Questions tagged [trade]
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Did Iran send 400 ballistic missiles to Russia?
Reuters still has this 'exclusive' story up from Feb 21, 2024:
Iran has provided Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, six sources told Reuters, deepening the ...
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Did (someone in) Turkey ship 16 tons of "explosive materials" to Hamas, disguised as gypsum?
FDD:
Israeli customs authorities revealed on September 14 [2023] that their agents intercepted 16 tons of explosive material on its way from Turkey to the Gaza Strip in July. [...]
According to the ...
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Is the USA the largest trading partner of Vietnam nowadays?
According to Seymour Hersh, the fall of Saigon was irrelevant (wrt. to containing China etc.) because
We're the largest trading partner of Vietnam now.
By "we" he surely means the USA. Is ...
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Did the EU prohibit the transport of Russian fertilizer to non-EU countries, so that only the EU could purchase it?
Reportedly Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia
accused EU officials of “selfishness, cynicism and hypocrisy” for prohibiting European carriers from transporting Russian ...
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Does China receive billions of dollars of foreign aid and special WTO status for being a "developing country"?
According to this video, "China Just Lost the Space Race!",
China is a so called "developing country" which has for decades been receiving billions of dollars of foreign aid and ...
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Does the Russian 300mm "guided" rocket 9M949 use gyroscopes made in the USA?
One Ukrainian website seem to claim that:
Керована 300-мм ракета 9М949 ракетного комплексу "Торнадо-С": оптоволоконний гіроскоп для інерційної навігації. Виробництво - США.
in google ...
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Did stock trader, Mark Minervini, make 33,554% from 1994-1999 years?
This 2020 Business Insider article claims that author and stock-trader, Mark Minervini made a
compounded total return of 33,554% from 1994 to 1999, which equates to roughly 220% a year
This seems ...
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Did the USSR government trade 17 submarines and three warships for three million dollars in Pepsi?
According to this video on Soviet Russia, the Russians traded submarines and warships to the Pepsico company for three million dollars worth of Pepsi. Is that factually accurate? The video does not ...
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Is only 13% of the UK economy and only 8% of its businesses involved with european Union trade?
CAPX recently published a pro-Brexit opinion piece by John Longworth who headed a pro-Brexit pressure group. He argued that the UK were being held to ransom and were being treated like a "vassal ...
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Were masks imported to China in Jan-Feb resold to Mexico at 20-30 times the price in March?
Global News reports
In March, the masks sold to China in January and February were being sold back to Mexico at 20 to 30 times the price, according to [Jorge] Guajardo [Mexico’s former ambassador ...
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Have any financial traders gotten a large shipment of a commodity sent to themselves by mistake?
Certain oil futures contracts went negative in April 2020 over the difficulty of storing crude oil. With this came a resurgence of stories of hapless traders receiving the actual commodities that were ...
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Did US prohibit the export of the mere description of a cryptographic algorithm?
A Wikipedia page says that in the US
regulations were introduced as part of munitions controls which required licenses to export cryptographic methods (and even their description)
What concrete ...
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Did China import 2 billion masks earlier this year to control Covid-19?
I'm wondering if there's not a typo in a recent paper that says that
to control the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government imported more than 2.0 billion facemasks between 24 Jan 2020 and 29 Feb ...
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Did Senators Sanders and Warren support Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum?
A PIIE article states
Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren strongly oppose free trade pacts such as TPP and USMCA, support Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, and are intensely ...
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Was Japan required to open its semiconductor patents to the US in a 1989 "deal"?
In a question on politics.SE the following snippet from a South China Morning Post article was quoted:
This was followed by a second five-year semiconductor deal in 1991, in which Japan agreed to ...