£9tn Indo-Pacific partnership ‘boost to UK tech’
ASIA Pacific investors are said to be set to inject millions of pounds into the UK tech industry.
Investment opportunities worth £100bn are being presented...
SMEs stymied by customs paperwork, says FSB
SMALL UK firms are being held back from international trade by excessive customs paperwork, soaring costs and supply chain issues, says the Federation of...
Ukraine invasion submerges Russia under barrage of sanctions
By HEATHER LEAH SMITH
TENSIONS which had been building between Russia and Ukraine came to a head on February 24, when Vladimir Putin ordered a...
UK firms ‘must prepare for realities of new relationship with EU’
THE realities of Brexit are beginning to bite, and could result in losses of £9.5bn for Greater London, with £2.2bn coming from financial and...
Four-car pile-up for Trump Administration: auto makers sue over China tariffs
THE TRUMP Administration is being sued by car makers Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and Volvo over government tariffs on imported Chinese components.
Lawsuits naming US trade...
Shipping data points to a rebound in world trade: UNCTAD report
THE NUMBER of ships pulling into ports to unload and load containers rebounded in many parts of the world in the third quarter of...
A menace by any other name: the ‘equaliser’ that just isn’t
By William Roman
COVID-19 and coronavirus are the most common names for it, but some sociologists and economists are tentatively hailing the virus as the...
Press ponders the wisdom and reason for British Steel buy-out
BRITISH Steel late last year announced a “rescue deal” with China's Jingye Group, a move that was expected to safeguard up to 4,000 UK...
UK car market stalled for fears of ‘emissions laws and Brexit’
NEW UK car registrations in 2019 fell to their lowest level in six years.
A total of 2.31m new cars were registered in 2019, down...
Walking a mile in China’s shoes will cost US shoppers dear
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump may figuratively have shot himself in the foot.
Another industry is about to become a casualty of America’s escalating trade war...
