U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met this week with Democratic lawmakers to try to resolve their concerns about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement as Republicans increased pressure to get the deal passed by the end of 2019.
The head of the country’s second-biggest railway remained bullish about the coming year despite currently facing lower freight volumes, trade tensions and a sluggish global economy.
Biofuels groups have filed a petition in the U.S. court of appeals in Washington against the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging the agency’s process for granting refineries exemptions to the nation’s biofuel blending mandates, the groups said Wednesday.
China should not bet on its state-owned enterprises to win the trade war with the United States since they will not be able to achieve hi-tech breakthroughs, Chinese pro-market academics warned, saying they must instead rely more on the private sector to gain an upper hand.
The general manager of Bogota Metro, Mr Andrés Escobar Uribe, announced on October 17 that Apca Transmimetro, comprising China Harbor Engineering Company and Xi’An Metro Company, has been chosen for a $US 5.16bn contract to design, build, operate and maintain Line 1 of the Bogota metro.