Pressure is mounting on the UK government to reconsider its position on intellectual property rights in ongoing free trade talks with India. Academics, parliamentarians, healthcare professionals, and charitable organisations have… read more →
The Business Research Company’s research on the trade credit insurance market forecasts the global trade credit insurance market size to grow from $10.3 billion in 2022 to $11.2 billion in… read more →
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, said it will provide Sri Lanka a $400 million cross-currency swap facility to help fund essential imports. Three private banks,… read more →
$1.4 trillion dollars. Enough money to make anyone pause. That’s the current worth of the global pharmaceutical industry. The COVID-19 pandemic had far-reaching negative ramifications, but it was also a time of notable growth for the pharmaceutical sector.
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A new report has found that the semiconductor, electronics, and pharmaceuticals sectors are leading the way in the digital transformation of manufacturing. The Manufacturing Transformation Insights Report 2022, published yesterday… read more →
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a $9 billion vaccine initiative—the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX)—offering rapid and equitable support to its developing members as they procure and… read more →
Jeddah- 02 November 2020 –The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) intensifies its partnership with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) to support African Countries to fight COVID-19… read more →
The agreement will ensure ambitious cooperation in political, security and foreign matters with Ukraine, while also securing continued preferential trade for businesses and consumers. The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson… read more →
Cairo, 29 September 2020: – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the pan-African multilateral EXIM bank, announces $100 million financing to enable its Member States to procure COVID-19 related medical resources through the… read more →
The new initiative aims to harmonise African standards for pharmaceuticals and medical devices thereby enhancing intra-African trade, reducing substandard counterfeit products, and building resilient regional health systems. (Jeddah, Cairo, Nairobi,… read more →
US$10 million ITFC intervention to tackle shortages in emergency laboratory and personal protective equipment in the fight against coronavirus (Jeddah, KSA, 26 August 2020) – The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation… read more →
The UK’s International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and India’s Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry Piyush Goyal agreed to explore opportunities for expanding and deepening our trade relationship. This… read more →
The WTO issued on 6 July the latest edition of its annual publication World Tariff Profiles, which provides comprehensive information on the tariffs and non-tariff measures imposed by over 170… read more →
The UK’s response to new security laws in Hong Kong and the decision to offer a route to citizenship for almost three million Hongkongers has been met frostily by China.… read more →