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2007/03/05
(NewsBlaze, Folsom CA, 8 March 2007) China has terminated its central bank program that allowed a select group of large exporters to take advantage of discounted loans unavailable to many other companies. The United States and several other countries had challenged the program as a prohibited... more
2014/04/30
Issue: World Trade Organization
(Prague Daily Monitor, Prague, 28 April 2014) Czech Export Guarantee and Insurance Company (EGAP) received a subsidy of Kc1bn (US$50.5 million) a year from the Finance Ministry in 2011 and 2012 despite having enough own funds, according to findings by the Supreme Audit Office (NKU)... "At that...
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2023/10/29
Issue: Climate Change, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Financial Times, Brussels, 29 October 2023) The UK and EU will push the world’s richest countries to end subsidies for foreign oil and gas operations and coal mining at a closed-door OECD meeting next month, according to people familiar with the matter. The proposal to cut off the biggest...
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2005/05/07
May 13, 2005 (Source: ECA Watch) — Over 20 international water-rights groups, in addition to 18 ECA Watch campaign member groups, have signed a recent letter to the OECD, expressing grave concerns about the proposed extension of subsidies under the Arrangement on Export Credits for renewable energy... more
2009/07/07
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 July 2009) Short-term export credits have generally been deemed "marketable", and therefore under “normal circumstances”, official ECAs are prohibited from supporting short-term cover for exports to OECD and some other countries. However, since the outset of the financial... more
2023/09/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 4 August 2023) Ottawa has taken a major step forward towards ending another significant component of its fossil fuel support. It announced last week a policy that makes Canada the first G20 country to publish a plan for delivering on the group’s 2009 commitment to phase...
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2009/08/02
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 27 August 2009) Preliminary approval of a US$2 billion letter of commitment for loans or loan guarantees to Brazil's Petrobas for the purchase of US offshore oil drilling equipment has caused quite a stir in Washington. The offshore drilling debate in the US pits environmental... more
2006/09/09
(Defacto, Yerevan, 22 September 2006) In a move that demonstrates the potential geopolitical impact of ECA financing, the US Senate Banking Committee has added an amendment to the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Bill which would prohibit American involvement in a proposed Caucasus railroad... more
2017/01/31
Issue: OECD, World Trade Organization
(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 January 2017) On January 18, 2017, the first day of a 2 day special meeting of a joint OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and OECD Export Credit Working Group (ECG)...
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2011/04/01
(ECA Watch, 30 April 2011) The WTO has released a series of documents on recent Doha development negotiations which point to conflicts between non-OECD and OECD countries over WTO priviledged export credit subsidies for the latter.
2010/10/08
(EC, Brussels, 25 October 2010) The European Commission has published a report on the legal framework for human rights and the environment applicable to EU companies operating outside the Union. Written by a University of Edinburgh team, the report is an important input for further EU... more
2010/02/03
(WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor, Amsterdam, 29 January 2010) Despite a reluctance to reverse Germany's overall moratorium on nuclear energy development pending May elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the federal government has signaled the reversal of exclusion criteria for nuclear exports in... more
2006/09/05
(PRNewswire, 7 Sep 2006, Washington) The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has extended its offer to reduce exposure fees by a third on asset-backed financings of new U.S.-manufactured large commercial aircraft for buyers in countries that ratify and implement the Cape Town... more
2015/06/30
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Brussels, 12 June 2015) Talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidies ended in stalemate as Japan, the biggest user of the aid, led calls for more time in defiance of this week's G7 pledge on fossil fuel subsidies, sources said. The Paris-based Organization for...
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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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