International Customs

NEW YORK: The US government went to considerable lengths to minimize privacy concerns as it tested out a biometric airport...

US customs facility at Conroe airport, construction costs to be $2.3m

NEW YORK: Montgomery County’s purchasing department will present bid opening numbers next month for construction on the U.S. Customs facility...

Taiwan petrochemical exports fall on y/y in April

TAIPEI: Taiwan’s exports of most key petrochemical products in April fell on a year-on-year basis, tracking overall declines in overseas...

Vietnam to promote coal exports to raise domestic production

HANOI: Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is proposing the government to promote coal exports amid increasing domestic production,...

Brazilian meat exports hit 18.1% last month

BRAZIL: Surveys conducted by the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA) show that Brazilian pork exports grew 18.1 per cent...

Indian potato exports drop 40% during Ramadan

NEW DELHI: According to Mr Gopi Nath, owner of Nicola Foods, a company devoted to the export and trade of...

India Reserve Bank to issue gold bonds to curb imports

NEW DELHI: India plans to issue gold bonds to curb imports by the world’s second-largest consumer of the metal, whose...

Poland’s wage up by 3.2% to PLN 4,002.16 YoY in May 2015

WARSAW: Poland's average corporate gross wage measured PLN 4,002.16 in May, as it rose by 3.2% year on year on...

Poland to put PLN 6.5b into state-managed investment funds

WARSAW: The Polish government will set up four investment funds with the target capitalization of PLN 6.5 billion to be...

Poland’s charter airline Enter Air to raise PLN 110m net from IPO

WARSAW: Poland's top charter airline Enter Air wants to raise PLN 110 million net from its IPO, offering up to...

EU council lifts excessive deficit procedure on Poland

WARSAW: The EU Council has freed Poland from the excessive deficit procedure imposed in 2009, Poland's Finance Ministry said on...

Jordan Customs promotes revise Golden List programme

AMMAN: Jordan Customs announced in a press statement on Wednesday that it held the second of two Public-Private Dialogue Forums...

Market share decline may leave Europe with no investment bank champion

ATHENS: Retrenching and cost-cutting European investment banks are on course to lose market share to their bigger US rivals for the...

Global humanitarian aid hit a record $24.5 billion in 2014

AMMAN: Global humanitarian aid hit a record $24.5 billion in 2014 boosted by a nearly $1 billion extra from Gulf...

Central bank signs deal with Islamic International Arab Bank

AMMAN: The Islamic International Arab Bank (IIAB) and the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) on Saturday signed an agreement of...

Green energy targets drive renewables capacity to new high

AMMAN: Capacity to generate power from renewable sources, including solar, wind and hydro, hit a new high in 2014, driven...

Jordanian exports decline by 12.1% to JD1.7m

AMMAN: Total exports during the first four months of 2015 amounted to JD1.7 billion, 12.1 per cent less than the...

Danish Maersk Line gets Global Carrier of the Year

COPENHAGEN: Maersk Line was named Global Carrier of the Year after one of its most successful periods to date, with...

Greece risk miscalculating Merkel on grecek aid: Tsipras

ATHENS: Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is testing Angela Merkel’s patience, risking the best hope for keeping his country in...

Greece drama nears final act, ending uncertain