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US tariff pause offers breathing room for Indian exports

bno - Mumbai Office April 10, 2025

Even as the world reacts to a 90-day pause on tariffs for most countries, the impact of possible future US tariffs on Indian exports varies significantly across sectors.

Southeast Asia's leading economies ponder possible US tariffs as 90-day pause takes effect

bno - Surabaya Office April 10, 2025

When the US administration under President Donald Trump announced sweeping import tariffs on ASEAN nations, it triggered an immediate ripple across Southeast Asia’s export-dependent economies.

TULGAN: Of Cheese and Chelnoki, the return of shuttle trading

Joshua B. Tulgan in Dubai April 9, 2025

The Trump Administration’s clumsy introduction of punitive tariffs recalls the days when similarly capricious sanctions wreaked havoc over Moscow food supplies that ended up in a shuttle trade in cheese.

UKRAINE REMONT: INTERVIEW – "Ukraine will boom once reconstruction starts" – EBRD Ukraine head

bne IntelliNews April 8, 2025

In an exclusive interview with bne IntelliNews, EBRD’s Ukraine head Arvid Tuerkner discusses the bank’s activities in Ukraine, and why he has great hopes for the country’s postwar recovery.

Ukraine's costly return to gas imports

Jamie Onslow in Kyiv April 8, 2025

Russian attacks against Ukraine’s natural gas production facilities have precipitated yet another energy security crisis for the beleaguered country.

Measuring impact of US tariffs on Central Asia and South Caucasus

Eurasianet April 7, 2025

Little near-term pain, but lots of uncertainty about future.

UKRAINE REMONT: The battle to build: signs of recovery in Ukraine's construction industry

Jamie Onslow in Kyiv April 7, 2025

Ukraine’s construction industry is resilient as it gears up for the restoration of the country’s decimated housing and infrastructure. But the sector has a mountain to climb as it contends with ongoing war and shortages of material and labour.

Russia to capitalise on Africa’s growing energy demand

bne IntelliNews April 7, 2025

Russia has been intensifying its efforts to strengthen energy partnerships with African countries, indicating a broader strategy to enhance its geopolitical influence across the continent.

Trump is an amateur, and his maths mistakes mean his tariffs four times too high

Ben Aris in Berlin April 7, 2025

President Trump’s Liberation Day tariff formula makes no economic sense and includes some basic mathematical errors that means the tariff rates are four times higher than they should be, according to several economic experts.

EU joins ‘Klondike’ rush for Central Asia critical minerals as bloc and region upgrade relations

bne IntelliNews April 6, 2025

Kazakhstan boasts 19 out of 34 types of critical raw materials seen as essential to EU economy, while the five 'stans' have 40% of the world’s reserves of manganese.

Is South Korea’s political turmoil being underwritten by Beijing?

bno - Taipei Bureau April 6, 2025

With Japan, South Korea and China working closer than ever to address US tariffs on three of the world’s leading economies, anti-American agents in Asia are undoubtedly working behind the scenes to further reshape the regional balance of power.

Jury remains out on Tokayev’s “de-oligarchisation” of Kazakhstan

Emma Collet in Almaty April 5, 2025

Government talks of having recovered ill-gotten gains amounting to a few billion dollars. Sceptics think it should have a few billion more to boast about by now.

Romanian geothermal expert Green Tech International has dual listing in sight after Bucharest IPO

Iulian Ernst in Bucharest April 5, 2025

Company aims to triple its active geothermal capacity, double installed capacity to 1 GWt by 2028 and expand into downstream business lines, COO Dragoș Gavriluță tells bne IntelliNews.

Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs will accelerate BRICS bloc trade cooperation

bne IntelliNews April 4, 2025

BRICS avowedly seeks to challenge Western-dominated institutions of global economic governance, as well as to displace the US dollar from its entrenched role in the world economy. Its job just got easier thanks to Trump.

US tariffs could undermine Viktor Orban's dream of golden economic era with US

bne IntelliNews April 4, 2025

Hungary's heavily export-oriented, manufacturing-driven economy is among the more vulnerable EU member states in the transatlantic trade war, according to analysts.

The rise of war-hardened Balkan crime groups in South America’s cocaine market

Clare Nuttall in Glasgow April 3, 2025

Global Initiative report reveals organised crime groups from the Western Balkans have firmly embedded themselves in South America’s cocaine trade.

COMMENT: EU’s foreign policy chief Kallas’ releases a white paper on European Defence sector plans

Ben Aris in Berlin April 2, 2025

EU foreign policy chief and former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas recently unveiled a controversial White Paper on the “Future of European Defence: Readiness 2030”, but it received a very mixed reception from EU member states.

EU-Central Asia: Preparing for first-of-its-kind summit aimed at bolstering trade

Eurasianet April 1, 2025

Caution evident in build-up to gathering.

INTERVIEW: "It's risky to invest in Ukraine now. But it's more risky not to invest" – AmCham Ukraine

Jamie Onslow in Kyiv April 1, 2025

An interview with the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine

Russian household well-being reaches highest level in a decade – BOFIT

bne IntelliNews April 1, 2025

The well-being of Russian households has reached its highest level in a decade, a survey carried out by the Bank of Finland institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT) found.

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