(GM Today, Waukesha, 24 January 2017) With a possible tariff imposed upon companies that manufacture products out of the country and bring them back in looming, GE will not alter its plan to send 350 manufacturing jobs from its Waukesha plant to Canada. Instead, the company remains open to the...
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2016/12/30
Country: USA
Issue: Aircraft
(Space News, Congers NY, 22 December 2016) Spacecom is buying its newest spacecraft from an American supplier without relying on financial support from the Export-Import Bank of the United States, according to a company official. Amos-17 is the first satellite Spacecom has bought from a U.S....
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2016/12/30
Country: USA
Issue: Aircraft
(Pueget Sound Business Journal, Seattle, 2 December 2016) Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg urged the new Republican administration of President-elect Donald Trump to preserve and reopen, not abolish the U.S. government's Export-Import Bank. Muilenburg said if Trump gets rid of the Ex-Im Bank, as he...
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2016/12/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Wall Street Journal, Washington, 8 December 2016) President-elect Donald Trump’s jawboning of executives to keep jobs in the U.S. is putting free-market conservatives in an awkward spot after they fought the Obama administration on other government intervention in business. Now, the fate of an...
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2016/12/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Guardian, London, 7 December 016) Congress quashed the hopes late Tuesday of reviving the United States’ export credit agency, which had been aiming for a stopgap lifeline allowing them to approve more than $20bn in new deals, many of which pose imminent harms to the environment. Now, the fate...
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2016/12/27
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Jubilee Australia
(wsws.org, Jacksonville, 19 December 2016) The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government announced on Friday that it will deploy military personnel to stop “violence” near the country’s biggest resources installation, the Exxon-Mobil Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project...The security and viability of...
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2016/11/30
Country: Australia, India, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Guardian, 30 November 2106, Washington) resident Barack Obama has staked his legacy on the environment, positioning his administration as the most progressive on climate change in US history. However, an obscure agency within his own administration has quietly spoiled his record by helping...
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2016/11/30
Country: Germany, Russia, USA
Issue: Corruption
(Drien Times, 10 November 2016, Darien CT) A federal jury in New Haven has found Pablo Calderon, 61, of Darien and Brett C. Lillemor, 46, of Minneapolis,...
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2016/11/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Forbes, 9 November 2017, Seattle) The reaction from diverse quarters in the aviation industry to Trump’s election was swift. FlightGlobal worried that ExIm and...
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2016/11/29
Country: USA
(Manufacturing Net, 4 November 2016, New Jersey) Small ecommerce business need better export credit support for online export working capital loans. 97% of American micro and small businesses that sell on eBay export, as opposed to the 1% of brick-and-mortar U.S. businesses that export... The...
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2016/11/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Large Dams
(Environmental Finance, 15 November 2016, Washington) On a promising note, the US recently led successful opposition to...
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2016/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(Medium, Washington, 15 October 2016) Friends of the Earth USA conducted a field study of the impacts of the development of liquefied natural gas on rural communities and their lands in northern Mozambique, a project considered for financing by the U.S. government Export Import Bank. Friends of...
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2016/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(NASDAQ, New York, 10 October 2016) Boeing's third-quarter 2016 commercial deliveries of 188 airplanes were down due to lower demand for the 737, 777 and 787 Dreamliners. During the release of first-quarter delivery numbers, CEO Muilenburg had revealed that the company is losing out on...
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2016/10/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Business Wire, Washington, 25 October 2016) [A vignette from the polarized US debate over Ex-Im] Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) its October Porker of the Month for his efforts to allow the wasteful Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank to function with limited...
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2016/09/30
Country: France, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Space News, Vermont, 14 September 2016) The OneWeb constellation, with a total of 900 low orbiting satellites whose capital cost has been estimated at around $3.5 billion including ground spares, is seeking export-credit agency support. But the U.S. Export-Import Bank remains on the sidelines...
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