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Archives for May 2013

May 31, 2013 by PKR

Pro-nationalization protesters shut down Kyrgyzstan mine

Protesters are escalating their demonstrations at Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor gold mine, operated by Canada-based Centerra Gold. After closing the mine and cutting a road to it, protesters have now sabotaged the mine’s electricity supply, according to the AP. The protesters allegedly want the extremely valuable mine to be nationalized. Kumtor, which accounts for about 12 percent of the […]

Filed Under: Foreign Investment, Uncategorized Tagged With: Centerra, Gold, Kyrgyzstan, nationalization, protests

May 31, 2013 by PKR

European Parliament moves forward on transparency legislation

The European Parliament is moving toward finalizing a new law that would force mining companies to disclose all details of payments to state and sub-state governments. Large extractive companies dealing with oil, gas and minerals will be obliged to disclose full details of their payments to national governments for every project that they operate, under […]

Filed Under: Foreign Investment Tagged With: Europe, Mining, transparency

May 30, 2013 by PKR

Will Ethiopia’s new dam dry up good will with Egypt and Sudan?

Ethiopia has started work on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive project which, when completed, will house the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa. The dam, which will deviate the course of the Blue Nile, has raised a great deal of concern in Egypt and Sudan. Egypt gets well over half of its water […]

Filed Under: International Disputes/Dimensions of Sovereignty Tagged With: Egypt, Ethiopia, Nile, Sudan, Water

May 30, 2013 by PKR

Japan and Russia move closer to peace treaty, but why now?

Japan and Russia never concluded a peace treaty at the end of the Second World War. The USSR’s seizure of a group of islands (called the Southern Kurils in Russia, and the Northern Territories in Japan) in the war’s final days became a rift in bilateral relations that no pair of leaders since then has […]

Filed Under: Boundary Disputes, International Disputes/Dimensions of Sovereignty Tagged With: demarcation, Japan, Russia

May 28, 2013 by PKR

Federal Circuit Authorizes Commerce to Consider Evidence Regarding Circumvention

In a nonprecedential per curiam order issued Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the Department of Commerce a voluntary remand to consider evidence of potential fraud discovered subsequent to the completion of the 2008-09 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from China. The Court rejected arguments from an exporter […]

Filed Under: International Trade, News Tagged With: antidumping, CAFC, Cambodia, China, CIT, import fraud, International Trade, seafood trade

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