(Global Trade Review, London, 16 August 2019) Two US senators have proposed a bill to reauthorise the US Export-Import Bank (US Exim) for 10 years over the traditional four, as the bank’s expiry date of September 30 inches closer. The plan, which is gaining widespread support and attention...
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2019/08/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(AllAfrica, Maputo, 25 August 2019) The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM US) has voted to notify the US Congress of its consideration of a five billion dollar loan to support the export of US goods and services for the development of the liquefied natural...
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2019/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Nuclear
(Foreign Policy, Washington, 30 July 2019) A bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing new legislation aimed at restricting the transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, the latest sign of growing congressional backlash to the Trump administration’s close relationship with the wealthy...
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2019/07/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Craft Brewing Business, Akron, 10 July 2019) Craft breweries are promoting Maine beers in international markets via the world’s largest mobile kegerator a 40-foot refrigerated shipping container which packs in 78 on tap beer tanks and carries local Maine beers to far-away destinations. Its...
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2019/06/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
(Reuters, Washington, 28 June 2019) China provided as much as $130 billion in government export financing support in 2018, dwarfing every other country and fueling a new export lending arms race, the U.S. Export-Import Bank said in a report on Friday. In the last full year that EXIM had...
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2019/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Politico, Washington, 26 June 2019) House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Wednesday shelved a bipartisan Export-Import Bank bill that sparked a fierce backlash from her own caucus. The original compromise she drafted with Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) ignited criticism from a...
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2019/05/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Debt, Renewables
(US General Accounting Office, Washington, 23 May 2019) The Export-Import Bank (EXIM) of the United States provides financing to support U.S. jobs and companies selling U.S. goods and services abroad. EXIM requires companies applying for certain financing to self-certify that they do not have...
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2019/05/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: End Coal Financing
(Bank Watch, Prishtina 13 May 2019) Kosovar and international non-governmental organisations have today submitted an official complaint to the Energy Community dispute settlement mechanism challenging the legality of the power purchase agreement for the planned Kosova e Re coal power project,...
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2019/05/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 8 May 2019) The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm 3 nominees to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The confirmation allows Ex-Im to establish a board quorum, clearing the way for the bank to revive its financing of billions of dollars in...
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2019/05/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(ctpost, Norwalk, 8 May 019) No federal agency has lived such a bizarre state of suspended animation as has the Export-Import Bank, a long-obscure bureau that provides loan guarantees to U.S. companies doing business abroad. Rather than heralding it as a force for job creation, free-market...
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2019/04/30
Country: India, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Money Control, Mumbai, 8 April 2019) India's' cash-strapped Jet Airways has delayed repayments to global lenders, including Citibank, that funded the purchase of its Boeing 777 planes the Economic Times reported. The repayments, worth over $18 billion, were due at the end of March. The banks...
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2019/04/29
Country: South Africa, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Debt
(The Citizen, Johannesburg, 3 April 2019) Moody’s credit opinion issued yesterday on the heels of its recent decision to keep South Africa’s credit rating one level above junk, said elevated government debt and contingent liabilities risks from state-owned enterprises (SOEs), limited government...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, 8 March 2019) Securing a level playing field internationally [i.e. matching corporate subsidies] is vital to manufacturers in the United States, which already export about half their production, supporting millions of workers across...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Business Wire, Washington, 28 March 2019) Leaders of government, business, and academia will address the 2019 Annual Conference of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) that held on Thursday and Friday, March 28-29, 2019, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The...
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2019/03/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
Reuters, Geneva/Paris, 28 March 2019) The World Trade Organization said on Thursday the United States had ignored its request to halt a subsidized tax break for Boeing Co in its main...
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