Taxonomy: Affected Trading Partner - Portugal
United States of America: Bill to ban imports of goods for which there is no registered domestic agent
Description
A bill under consideration in the U.S.
Russia: Restrictions on customs clearance points for exports of metal scrap
Description
The Federal Customs Service issued an Order # 1514 from 2 December 2008, in force from 30 March 2009, which restricts customs clearance points for exports of metal scrap.
Russia: Car scrappage regional project by UAZ
Description
By mid-February 2010 another pilot project of car scrappage was prepared in one of the Russian states (Ul'yanovskaya oblast) to support the car production of its car plant UAZ.
Russia: Injection of 28 billion rubles (933 million US dollars) into the charter capital of the "Russian Technologies" to support the domestic car industry
Description
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a ruling (the Government Decree # 2080-p from 25 December 2009) effective from 8 January 2010 to inject 28 billion rubles (933 million Euros) into the charter capital of State Corporation "Russian
Russia: Car scrappage regional project by GAZ
Description
By mid-August 2009 the first pilot project of car scrappage was established in one of the Russian states (Nizhegorodskaya Oblast) to support the car production of its car plant GAZ.
Russia: Subsidies to the Russian leasing companies to buy Russian cars
Description
A one billion rubles (33,3 million US dollars) fund was made available to leasing companies to reimburse some of the expenses incurred from loans undertaken during 2009 to 2014, where the purpose of such loans was to buy the Russian domestically p
Russia: Subsidies to the Russian domestic car producers for technology update
Description
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a ruling (the Government Decree # 262 from 30 March 2009) to provide subsidies to the domestic car industry.
Russia: Domestic car industry deal with the Russian Railways (State owned company)
Description
In January 2010, the Russian Railways (100% state owned company), AutoVaz and RailTransAuto have signed an agreement according to which the Russian domestic car producers can transfer their light cars to the Russian Far East according to the
Nigeria: Fund for restructing and refinancing loans to the manufacturing sector
Description
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as part of a N500billion power and real sector fund has given N200billion to restructure and refinance existing bank loans to the Nigerian SMEs (Small and medium scale enterprises) or manufacturing sector.
Italy: Rescue aid to Vinyls Italia S.p.A. in amministrazione straordinaria
Description
By letter dated 2 March 2010, registered the same day, the Italian authorities notified, in line with Article 108 (3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter "TFEU") their intention to grant a rescue aid to Vi
