THROUGH THE last week, senior U.S. and Chinese officials have intensively engaged with each other in Beijing along two parallel fronts. A Strategic and Economic Dialogue, involving months of preparation and hundreds of participants on both sides, concluded with some modest agreements on opening China’s securities markets and liberalizing U.S. export controls. But far more important were the ad hoc and tension-filled negotiations about the fate of Chen Guangcheng , the activist given refuge in the U.S. Embassy days before the arrival of the U.S. delegation. Read full article > >

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US prosecutors charge two Taiwanese nationals with attempting to export US military technology – for the alleged benefit of the Chinese government.

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TAMPA — President Obama promoted hemispheric trade as essential to America’s economic future in a speech here Friday that foreshadowed his agenda for a weekend summit in Colombia. Heading to a meeting with the hemisphere’s heads of state, Obama told an audience of dock workers and business owners gathered at the Port of Tampa that Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that has weathered the global downturn better than most, are a market of huge opportunity for U.S. exports. Read full article > >

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TAMPA — President Obama promoted hemispheric trade as essential to America’s economic future in a speech here Friday that foreshadowed his agenda for a weekend summit in Colombia. Heading to a meeting with the hemisphere’s heads of state, Obama told an audience of dock workers and business owners gathered at the Port of Tampa that Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that has weathered the global downturn better than most, are a market of huge opportunity for U.S. exports. Read full article > >

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The UK’s trade deficit widened to £3.4bn in February from £2.5bn in January as exports of goods to non-EU countries dropped, figures show.

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UK trade gap widened in February

Big business groups helped Republicans win the House in 2010, but the Export-Import Bank, which finances business exports, is in the cross hairs of the conservative representatives.

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A Business Bet on the G.O.P. May Be Backfiring

Sallie James was born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence planned what happened 30 years later: She moved to Washington. She studies trade policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, and her report “ Time to X Out the Ex-Im Bank ” illustrates how corporate welfare metastasizes as government tries to rectify the inevitable inequities of its constantly multiplying favoritisms. And while picking American winners, the Export-Import Bank creates American losers. Read full article > >

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Export-Import Bank’s damage to American firms

International sanctions on Iran are starting to pinch, and Tehran is scrambling to hang on to buyers for its crude oil exports. In January, China, South Korea and Singapore sharply cut their oil purchases from Iran. Last month, Shipping Corp. of India canceled an Iranian shipment because its European insurers refused to provide coverage for the tanker, according to Lloyd’s List. And Japanese oil refiners have asked for clauses to be added to oil-purchase contracts so they can back out if they can’t obtain tanker insurance. Read full article > >

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Noose tightens around Iranian oil exports

As oil exports to U.K., France halted.

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U.N. Inspectors Return to Iran

Officials in Tehran plan to pre-emptively halt oil exports to six countries, Iranian state media reported, in response to the West’s economic sanctions.

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Iran has stopped oil exports to six European states in retaliation for European Union sanctions imposed on the Islamic state’s key export, the country’s English language Press TV reported on Wednesday.

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. Another newspaper quoted a senior commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard force as saying Tehran’s leadership has decided to order the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic oil route, if the country’s petroleum exports are blocked. Revolutionary Guard ground forces also staged war games in eastern Iran in an apparent display of resolve against U.S. forces just over the border in Afghanistan. Read full article > >

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BEIJING – A top Chinese government economist confirmed Thursday what a slew of recent economic data had already shown — that China’s long-booming economy has slowed dramatically, and the era of double-digit growth is now officially a thing of the past. “We believe China is nearing the end of the period of high economic growth,” said Yu Bin, director general of macroeconomic research for the ruling State Council’s research center. “What we need is moderate and reasonable economic growth.” Read full article > >

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The UK’s trade deficit narrowed in October, as the value of exports hits a record high, official figures show.

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UK exports hit a record £26.5bn

China warns of “severe challenges” to its exports due to falling demand in the US and Europe and will target developing markets.

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