(Global Trade review, London, 12 August 2020) The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) has penned a US$75mn credit guarantee facility (CGF) with state-backed Argentinian energy company YPF. US Exim will cover a loan from Bank of America as part of the deal, with YPF – the biggest...
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2020/08/30
Country: Argentina, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
2020/08/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 31 July 2020) The Canadian Football League (CFL), facing Corona virus slashed ticket sales, is seeking Canadian government assistance via a bank loan under the Business Credit Availability Program (BCAP), after the Business Development Bank of Canada and the CFL couldn...
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2020/07/31
Country: Brazil, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(Reuters, Washington, 30 July 2020) The U.S. Export-Import Bank said on Thursday its board of directors approved a $97.2 million working capital loan guarantee for Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer’s U.S.-based business jet subsidiary. The federal export credit agency said the guarantee for the...
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2020/07/30
Country: Canada, France, United Kingdom
Issue: Climate Change, G20, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Common Dreams, Portland, 6 July 2020) In an open letter to Emmanuel Macron and Rémy Rioux Common Dreams notes that France is embarking on an important diplomatic effort this November, bringing together 450 global development banks that control $2 trillion in public money. The objective? For...
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2020/07/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 22 July 2020) Canada’s oil and gas sector could receive billions of dollars in public financial aid as a result of Ottawa’s COVID-19 economic response package. The new sums are in addition to the billions of dollars in routine loans and other supports that the industry...
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2020/07/30
Country: China, USA
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Sinosure
Issue: OECD, Transparency, World Trade Organization
(TXF News, New York, 16 July 2020) The US administration [and corporate media] has drastically upped the ante in its economic war against China with its actions against Huawei. At the same time, US Exim has been charged to not only promote US exports and jobs but also counter Chinese...
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2020/07/29
Country: United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Aircraft
(JSUPRA, Sausalito, 16 July 2020) The use of Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing in the aviation industry has ebbed and flowed over the years, and it is often during turbulent times that it has proved to be most popular. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented downturn...
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2020/07/29
Country: France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
ECAs: Atradius, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, SACE S.p.A., UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Climate Change News, London, 10 July 2020) A decade after prospectors struck gas off Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, a consortium led by Total is signing contracts worth $16 billion to exploit it. One of the biggest investments in Africa, the project to extract, liquefy and export gas...
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2020/06/29
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
(Politico, Washington, 24 June 2020) Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and ranking member Brown on Tuesday called for full chamber votes on two languishing nominations for the Export-Import Bank's board of directors: Paul Shmotolokha, a Republican, and Claudia Slacik, a Democrat. “If...
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2020/06/29
Country: Canada, China
ECAs: EXIM Bank China, Export Development Canada, Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground, Friends of the Earth USA
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 15 June 2020) A recent report from Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. reveals that...
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2020/06/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Oil, Gas and Mining
(National Observer, Ottawa, 10 June 2020) International Trade Minister Mary Ng says she expects transparency and accountability from a key federal Crown corporation, after a new report concluded Canada is undermining its own climate goals by allowing EDC to support fossil fuel projects such as...
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2020/06/29
Country: USA
Issue: Aircraft
(Aviation Week, London, 15 June 2020) The U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) is back in the business of supporting Boeing and General Electric (GE)—leading aerospace and defense companies that served as the face of alleged corporate welfare to anti-bank critics in recent years. Last week, EXIM said...
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2020/06/29
Country: China, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, USA
Issue: Aircraft
(Reuters, Paris, 9 June 2020) France launched what it billed a 15-billion-euro ($17 billion) support plan for its aerospace industry on Tuesday, accelerating research on a green jetliner and warning 100,000 French jobs could be lost due to the coronavirus crisis. The plans - which include 7...
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2020/06/29
Country: Canada, Saudi Arabia
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Arms Trade, Human Rights
(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 7 June 2020) The federal government tapped a seldom-used account at Ottawa’s export-financing agency last fall to extend $650-million of support to the US defence contractor building combat vehicles for Saudi Arabia, aid that came as Riyadh was falling behind on...
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2020/06/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Reuters, Winnipeg/Toronto, 4 June 2020) Canadian oil producers sideswiped by economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic have received no federal loans from EDC, seven weeks after the first lending program was announced, government and industry officials said on Thursday. The large-employer...
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