SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will expel two Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain that the British government has blamed on Moscow, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday.
Daily Archives: March 26, 2018
Daily briefing: Russian diplomats expelled, Carlyle’s victory, US stocks surge
US leads diplomatic offensive to isolate Kremlin for alleged role in poisoning of ex-spy
Republicans press for F-35 fighter jet sale to Taiwan
Philippines says has no proof yet on rights groups links with drug lords
Kenyan government tries to deport opposition politician again – lawyer
Asia stocks follow US shares up as trade war fears ease
Earlier Wall Street had rallied on optimistic comments coming out of both Washington and Beijing.
South Korea says watching China closely as senior North Korean visits
Mapping Where Global Tariffs Are Highest And Lowest
Last week, China announced that it would retaliate against U.S. tariffs by imposing its own duties on a range of American products including apples, port and steel pipes. Last Thursday, President Trump signed an executive memorandum that could lead to tariffs being imposed on up to $60 billion of Chinese products, a move which is designed to penalize China for alleged intellectual property theft. Beijing responded that it while it does not want a trade war, it is “absolutely not afraid of one”. Late last week, stock markets dropped sharply.
The Trump Administrations’s move to impose tariffs on Chinese imports as well as steel and aluminum imports in general, is a break with long-standing U.S. trade policy. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, hHistorically, previous presidents have been in favor of lower tariffs and the removal of barriers to facilitate trade.
Today, the U.S. applies a weighted average tariff of 1.6 percent on its imports according to the World Bank and this is one of the lowest rates worldwide, equivalent to the EU and similar to Japan.
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The World Bank’s tariff rates refer to 2016 and are weighted by product import shares without taking specific trade deals like NAFTA into account.
Although most developed countries have been pushing for lower trade tariffs, they are still very high in some parts of the world.
For example, India imposes weighted average tariffs of 6.3 percent while in China, the rate is 3.5 percent.
African countries have some of the highest rates with Gabon standing out at 16.93 percent.
The Bahamas is the country with the highest weighted-average tariff worldwide at 18.6 percent.
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook’s Mess?
Can Zuckerberg fix the FB’s current breach of trust? Facebook is likely to implement a number of voluntary policy changes that will not unduly crimp its successful business model, and may even help Zuckerberg overcome the corporate myopia that has exposed the company to reputational risk in the past