Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines has thus far done an impressive job of managing the tender and bidding process for a number of mineral blocs. The government of Afghanistan announced its preferred bidders for three of its four current mineral tenders with a consortium backed by City of London banker Mr Ian Hannam, former BHP Billiton […]
Water shortages are a fact of life for billions of people around the world today. The sister-crises of drought and desertification are expected to be major drivers of conflict and state instability in the coming decades. As Afghanistan struggles to secure its space and to evolve from an aid-based economy to a self-sufficient mineral/hydrocarbon producer, […]
The Court of International Trade today issued a remand for the Commerce Department to reconsider the surrogate market economy country used to calculate duties in the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from China, a nonmarket economy. Picard Kentz & Rowe brought the case on behalf of the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action […]
The Court of International Trade today issued a remand for the Commerce Department to reconsider the labor rate used to calculate duties in the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from Vietnam. Picard Kentz & Rowe brought the case on behalf of the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee, an association of domestic […]
(Reuters) – A Chinese firm has started extracting oil from the Amu Darya basin in northern Afghanistan, mining officials said, a key moment in the country’s quest to pay its own way. Afghanistan signed a 25-year contract with National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) last December covering drilling and a planned refinery in the northern provinces of […]