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THE IMPOSITION of tariffs on American imports of steel and aluminium has prompted anger in Mexico, which is the largest US aluminium buyer and the second largest buyer of American steel. However, with Mexico also a major exporter of these metals to the USA (USD1.7 billion’s worth of steel and iron was sent north in 2017 and USD1 billion’s worth of Mexican aluminium was sold to the US last year), the tariffs will harm Mexico’s economy.…

THE AMERICAN clothing sector has attacked the imposition of tariffs by the US government on European Union (EU), Mexican and Canadian steel and aluminium exports, which has prompted the EU to move ahead with imposing retaliatory duties on USA-made clothing.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has moved ahead with its plans to impose temporary safeguard duties on imports into the EU of USA-made clothes, as a reaction to the levying of American import duties on aluminium and steel imports, announced yesterday (May 31).…

THE USA food industry is under fire with the European Union (EU), Canada and Mexico all announcing plans to impose protective duties on American exports following today’s decision by the Trump administration to levy tariffs on streel and aluminium exports from these three key trading partners.…

TECHNICAL textile markets can be driven and shaped by a range of forces – from natural disasters, to technological change, economic developments and political movements. In the case of the USA, at present, the technical textile market and industry is being moved by all these influences at the same time.…

Diversity – a theme very close to Mohamed Irshad’s heart – could not be embodied by a more appropriate person than the affable, youthful-looking 34-year-old head of global internal audit – the Americas, at French multinational Schneider Electric. Irshad is an Indian national who was born and raised in Dubai, studied in India, has lived in Paris and is now based in Canada.…

Are students and academics free to speak their mind on university and college campuses in north America? And how should higher education institutions respond when one person’s free speech silences or harms another? These issues have been highlighted at the fourth annual Worldviews Lecture at the University of Toronto, at which University World News was a media sponsor.…

AIR Canada has joined with other civil aviation organisations and companies, plus academics, to stage a biofuel blend demonstration project at Toronto’s Lester B Pearson International Airport. The Canadian carrier claims it avoided emitting 160 tonnes of carbon on 22 domestic flights during April 22’s international Earth Day through introducing 230,000 litres of sustainable biofuel blended within the airport’s multi-user fuel supply system.…

WHILE global politics, whether through the protectionism of Donald Trump, or the uncertainty of Brexit, have the potential to chill the global minerals industry, a recent major conference in Canada showed that market demand can often outweigh concerns about regulation.

A noticeably more positive outlook was evident this year, as the global mining community gathered in Toronto for the 2018 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, trade show and investors exchange.…

WHILE United States President Donald Trump’s imposition of import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium on March 8 included a waiver for Canadian and Mexican exporters, his administration continues to stress this relief could be temporary.

In the March 8 presidential proclamation imposing the steel duties, Trump stressed “ongoing discussions with these countries” alongside his decision “to exempt steel articles imports from these countries from the tariff, at least at this time”. …