Protectionism

Hanwha's opening of a 1.7GW module assembly plant in Georgia last year helped the segment score capacity rises where cells declined, the USITC said. Image credit: Hanwha Q Cells The protectionism of US president Donald Trump has failed to halt the decline of domestic PV cell makers and will not…

PARIS: China warned France against treating Huawei Technologies Co differently from European competitors when it comes to future 5G network equipment contracts, as the US mounts a campaign to keep the Chinese tech giant at bay. In a lengthy statement issued on Sunday on its website, the Chinese embassy in Paris…

(Bloomberg) -- China warned France against treating Huawei Technologies Co. differently from European competitors when it comes to future 5G network equipment contracts, as the U.S. mounts a campaign to keep the Chinese tech giant at bay.In a lengthy statement issued on Sunday on its website, the Chinese embassy in…

Photo: Reuters 4 min read . Updated: 09 Feb 2020, 09:15 PM IST Vivek Dehejia The latest budget’s import tariff hikes signal that a three-decade commitment to trade openness has been all but abandoned Minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman delivered one of the longest Union budget speeches in recent memory…

Written by P Chidambaram | Updated: February 9, 2020 9:41:16 am The so-called tax concession given to the income tax payer in the lower brackets has cluttered the tax structure and created confusion.Budget 2020-21 was presented on February 1, 2020. It made the headlines and was the subject of editorials…

Boris Johnson's threat to walk away from the EU without a trade deal will fail because Brussels won't give into his demands, warns former No10 bossLord Barwell said he does not believe threat of a no deal trade deal is effectivePM told Brussels this week that he would walk away…

Here’s a letter to Ian Fletcher: Ian: Displeased with my critical response to Sherman Xie’s futile attempt to discredit the principle of comparative advantage, you assert that I “don’t take seriously enough the lock-in effects of comparative advantage in dead-end industries.” That is, you accuse me of disregarding opportunities for…

In a letter to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the Senators said that thousands of US jobs relied on the soda ash industry and keeping tariffs low will help US workers and economy nationwide. A bipartisan group of six Senators has urged the Trump administration to work with the Indian…

Participants at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos AFP via Getty Images During the Davos 2020 meeting of the World Economic Forum something remarkable happened. A group of more than hundred millionaires, calling themselves “Millionaires against Pitchforks” spread a letter to governments in which they ask for more taxes.…

Feb 04, 2020, 10:48PM ISTSource: ANIWhile addressing at a public gathering in the national capital on February 04, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “We will be spending a lot of time looking at the implementation of the Budget. I assure you we will be on our toes. There…