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Byline: Katrina Northrop, Eva Dou TAIPEI, Taiwan - A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn't look [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff SOROWAKO, INDONESIA -- A top a hill overlooking Loeha Raya, a cluster of villages on the shores of Lake Towuti, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, [...]

APPAREL Hedlyne Goes For Maximum of Two Lines Nike shares were up more than 4 percent on Thursday as investors hoped the return of the billionaire William Ackman as a [...]

Byline: Eva Dou, Ellen Nakashima The Commerce Department has further restricted the sale of U.S. technology to China's leading high-tech firm, Huawei Technologies, revoking certain allowances of U.S. chip sales [...]

Byline: David L. Stern, Loveday Morris and Emily Rauhala KYIV - A wide-ranging overhaul of Ukraine's defense ministry continued Monday as all six deputy defense ministers were dismissed, two weeks [...]

Late on a muggy evening in mid-July, Samantha Power, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and Bridget Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, boarded a night train [...]

When Russia's war blocked vitally needed grains at Ukrainian ports, officials succeeded in finding other routes out. But the solution brought its own problems. In Britain, food prices were up [...]

The European Union lifted tariffs on Ukrainian grain last year. But farmers say they are suffering from a glut of produce in Europe. KYIV, Ukraine -- The European Union has [...]

Of all the vexing regulations that Brexit has thrust upon Paul Knight's shellfish exporting business, the one he finds most absurd is this: Before he can deliver his crabs and [...]

AUTOMOBILES G.M. Is Offering Buyouts to Its Salaried Employees General Motors is offering buyouts for most of its salaried employees and expects to take a pretax charge of up to [...]

The action to cut off five Chinese companies and a research institute from American parts and technologies is part of the Biden administration's response to the balloon it shot down [...]

The European Union, the region that is most dependent on Russian oil, has already banned most Russian oil imports, so the cap mainly affects buyers outside of Europe. President Vladimir [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham Russia and Ukraine agreed on Thursday to extend a deal allowing Kyiv to export grain through the Black Sea, officials said. The pact, brokered by the United [...]

Byline: Jeanne Whalen Western suppliers have started cutting ties to some Chinese chipmakers in response to new U.S. export controls, in another sign of the partial technology divorce the Biden [...]

Byline: Cate Cadell and Ellen Nakashima Military research groups at the leading edge of China's hypersonics and missile programs - many on a U.S. export blacklist - are purchasing a [...]

In case you haven't noticed, let me alert you to a bracing turn of events: The U.S. is now in conflict with Russia and China at the same time. Grandma [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima, Jeanne Whalen and Cate Cadell The Biden administration on Friday announced its most aggressive measures to date aimed at limiting China's access to advanced computer chips and [...]

The new rules could be the most sweeping action taken yet by the Biden administration to thwart China's access to American technology that powers data centers and supercomputers. The Biden [...]

The Commerce Department imposed trade restrictions on five businesses that it says violated sanctions. The United States has accused five Chinese companies of violating sanctions against Russia by continuing to [...]

Byline: Cat ZakrzewskiVenture capitalists are warning the Trump administration not to overly restrict the export of new technology such as artificial intelligence - insisting that could make it much harder [...]

HONG KONG -- ZTE is one of China's few truly international electronics firms. Yet American companies will now need special permission to sell to it. The company, which makes smartphones, [...]

As part of the budget deal to keep the government running for another year, the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil is finally set to be lifted. It's about [...]

BEIJING -- China has scrapped its export quotas for rare earths, minerals used in mobile phones and other high-tech products, after losing a World Trade Organization case brought by Washington [...]

Byline: Daniel J. Weiss Even with the recent domestic oil boom, the U.S. still imports one-third of this vital commodity. This is nearly the same amount as when the ban [...]

BEIJING -- During the George W. Bush era, North Korea and Iran were joined together as the Axis of Evil, but with President Obama's phone call to President Hassan Rouhani [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK KIMBERLEY PROCESS JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwe is vowing to push ahead with a massive export of controversial gems from its violence-plagued diamond fields, despite its failure to win [...]

Byline: CP Ottawa is putting on hold a World Trade Organization complaint on livestock exports after the United States revised labelling regulations that threatened Canadian beef and pork exports. Agriculture [...]

Byline: With reports from Richard Mackie and Dawn Walton OTTAWA -- Federal officials were predicting further international trade bans on Canadian beef as they scrambled yesterday to contain damage from [...]

COUNTRY BACKGROUND FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT IMPORT CONTROLS: Japan has 61 (by HS code 4 digit classification) import quotas, in addition to the items controlled under the Washington Treaty [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE The Census Bureau is preparing to publish for comment rules that would require companies to use the Automated Export System for exporting munitions [...]