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Members of gang Kraze Baryé in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in April 2024. Stopping the flow of guns to Haiti would likely have an immediate impact on the bloodshed, according to police and human rights experts. “We have to cut the gangs’ weapons supply lines. Vitel'homme Innocent walks with armed members of Kraze Baryé in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in April 2024. CNNAn ‘iron river’ from the United StatesThe guns Haiti’s gangs wield are a mix of stolen and smuggled, and the United States is by far the main source of the latter, according to UN experts.

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"There's increasing evidence that the cyclical upturn in the global electronics sector is driving a bottoming-out of global trade and China's trade data is the latest sign," said Xu Tianchen, senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Reuters GraphicsSouth Korean exports to China, a leading indicator of China's imports, fell at their slowest in 11 months in September. Global trade activities, represented by the Baltic Dry Index, also reported notable growth in September. However, Lv Daliang, spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs, said at a press conference earlier on Friday that China's trade still faces a complex and severe external environment. China's crude oil imports in September grew nearly 14% from a year earlier, while copper imports fell 5.8% year-on-year.

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August throughput was also up from July's 14.87 million bpd. Year-to-date throughput gained 11.9% from a year earlier to 491.4 million tons, or 14.76 million bpd. The NBS data on Friday also showed China's domestic crude oil production in August gained 3.1% from a year earlier to 17.47 million metric tons, or 4.11 million bpd. The year-to-date volume rose 2.1% from a year earlier to 139.85 million tons, or 4.2 million bpd. Natural gas production last month rose 6.3% from a year earlier to 18.1 billion cubic metres (bcm), the NBS said.

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☆ U.S., Taiwan Move Closer to Trade, Investment Agreement
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Joyu Wang | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met with U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert, a Republican from California, in Taipei this week. TAIPEI—The U.S. and Taiwan moved a step closer toward a bilateral trade and investment initiative, with both sides signaling progress in the talks at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office on Thursday released a summary of proposed texts covering customs administration and trade facilitation, good regulatory practices, services domestic regulation, anticorruption, and small and midsize enterprises. A similar statement was released by Taiwan’s trade office at the same time. The five topics are among a dozen trade areas that the two sides previously agreed to negotiate.

☆ Pressure on China’s factories grows as U.S. demand falls
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

China News Service | China News Service | Getty ImagesBEIJING — For some factories in China, it's not full steam ahead after the end of zero-Covid. The official Lunar New Year holiday in China ended Jan. 27, but the travel period runs until Feb. 15. He expects U.S. consumer demand to pick up later this year. China's exports to the U.S. barely grew in 2022, and the U.S. economy is expected to slow further in 2023. watch nowWhen asked by CNBC in January, China's customs administration acknowledged the pressure on China's exports from slowing external demand, and noted rising risks of a global recession.

☆ China’s exports slump less than expected in December
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Cargo ships dock at the container terminal in Lianyungang Port, East China's Jiangsu province, Dec 7, 2022. BEIJING — China's exports and imports fell less than expected in December, the customs administration said Friday. China's exports fell by 9.9% in December from a year ago in U.S.-dollar terms, slightly better than the 10% decline forecast by a Reuters' poll. China's imports fell by 7.5% year-on-year in December in U.S.-dollar terms, also better than the 9.8% decline predicted by Reuters. Strong exports bolstered China's economy in the last two years.

☆ China delays release of key economic data amid party congress
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The highly unusual delay comes amid the week-long congress of the ruling Communist Party, a twice-a-decade event that is an especially sensitive time in China. He said the delay was unlikely to affect market sentiment as most preliminary economic data pointed to a pick-up in recovery in the third quarter. The delays followed the unexplained delay in the release of September's trade data by the General Administration of Customs, which had been due out on Friday. The trade data was not released on Monday and calls to the customs administration seeking comment went unanswered. At the last party congress, in 2017, third quarter GDP data was released as usual.

☆ China delays release of economic indicators including Q3 GDP
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Aly SongBEIJING, Oct 17 (Reuters) - China will delay the release of economic indicators originally scheduled for publication this week, including the country's third-quarter gross domestic product due on Tuesday, according to an updated calendar on the statistics bureau's website. The data for third-quarter GDP - originally scheduled for release at 10:00 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) on Tuesday - had been highly anticipated after the world's second-largest economy grew just 0.4% in the second quarter from a year earlier. The delays announced on Monday followed an unexplained move by the General Administration of Customs on Friday to skip its previously scheduled release of September's trade data. The trade statistics had been expected to show China's export growth weakened further from August, dragged down by soft global demand, while its imports remained tepid. The trade data was still not released on Monday and calls to the customs administration seeking comment went unanswered.

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