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China uses subsidies extensively to take a leading role in the global markets of green-tech products such as battery … electric vehicles and wind turbines. Against the background of the current EU investigations into Chinese subsidies in these … sectors, this article takes a careful look at the Chinese subsidy system and provides new data on direct government subsidies …
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Since the beginning of the seventies Latin American exporters have been losing ground to their Asian competitors on the EEC as well as on the world market. While Latin American authorities tend to put the blame on external factors, and among them not least on the allegedly protectionist and...
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The successful completion of negotiations on the Common Fund has not yet led to the hoped-for break-through for any of the commodity agreements belonging to the Integrated Programme for Commodities (IPC). Opposition, particularly by the industrialised countries, but also by individual producer...
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The situation in the world copper markets has been of woridwide interest, not only due to nationalization efforts in several producing countries but also because of the growing desire of less developed countries (LDCs) to establish international commodity agreements similar to the CIPEC model.
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Overall, decoupling from certain countries may be both politically necessary and economically feasible, at least in the long run. However, a general shift of production back to Europe would be accompanied by significant losses in real income.
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The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence has sparked fierce debate about the regulation of supply chains. The directive's objectives are aligned with European values. However, it raises concerns that the compliance costs of social and environmental regulations may be privatised in...
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