Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. On December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by ...

The nation’s customs agency has issued a list of at least 100 steel products that will require an application to fit within a quota before being exported. The quota system covers items including steel ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. firms to obtain a license before exporting sequences of synthetic DNA. DNA ...

BEIJING, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The world's largest steel producer, China, plans to roll out a licence system from 2026 to regulate exports of the metal, as robust shipments have fuelled a growing ...

India’s government approved on Friday auctions for coal that buyers could use for industrial activity and exports in yet another reform in the vast coal sector. The government endorsed the new policy ...