(Yahoo News, Washington, 31 January 2021) The Trump administration used the USDA Commodity Credit Corp. to bail out farmers suffering from its trade wars. Now the Biden administration wants to deploy a $30 billion pot of money in the Agriculture Department to tackle climate change, support...
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2021/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(Reuters, Barcelona, 27 January 2021) The United States will produce a plan to end international financing for fossil fuel projects, its special climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday, as senior British and U.N. officials urged donor nations to meet a flagship climate finance promise. Speaking...
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2021/01/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, Debt
(SpaceIntel Report, Potomac, 11 January 2021) The U.S. Export-Import Bank is preparing a possible seizure of the Bulgaria Sat 1 telecommunications satellite, in orbit since 2017, following the owner’s inability to reimburse an Ex-Im loan of $150.5 million. The bank, which is the U.S. export-...
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2021/01/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 January 2021) The Export-Import Bank of the United States has signed off on a new supply chain finance loan guarantee that marks its first support of a domestic liquified natural gas (LNG) exporter. As part of the deal, US Exim will provide a 90% guarantee to...
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2021/01/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Reuters, Washington, 18 January 2021) The head of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) on Monday urged the Biden administration to keep pushing to neutralize Chinese export subsidies and help U.S. companies compete, building on gains made under Donald Trump. Chairman Kimberly...
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2020/12/30
Country: Italy, Japan, Korea, USA
ECAs: Export Import Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Debt, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Korea Times, Seoul, 14 December 2020) The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) said Monday it will provide $500 million (545 billion won) in financial support for a major integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. The project financing by the state-run lender is aimed at...
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2020/12/30
Country: USA
Issue: Human Rights
(Gulf News, Dubai, 13 December 2020) Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), the UAE Federal export credit company, and The Israel Foreign Trade Risks Insurance Corporation (ASHR’A) have agreed to jointly create a strategic cooperation in supporting exports, trade and investment; explore new business...
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2020/12/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
(Market Screener, Annecy, 8 December 2020) EXIM, the U.S. export credit agency that is supposed to support U.S. jobs by financing exports of U.S.-made goods, is instead considering extreme proposals to destroy requirements that tie financing to domestic content rules. Under the guise of...
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2020/12/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
Issue: Common Approaches, OECD, World Trade Organization
(The Hill, Washington, 17 December 2020) [An example of political influences on EXIM vs the OECD's purely economic free market level playing field.] One year ago, under President Trump’s leadership, Congress came together across party lines to re-authorize EXIM, our nation’s export...
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2020/12/29
Country: Ireland, Norway, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Irish Times, Dublin, 7 December 2020) Norwegian Air Shuttle secured a crucial lifeline on Monday when the High Court granted the embattled carrier and five Irish subsidiaries protection from creditors. Norwegian owes creditors, mainly aircraft lessors and banks, more than $5 billion (€4.1...
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2020/11/30
Country: Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, USA
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change
(Automotive News Europe, Detroit, 26 November 2020) Japan's state-owned export credit agency has agreed to give Nissan up to $2 billion as part of a credit agreement to help it finance car sales in the U.S. The money should help Nissan to sell cars in the world's second-biggest auto market...
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2020/10/28
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Fox News - Opinion, Washington, 17 October 2020) Kimberly Reed: The latest manifestation of China’s economic aggression is the increasing use of export financing to distort fair and free-market competition. In 2019 alone, communist China provided three times the export financing of the next-...
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2020/10/28
Country: USA
(USDA, Washington, 5 October 2020) On October 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced availability of export credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s (CCC) Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2021....
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2020/09/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
(EXIM, Washington, 9 September 2020) EXIM announced today the appointment of 17 members to its Advisory Committee, and establishment of a new EXIM Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Strategic Competition with...
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2020/09/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft, Transparency
(New York Times, Fairfax, 4 September 2020) In 1971 at the urging of banking lobbyists, the U.S. Export-Import Bank created the Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO), a private entity owned by over two dozen banks and a handful of big corporations. It has operated under consecutive 25-year...
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