SK matkasi neljä päivää rahtilaivalla, joka kuljetti terästä Torniosta Hollannin Terneuzeniin. Kriisioloissa Suomen lipun alla ajavat laivat riittävät vain elintärkeisiin kuljetuksiin.
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SK matkasi neljä päivää rahtilaivalla, joka kuljetti terästä Torniosta Hollannin Terneuzeniin. Kriisioloissa Suomen lipun alla ajavat laivat riittävät vain elintärkeisiin kuljetuksiin.
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Petri Pöntinen
There is a ruler — Jeff Bezos, even though he has stepped down as CEO — and there are lesser officials, not just senior vice presidents but fulfillment center managers, human resources employees, and the heads of Amazon’s delivery service partners, which, while legally separate entities, pop up in Amazon’s wake and often exist solely to carry out its delivery needs, the separation so fictitious that many of their drivers wear Amazon-branded uniforms and drive Amazon-branded vans.
Euractiv Nov 2022. The year 2022 saw a significant strengthening of ties between South Korea and Poland, thanks to major arms deals and a Korean firm contracted to build a nuclear power plant in Poland – with a touch of ‘kimchi diplomacy’.
"Poland and South Korea are alike in many ways. Both were relative latecomers to democracy in the early 1990s, and both presided over a notably conservative electorate. Now, 2022 appears to be the year the two countries cemented their ties. "
Euractiv Dec 2, 2022: The Bundestag has officially ratified the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which has been under provisional application since 2017.
Only after the adoption of all EU member states can the agreement come fully into force, including provisions on investment protection, which proved controversial in the past.
“11 countries are still missing,” said Verena Hubertz, vice-chairman of the Bundestag group of Germany’s leading governing party SPD. “But we’re optimistic, now that we’re leading the way, that others will follow quickly,” she said.
Close Comparison Reveals Negotiators Repeating TPP's Mistakes A secretive trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors could lay down new, inflexible copyright standards across the Asia-Pacific region. If you are thinking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), think again—we're...
"RCEP fails to improve much on the TPP in areas where it quite easily could; most notably in the language on limitations and exceptions, which fails to require countries to include an equivalent to fair use in their copyright laws.
Finally, the proposed language on related rights for broadcasters is actually worse than the TPP. The TPP negotiators were wise to mostly avoid this topic, being that it is currently still under negotiation at WIPO, whereas RCEP has plunged ahead and sought to enshrine obligations for the protection of broadcasters that remain controversial and untested around the world.
Worst of all is that none of these problems would have come to light if the text of the agreement had not been leaked. Like the TPP before it, the RCEP is being negotiated in a secretive fashion, behind closed doors, without adequate input from Internet users or any other of the stakeholders whose lives and livelihoods it will affect. "
With the help of governments and their intelligence agencies, the global arms trade continues to be a controlling and corrupting force throughout the world.
BRI, Shipping, "From Zeebrugge and Liège to the ports of Italy, Spain and France and to the Eastern part of the continent, Chinese corporations and the Belt & Road Initiative are accelerating the development of infrastructure megacorridors, putting trade in front of people and planet." "There is also the question of how the rest of the world will react to this new restructured global capital and the even more pervasive issue of accessing the last remaining natural resources. Is the trade war, which is very much about technology, only the beginning of a more serious conflict?
Proposed negotiations on e-commerce in the WTO are inconvenient for developing countries, for our SMEs and for people in general. by Sally Burch, dec 2017
Few people know that the European member states taken as a whole is one of the biggest arms exporters in the world. On the international stage Europe likes to present itself as a continent that stands for democracy and peace, but this façade does not correspond to reality.
Did you know that the EU wants to allocate more than 40 billion euros to the research, development and procurement of new arms? That the arms industry is trying to hijack the European Defence policy? Read all about it on this page.
Professor Drahos: "So farmers, librarians, educators, cultural innovators, young people who want to culturally innovate, who want to parody for example a trade mark and suddenly find themselves threatened become theyre making fun of somebody. I mean there are so many people that have an interest in this. We live in a networked world. I see more and more networking amongst NGOs. I think there is a growing sense in which we have to realize we are not alone. That we can fight back."
An unprecedented protest movement of a scope not seen since the Iraq war in Germany has pushed negotiations over the TTIP trans-Atlantic free trade agreement to the brink of collapse. The demonstrations are characterized by a level of professionalism not previously seen.
When he isn’t spewing insults, the Republican frontrunner is hammering home a powerful message about free trade and its victims
Trump’s words articulate the populist backlash against liberalism that has been building slowly for decades and may very well occupy the White House itself, whereupon the entire world will be required to take seriously its demented ideas
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Angela Merkel did not rule out the possibility of a future free trade area between the EU and Russia. She also assured that the agreements of the EU with
European Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström has made a bad choice in appointing Jan Eric Frydman as Special Adviser on EU-US Trade Policy. Frydman, whose ongoing work for Swedish law firm Ekenberg & Andersson creates potential conflicts of interest, has a strong pro-ISDS background and a tricky revolving door history. He's part of the problem, not the solution.
Die Gesamtausfuhr 2010 erreichte inklusive des Exports von gebrauchten Bundeswehrkriegswaffen mit 2,119 Milliarden Euro einen historischen Höchstwert! Das angesehene internationale Friedensforschungsinstitut in Stockholm (SIPRI) hatte bereits im Juni Deutschland wieder auf Platz drei in der Weltrangliste der Rüstungsexporteure platziert. Seit 2005 hält Deutschland laut SIPRI den zweifelhaften (west-)europäischen Spitzenplatz beim Rüstungsexport. Im Jahrfünft von 2006 bis 2010 verdoppelte Deutschland seinen Kriegswaffenausfuhrwert gegenüber dem Jahrfünft davor. Es führte in den letzten fünf Jahren beinahe so viele Rüstungsgüter aus wie Frankreich und Großbritannien zusammen.
Ein Paradebeispiel für solche Geschäfte ist der Verkauf von 170 Panzern, die Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) bis vor kurzem an die Griechen lieferte. Dafür sollte das Unternehmen 1,7 Milliarden Euro erhalten. Bei solchen Deals fließen in der Regel Millionen für Beratungsleistungen. Was genau da beraten wird und warum die Firmen meist in Steueroasen sitzen, wird selten bekannt. Die geheimen Firmen gehören in der Regel griechischen "Vermittlern" - oft honorige Industrielle. Die, so besteht häufig der Verdacht, verteilen dann die Gelder an Entscheidungsträger.
BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Transparency campaigners have hauled the European Union's executive to court for withholding documents about free trade talks with India, intensifying pressure on the bloc to make its policy-making less secretive. The lawsuit, lodged with the EU's second-highest court on Tuesday, accuses the EU Commission of breaking transparency and democracy rules by refusing to disclose to campaigners details of plans shared with EU industry on how to open Indian markets.
Der chinesische Export erreicht immer neue Rekordmarken und läßt nun den deutschen weit hinter sich. Dabei hat sich Chinas Anteil an der Weltindustrieproduktion seit 1996 von unter 5 % auf über 20 % mehr als vervierfacht und ist an den USA vorbei auf die Weltspitzenposition vorgerückt. Industriproduktion in 2012 in Mrd US$: USA 2064: CHINA 2168. Exporte von Industriegütern in die EU in Mrd € (2011) : aus Deutschland 312; aus China 294.
Wilkerson: "Let's make it a commercial empire and let's maintain that empire in terms of commerce and not in terms of killing people, killing people for oil or killing people for human rights. I think both are just as bad as the other..."
"The biggest Brazilian investor in Africa - and one of the biggest investors in the continent from anywhere - is Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, which is usually known as Vale. It is one of the three biggest mining companies in the world and is the world's biggest iron ore miner, controlling about 27% of the global market. It also produces coal, nickel, copper, bauxite, alumina, aluminium and a wide range of other commodities. As a result of the needs of its mining operations, it also invests heavily in power plants, railways and port infrastructure. Vale currently has investments totalling $7.7bn in nine African countries and plans to invest more than $18bn in Africa over the next five years but much will depend on the direction of global markets over that time." "The firm's biggest investment, however, is its Moatize coal mining project in the Moatize Basin of Tete Province in northwestern Mozambique."
In sum the draft confirms the will to impose greater regulatory "convergence" and "harmonization" of future regulations between the EU and the US in the only interest of transnational corporations and the financial industry. The vagueness of the draft would allow the Commission great freedom to achieve this. Social, labour and environmental rights in both sides of the Atlantic are under fire.
" “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure,” he said. One of the world’s largest dealers of petroleum coke is the Oxbow Corporation, which sells about 11 million tons of fuel-grade coke a year. It is owned by William I. Koch, a brother of David and Charles. Lorne Stockman, who recently published a study on petroleum coke for the environmental group Oil Change International, says, “It’s really the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth,” he said. "
Jos EU:n sopimuksiin Yhdysvaltojen ja Kanadan kanssa sisältyy investointisuoja, ulkomaisille sijoittajille avautuu mahdollisuus toimia kansallisen lainsäädännön vastaisesti. Markus Kröger (Suomen Akatemian tutkijatohtori Helsingin yliopistossa)., HS Vieraskynä 31.10.2013: "... lyhyessä ajassa on syntynyt joukko mittavia voittoja tekeviä lakiasiaintoimistoja, jotka etsivät aktiivisesti asiakkaita syytteiden nostamiseksi hallituksia vastaan... Investointisuoja tekee mahdolliseksi kansainvälisen korvausvaatimuksen, vaikka esimerkiksi kaivos rikkoisi paikallista ympäristölainsäädäntöä tai kaikki maan asukkaat olisivat hanketta vastaan ja onnistuisivat pysäyttämään sen."
Daniel Sandström, krönika i SvD 3.11.13 om GCHQs besök på The Guardian i juli. "vad händer med Amazons börskurs när CIA, som är storkund hos Amazons digitala molnservice, inte gillar vad Washington Post gör? Eller vad händer när tidningarnas avslöjanden påverkar USA:s handelsavtal med Europa, vilket i sin tur påverkar villkoren för Amazons globala expansion? Det kan mycket väl visa sig att Jeff Bezos inte är ett bättre försvar för journalistiken än vinkelslipen och borren"
EurActiv 10 janvier 2014 Lors d'un débat au Sénat, l'ensemble des partis a émis de vives critiques à l'encontre du Partenariat Transatlantique en négociation avec les Etats-Unis. La ministre en charge du Commerce extérieure, Nicole Bricq, le souligne non sans dépit. C'est surtout en France que l'on constate une mobilisation sur ce que les français appellent le « traité » transatlantique. Chevènement: "On ne peut pas parler de libre-échange lors les parités passent de 1 à 2 entre l'euro et le dollar en l'espace d'une décennie seulement " Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, sénatrice PS: "« Je suis très hostile à ce traité » a d’emblée prévenu l’ex-député européenne. « Force est de constater que la mondialisation heureuse n'a pas eu lieu ! Nous sommes dans une logique où les firmes multinationales ne sont pas dans une situation que nous pouvons réguler a-t-elle indiqué.
For the first time in centuries China has overtaken the US as the world’s biggest trading nation, with total trade standing at $4.16 trillion in 2013. The world's second-largest economy has raised its exports by 7.9 percent to $2.21 trillion, while imports increased by 7.3 percent to $1.95 trillion, bringing the total trade to $4.16 trillion, up 7.6 percent from 2012, according to the Financial Times.
30.000 Menschen haben sich am vergangenen Samstag unter dem Motto "Wir haben es satt!" auf dem Potsdamer Platz in Berlin versammelt und anschließend im Regierungsviertel für eine Agrarwende und gegen das geplante Freihandelsabkommen EU-USA (TTIP) demonstriert. Denn die Große Koalition fährt die Agrarpolitik an die Wand. Wer Megaställe genehmigt und subventioniert, wer auf Export und Freihandel setzt und dann auch noch darüber nachdenkt, Gentech-Pflanzen auf Europas Äckern zuzulassen, der lässt die Bäuerinnen und Bauern im Stich und handelt gegen Verbraucher_innen und Umwelt. Am Samstag haben wir gesehen, wie schnell die Bewegung für eine sozialökologische Agrarwende wächst. Das ist gut so – und auch notwendig: Noch 2014 müssen wir TTIP verhindern!
DN 2014-02-21 Vi i Sverige producerar numera bara hälften av det vi äter. Höga krav på miljö förväntas kombineras med global frihandel, samtidigt som jordbruksstöden kritiseras. Vi måste tänka om och ta ansvar för vår del av matproduktionen på en jord som ska försörja allt fler, skriver tre forskare på SLU.Anders Wästfelt, docent i kulturgeografi, SLU och Stockholms universitet Camilla Eriksson, fil dr i landsbygdsutveckling, SLU Erik Westholm, professor i landsbygdsutveckling, SLU
"About 6,200 German companies are engaged in Russia, some of them very strongly," Anton Boerner, head of the BGA exporters' body, told the Dortmunder Ruhr Nachrichten newspaper in an interview published on Friday. "For them, economic sanctions would be a real catastrophe." Germany's "wise men" council of economic advisers said on Thursday the Ukraine crisis was the biggest threat to global growth, and especially Germany, because of Russia's importance of an energy exporter. The BGA said last week that while a trade conflict would be damaging for Germany, "for the Russian economy it would be life-threatening." Bilateral trade with Russia, which totals about 76 billion euros, fell last year.
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Marietje Shaake: "I am the spokesperson for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) on TTIP. This FAQ will answer the main questions and sets out my priorities for TTIP. Please check out this page regularly as I will update it as the process evolves. I will also use this page to ask for your input and ideas, whether it’s on public procurement, foreign direct investment (FDI) protection, Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), quality of beef or the convergence of technical standards for new IT devices or cars, etc."
By Elvis Picardo , Forbes 20 Jun 2014 The Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) triennial survey of forex turnover (or trading volume) is perhaps the most authoritative source of global forex trading data. According to the BIS survey conducted in April 2013, global forex market activity was a staggering $5.3 trillion per day in that month, an increase of 33% from daily turnover of $4 trillion in 2010. Forex turnover has more than quadrupled since 2001, when it was just over $1.2 trillion.