(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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2019/05/30
Country: Canada, China, USA
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: BRIC countries, G20
(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 14 May 2019) Canada’s overseas development finance arm is joining forces with a U.S. government agency that is being set up to act as a counterweight to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a state-sponsored foreign-investment scheme by Beijing. The U.S. government’s...
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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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2019/02/27
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(20 Essex Street, London, 2 February 2019) A recent UN report with recommendations to advance efforts to eradicate modern slavery has mentioned, amongst other examples, the direct or indirect involvement of a state in the commission of offences via ECA funding of slavery-tainted enterprises....
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2019/02/27
Country: Germany, Russia, USA
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Frankfurt, 8 February 2019) German banks are seeking to blunt any fresh U.S. sanctions against Russia so they can continue existing business with Russian clients, according to an internal briefing paper prepared by a financial industry lobby group. The risk of new restrictions on...
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2019/02/27
Country: Australia, Iraq, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
(Daily Sabah, Istanbul, 4 February 2019) Turkey, the top contributor for Iraq's reconstruction with a $5 billion loan, has launched a coordination process to allocate the funds pledged for rebuilding Iraq. During the Kuwait International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq, the host...
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2019/01/30
Country: Indonesia, Russia, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Aircraft, Arms Trade
(Jane's Defence Weekly, Singapore, 25 January 2019) The Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) has completed a study on the country's aerial refuelling requirements and has proposed the acquisition of two new airframes for the service, outlining a budget requirement of about USD500 million, proposing...
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2019/01/30
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Aircraft
(NEXI, Tokyo, 18 January 2019) Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) has decided to provide reinsurance on export credit provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the export credit agency of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), for export of one Rolls Royce-powered...
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