Reuters reports that Kurdistan has begun shipping oil to international markets in independent export deals that some see as paving the way to greater Kurdish autonomy. The move is likely to further enrage the central government in ...
Tags: Ali al-Dabbagh, Ashti Hawrami, KRG, Kurdistan, oil contracts, oil exports
Reuters cited Mr Abdul Kareem Luaibi oil minister of Iraq as saying that top oil trader Vitol has apologised to the Iraqi government for buying Kurdish oil that was exported via Turkey without Baghdad's permission. Baghdad is in dispute ...
Over the weekend we saw a number of articles make reference to a China Daily article titled “Smuggling blights rare earth industry“, whose authors report that a “senior official from the General Administration of ...
Tags: rare earth industry, rare earth, rare earths export, rare earth products
Customs and Border Protection has seized more than 10 million cigarettes, illegally imported into Australia. On Wednesday, 28 November Customs and Border Protection officers examined a sea cargo container, said to contain ceramic tiles. ...
Tags: Customs, cigarette, illegal import, Australian import
The Minister, Sergio Diaz-Granados, said that measures announced by President Juan Manuel Sntos, aim to boost the textile and apparel sector in Colombia. The President’s words came within the context of "Weaving Colombia," a major ...
Tags: textile, apparel, Weaving Colombia, weave
Reuters reports that LUKoil,Russian's biggest non-state oil producer,which is believed to be considering buying ExxonMobil's stake in the West Qurna-1 oil field,has bought oil from Kurdistan in defiance of Baghdad. Baghdad has long ...
Tags: LUKoil, ExxonMobil, oil producer, Kurdistan
A complaint has been filed against a Cebu-based trader and her customs broker for allegedly attempting to illegally import P30 million worth of float glass from China. Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon himself led the formal filing of the ...
Tags: market view, float glass
First, it was in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Starting from the late 1990s, many Uganda dealers have raided the rich forests of that volatile eastern part of that country and cut down trees in a smuggling campaign that ...
Tags: market view, timber