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Hungary Overpowered – EU to Send $22B to Ukraine

Armstrong Economics 25 Mar 2025
... bloc before 2030. In the meantime, Ukraine would like to enjoy the benefits that come along with being an EU member such as duty-free trade deals that allow them to undercut other members in the bloc.
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Red carpet for Asean visitors the right step

South China Morning Post 24 Mar 2025
Easing visa formalities for frequent business travellers from this important trading bloc will serve Hong Kong well ... .
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Keir Starmer holds talks with Trump amid last-ditch push for trade deal to dodge US ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
Keir Starmer has held talks with Donald Trump on a trade agreement as the UK makes a last-ditch bid to dodge more tariffs ... The EU appears to be the main target, with the president raging that the bloc was created to 'screw' America.
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Somalia joins Afreximbank as it seeks to boost Intra-African trade and economic growth

Business Ghana 24 Mar 2025
Afreximbank's visit to Mogadishu was timely as it came just after Somalia joined the East African Community regional trade bloc in 2024, and successfully completed the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief process.
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Crypto Braces For April 2 — The Most Crucial Day Of The Year

NewsBTC 24 Mar 2025
Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement will reportedly focus on “reciprocal tariffs” targeting specific countries or blocs deemed to maintain unfair trade barriers ... Citing trade disparities with nations ...
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Here are the countries, auto companies most vulnerable to Trump's 'reciprocal' tariffs

Detroit news 24 Mar 2025
vehicles at 10% and has high value-added taxes across most of its members — could prompt Trump to target the bloc more harshly than its North American and Asian trading partners ... trade relationships." ... auto trade.
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INDIA must appear to be a ‘bloc and not un-bloc’ itself in public domain: Sibal

The Siasat Daily 23 Mar 2025
INDIA bloc still strong but internal discussion required ... INDIA bloc constituents, particularly the Congress and the AAP, were involved in sharp exchanges and traded barbs especially in the Delhi Assembly polls.
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Europe and Gulf forge stronger energy and security alliances

Blitz 23 Mar 2025
The GCC, as a bloc, remains one of her key economic targets ... Currently, the EU is the GCC’s second-largest trade partner, with trade between the two blocs reaching €170 billion ($185 billion) in 2023.
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Philippines to ‘cope better’ with trade pressures amid US-China tensions—Moody’s Ratings

Manila Bulletin 23 Mar 2025
Moody’s was referring to fragmentation policies, or trade blocs’ actions disrupting the interconnectedness of the global trading system, “likely” reducing business in the region—“thus lower demand for exports.”.
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UK in last-ditch push to dodge Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs: Rachel Reeves says trade with ...

The Daily Mail 23 Mar 2025
Britain is making a last-ditch bid to dodge Donald Trump's latest tariffs salvo as Rachel Reeves insisted trade with the US is already 'balanced' ... trading partners ... 'I believe in free and open trade.
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Rolls-Royce explores shifting engine-making to US to counter Donald Trump tariffs

The Daily Telegraph 23 Mar 2025
Taken as a bloc, the EU is the UK’s largest trading partner, buying 41pc of its exports in goods and services combined. The US, which is the UK’s largest individual trading partner, buys 22pc of the UK’s exports.
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Cyprus Business Now: weekly wrap-up

CyprusMail 23 Mar 2025
“The EU has seen a widening GDP gap with the US,” Antoniades said, adding that in previous years, the bloc benefited from a favourable global environment, trade agreements, and security guarantees under the US umbrella.
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Europe turns to the Gulf to strengthen energy, security ties

Arab News 22 Mar 2025
In recent weeks, von der Leyen has agreed a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc, including Brazil and Argentina, in South America; kick-started trade talks in India; and visited South Africa, the host of this year’s G20 summit.
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Labour pledges to ‘tear down’ barriers after new figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn ...

AOL 22 Mar 2025
... the UK’s total trade with the EU was 5 per cent “below the level seen in 2018”, before the UK left the bloc, once inflation and precious metals were excluded.
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Will the US dollar really be able to keep its crown forever?

Cryptopolitan 22 Mar 2025
Warburg saw how London ran the show with trade credit and how the U.S ... By the 1920s, dollar-denominated trade acceptances were beating London’s ... also supported Europe’s trade bloc and set up the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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