Canada’s Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, yesterday announced that Canada will participate as a third party in a World Trade Organization panel on China’s export restrictions on certain raw materials. The panel was established at the request of the United States, the European Union and Mexico on December 21, 2009.
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Countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia are facing significant reversals of their hard-earned macroeconomic gains of recent years as the global crisis spreads to the region, with growth coming to a virtual halt and financial vulnerabilities on the rise, according to the International Monetary Fund’s Spring 2009 Regional Economic Outlook (REO).
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The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first review of Ukraine’s economic performance under the 2-year Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), and approved the immediate release of the second tranche under the arrangement equivalent to SDR 1.9 billion (about US$2.8 billion). This will bring total disbursements under the SBA to SDR 4.9 [...]