesday, and must take "concrete actions" to give European companies equal access to th...

Australia opens door to China in push to save TPP

Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)

Australia said Tuesday it was working to recast the Trans-Pacific Partnership without the United States and opened the door for China to sign up after President...

Trump trade moves chilling, could hurt US business: trade experts

Jan 23, 2017 (AFP)

President Donald Trump's first moves on trade have cast a pall over US trade relations and could hurt US businesses, trade experts say. Trump has begun his term...

Chinese growth slows in 2016 with outlook uncertain

Jan 20, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese growth hit its weakest rate for more than a quarter-century last year but while Friday's data pointed to stability in the world's number two economy, Be...

China-backed trade pact gains as Trump threatens to ditch TPP

Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)

Asia will push ahead with a Chinese-supported free trade agreement if Donald Trump follows through on pledges to ditch the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), glob...

Alibaba's Ma makes star turn as Davos pivots to China

Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)

President Xi Jinping wowed the audience in Davos with his exaltation of globalisation, but China's real "Davos Man" may be the omnipresent and deal-hungry found...

New UN chief at Davos seeks allies in business

Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used his first address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday to push for a new partnership with business to hel...

Over 80% of US firms feel less welcome in China: survey

Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)

More than 80 percent of American companies feel China is less welcoming to foreign businesses than in the past, a US business lobby group reported Wednesday, as...

First 'Silk Road' train arrives in UK from China

Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)

After an 18-day, 12,000-kilometre (7,450-mile) intercontinental journey, the first freight train from China arrived in Britain on Wednesday. The lengthy journey...

Davos darling Xi not practising what he preaches: analysts

Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)

Xi Jinping's hymn to globalisation at Davos may have won acclaim from the meeting's well-heeled elite, but Chinese experts say it was distinctly out of tune wit...

HSBC will likely switch jobs to France on Brexit: CEO

Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)

HSBC bank would likely switch 1,000 jobs to Paris from London, with Britain planning to leave the EU single market under Brexit, chief executive Stuart Gulliver...

Red-handed: China province admits faking economic data

Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)

A Chinese official has admitted his province falsified its economic data for years, state media said Wednesday, vindicating long-held suspicions that China has ...

China's richest man warns Trump against trade war

Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)

China's richest man, Hollywood investor Wang Jianlin, warned Donald Trump Wednesday against dragging the entertainment industry into a trade war -- saying his c...