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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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08BOGOTA3747 | UNDERSECRETARY GLASSMAN'S OCTOBER 1 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT URIBE [...] (C) President Alvaro Uribe told Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James Glassman on October 1 that he appreciated President Bush's efforts to obtain congressional passage of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) but voiced concerns over the impact of the [...] | 2008-10-14 13:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CO ECON PREL PTER EC BL VE ETRD |
08BOGOTA3786 | COLOMBIAN TRADE OFFICIALS FRUSTRATED OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY. The October 17 ministerial that the GOC had hoped would smooth over testy Colombian/Venezuelan ties -- a follow-up to the July 11 Uribe-Chavez summit -- has devolved into a vague working lunch between foreign ministers at the BRV's insistence. On trade Colombia had sought to come [...] | 2008-10-16 15:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ECON ECIN PREL CO VE |
08BOGOTA3826 | NOMINATION FOR IQBAL MASIH AWARD FOR ELIMINATION [...] Embassy Bogota would like to nominate the Cartagena Drivers Association (ASOCHOFECAR) for the Department of Labor's Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor. Information requested in reftel is listed below. 2. Nomination information: a) Cartagena Drivers Association (ASOCHOF [...] | 2008-10-21 19:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP CO |
08BOGOTA3967 | COLOMBIA: DELIVERY OF FY09 MCC SCORECARDS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 18:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA CO |
08BOGOTA4178 | COLOMBIA TO SIGN TRADE/INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Colombia plans to sign its Free Trade Agreement with Canada as well as a Bilateral Investment Treaty with China on the margins of the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru, November 22-23. Colombia will also use the occasion to formally accept an invitation from the P4 to begin accession [...] | 2008-11-19 20:24:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN PREL APEC CO |
08BOGOTA4179 | CODEL MEEKS FOCUSES ON AFRO-COLOMBIAN ISSUES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) traveled to Bogota, Cali, and Guapi, Colombia November 6-10. During meetings with President Uribe and other public and private sector leaders, Congressman Meeks emphasized that the Obama administration would continue to embrace Colombia as a [...] | 2008-11-19 20:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EAID PHUM CO |
08BOGOTA421 | VENEZUELAN AUTO QUOTA COULD COST COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local auto experts estimate Venezuela's new auto import quota may cost Colombia 5,000 jobs in the assembly sector. Colombian parts manufacturers serve to benefit from the quota in anticipated increased sales to Venezuelan assemblers. The GOC met with auto industry officials [...] | 2008-02-01 15:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ETRD PREL ELAB ECON CO |
08BOGOTA4215 | SCENESETTER FOR DECEMBER 8-9 VISIT TO COLOMBIA OF [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as Colombians watch with great interest the transition period to President-elect Barack Obama, and speculate on what the outcome might mean for U.S.-Colombia relations--especially prospects for Congressional passage of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Act (CTPA). The [...] | 2008-11-25 13:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM PTER ETRD SNAR CO |
08BOGOTA4234 | COLOMBIA SIGNS FTA WITH EFTA [...] (U) SUMMARY On November 25, Colombia signed a Free Trade Agreement with the four member countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) -- Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. With total trade between EFTA countries and Colombia at just over one billion dollars, the agreem [...] | 2008-11-25 19:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL CO |
08BOGOTA4312 | U.S. AIRLINES EXPAND COLOMBIA OPERATIONS DESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. airlines operating in Colombia have no plans to cancel existing routes or flights, despite a significant drop in bookings in recent weeks and concerns about 2009 profitability. They cite the current global financial crisis and Colombia's strict regulatory structure -- spec [...] | 2008-12-03 15:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV ECON PGOV ETRD EFIN CO |
08BOGOTA4334 | COLOMBIA-CUBA: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (C) Colombia has a minimal trade and investment relationship with Cuba. According to the Colombian Ministry of Trade, in 2007 Colombia exported USD 50.5 million worth of goods to Cuba and imported USD 8.4 million of goods from Cuba. The rate of bilateral trade flows in the first half of 2008 [...] | 2008-12-05 16:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON ETTC PGOV PREL CU CO |
08BOGOTA4352 | COLOMBIA: DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF AMENDED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 16:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO |
08BOGOTA501 | UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR: COLOMBIA, [...] Embassy Bogota's update of worst forms of child labor information request follows. 2. LAWS AND REGULATIONS PROSCRIBING THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR INDICATORS: -What laws have been promulgated on child labor, such as minimum age(s) for employment or hazardous forms of work? Are there [...] | 2008-02-08 00:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD PHUM CA CO |
08BOGOTA540 | COLOMBIA'S TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE: IS IT UP TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Colombia's demography and topography make transportation infrastructure development particularly challenging. Security problems and constitutional earmarks for social services and local governments hobbled public investment in transportation in the 1990s. Today the GOC is emb [...] | 2008-02-12 15:13:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN EAIR EWWT ETRD ECON CO |
08BOGOTA646 | WTO DDA NEGOTIATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS AND [...] (C) Ministry of Trade Official Juan Guillermo Castro, strictly protect, described the GOC's World Trade Organization (WTO) environmental goods and services position as once not settled and "in the middle" of the U.S. and Brazilian proposals. Castro, who had just returned from negotiations in [...] | 2008-02-22 20:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD SENV CO |
08BOGOTA648 | WTO DDA NEGOTIATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS AND [...] (C) Ministry of Trade Official Juan Guillermo Castro, strictly protect, described the GOC's World Trade Organization (WTO) environmental goods and services position as once not settled and "in the middle" of the U.S. and Brazilian proposals. Castro, who had just returned from negotiations in [...] | 2008-02-22 20:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD SENV CO |
08BOGOTA736 | SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 29-MARCH 2 VISIT OF [...] (U) Your visit comes as Colombia experiences a dramatic transformation, fostered by targeted U.S. assistance. Colombia finds itself safer, economically stronger, better governed and more democratic than it has been in decades. Rates of murder, kidnapping, and violence nationwide, including aga [...] | 2008-02-28 00:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN PGOV EAID CO |
08BOGOTA737 | SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 29-MARCH 3 VISIT OF LABOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 00:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD CO |
08BOGOTA741 | COLOMBIA LOOKS TO NEIGHBORS TO PICK UP SLACK IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Colombian exports to Venezuela jumped 87% in 2007; however, increased diplomatic and economic tensions and Venezuelan efforts to reduce Colombian trade have caused Colombian exporters to look for alternative markets. Local experts tell us Colombia's automobile and textile/apparel [...] | 2008-02-28 15:08:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON CO |
08BOGOTA834 | FTA'S IMPACT ON SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE BUSINESSES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Small and medium size enterprises (SME) in Colombia expect to benefit from the U.S.-Colombian Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) as it grows the overall economy and increases domestic demand. SMEs will also benefit from cheaper inputs and increased capital investment flows. Accordi [...] | 2008-03-05 21:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON CO |
08BOGOTA901 | WEATHERING THE VENEZUELA/ECUADOR CRISIS - GOC AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following meetings with business leaders, the GOC has announced a four-point contingency plan to stimulate the Colombian economy in the event Venezuela cuts all trade with Colombia for the killing of FARC senior leader Raul Reyes in Ecuador (ref A). While presented as a worst-c [...] | 2008-03-06 19:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV BEXP CO |
08BOGOTA903 | MARCH 6 UPDATE: COLOMBIA DISPUTE WITH ECUADOR AND [...] (U) Venezuela continued to restrict the import of Colombian goods and people into Venezuela in response to the GOC's March 1 attack against the FARC in Ecuador (reftel). Still, the flow of food and other perishable products continued. Businessmen reported GOV authorities were lifting restrict [...] | 2008-03-06 21:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PTER MOPS ETRD VZ FR SP SZ EC NU |
08BOGOTA911 | VENEZUELAN NATIONALIZATION THREAT RATTLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Adding fuel to the diplomatic crisis between Colombia and Ecuador over the killing of FARC senior commander Raul Reyes (ref A),Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned he may nationalize Colombian companies operating in Venezuela. While a number of Colombian private sector repr [...] | 2008-03-07 21:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL PGOV CO |
08BRASILIA1000 | USDA UNDER SECRETARY KEENUM CO-CHAIRS 3RD U.S.-BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Mark Keenum, USDA Under Secretary Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services co-chaired the 3rd U.S.-Brazil Consultative Committee on Agriculture in Brasilia May 19-20, 2008 which was successful in expanding bilateral dialogue and in nudging the agricultural trade agenda with Br [...] | 2008-07-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1048 | Brazil: Post-Doha - early public reaction [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 15:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1111 | 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DRAFT DECLARATION OF [...] As per reftel, post discussed preparations for the April 2009 Summit of the Americas with Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs Division of American States Deputy Director Antonio Franca. Franca said that Brazil was still reviewing the draft declaration and would have specific comments later [...] | 2008-08-15 20:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1118 | DUE DILIGENCE FOR BRASILIA NOMINEE GOOGLE EARTH OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Post Brasilia reaffirms that the conduct of Google Earth Outreach, building conservation partnerships with indigenous leaders and practitioners in the Amazon forests of Brazil, has been exemplary and deserving of consideration for State's 2008 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). An aw [...] | 2008-08-18 19:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV SENV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1128 | BRAZIL: Trade, Taxes and Investment - CAMEX Lytha Spindola [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting August 20 between Ambassador Sobel and CAMEX (see para 7) Executive Secretary Lytha Spindola, Spindola hinted strongly that MRE is becoming extremely interested in pursuing 4 plus 1 conversations on trade with the United States. She expressed optimism that forward m [...] | 2008-08-25 16:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA1176 | BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S. Brazil biofuels steering committee met at the technical level on August 20 in Brasilia, following the postponement of travel to Brazil by Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Reuben Jeffery. The meeting included a highly constructive private sector element and a very p [...] | 2008-09-05 20:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAGR ETRD ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA1218 | LULA, AMORIM DISCUSS CONTINUITY, IRAN, VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary: During separate meetings with Senator Hagel, President Lula and Foreign Minister Amorim shared common views about the need for the next U.S. Administration to continue building on the remarkable progress achieved in the past several years in bringing the two countries closer. Bo [...] | 2008-09-12 13:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO ETRD PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1264 | BRAZIL: SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS NEW [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chertoff's July 19-22 visit to Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil identified new areas of cooperation between the United States and Brazil. They included improved security of passenger travel and travel document fraud d [...] | 2008-09-22 20:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SOCI ECIN ECON EIND EINV ELTN EMIN ENRG ETRD |
08BRASILIA1265 | LULA, AMORIM DISCUSS TRADE, CUBA, UNSC REFORM WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 21:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PAO ETRD PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1267 | SENATOR HAGEL DISCUSSES ENERGY, REGIONAL POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Chuck Hagel visited Brasilia from August 31 to September 1, during which time he met with key leaders in the Brazilian government, including Minister of Defense Jobim, Minister of Mines and Energy Lobao, and Minister for Strategic Affairs Unger, to discuss Brazil,s dynam [...] | 2008-09-22 21:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PAO ETRD PREL ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1299 | Brazil Responds to U.S. Financial Crisis [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the U.S. financial crisis, Brazil's Central Bank (CB) has partially reversed its hawkish anti-inflationary policies by adding 13.2 billion reais to the financial system in hopes of freeing up credit and has indicated that future interest rate hikes are unlikel [...] | 2008-10-01 11:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA130 | BRAZIL: USTR OCR MEETING WITH GOB OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On January 15, Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative (DAUSTR) Chris Wilson and delegation met privately with Hadil Vianna, Director for Scientific and Technical Affairs (DCT) at the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) and later with members of the [...] | 2008-01-25 18:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1325 | BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR CEO FORUM - OCT 9/10 - SECRETARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 13:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1362 | Brazil: U/S Jeffery - Central Bank and External Relations [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 10:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1399 | BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY (IBAMA) TO TAKE [...] SUMMARY. In an effort to improve handling of trade in products covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) will assume responsibility for all imports and exports. Pursuant to a rule th [...] | 2008-10-24 17:36:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1405 | BRAZILIANS HIGHLIGHT POSITIVE BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (C) During his October 17 visit to Brazil, Under Secretary Bill Burns was told repeatedly by GOB officials and others that relations between the United States and Brazil are excellent and that they hope a new U.S. administration will make an early effort to build on them. GOB officials focused [...] | 2008-10-24 20:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG BR |
08BRASILIA1407 | Brazil: WTO Amb Azevedo Meeting with DUSTR Veroneau [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 09:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIND EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1417 | Brazil Enacts Preventive Measures to Address Global [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the global financial crisis, Brazilian President Lula signed Provisional Measure 443 (MP443) October 22 that allows two federal institutions, the Bank of Brazil (BB),and Caixa Economica, the right to purchase stock in Brazilian banks, private or public, as a pre [...] | 2008-10-28 18:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1418 | Brazil: Scenesetter - Economic Partnership Dialogue October [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The third meeting of the Economic Partnership Dialogue (EPD) provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce the importance USG attaches to deepening and expanding the positive economic agenda between the United States and Brazil now, through the transition, and into a new Adminis [...] | 2008-10-29 09:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1435 | BRAZIL: NEW DELHI IBAS SUMMIT ENSURES CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazilian diplomats say Brazil was satisfied with the October 15 India)Brazil-South Africa (IBAS) Summit in New Delhi because it strengthened IBAS and should ensure its continuity after the upcoming changes in member state governments. The IBAS Fund is capitalized at only tw [...] | 2008-11-03 11:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD IN SF BR |
08BRASILIA1463 | Brazil: Views on G20 meetings [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazilian officials across GOB welcome the G20 approach to address the global financial crisis. External Relations Ministry, Finance Ministry and Central Bank emphasize the G20 must be seen as a mechanism to develop concrete proposals that take emerging economy input into accou [...] | 2008-11-07 13:31:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1482 | Brazil: Cachaga and Tennessee Whiskey [...] (SBU) Summary: William Foster, Assistant Administrator of the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB),met with Agriculture, External Relations, and Receita Federal (Brazilian Customs) on October 29th to propose a Memorandum of Understanding, discuss new Brazilian a [...] | 2008-11-13 19:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1486 | BRAZIL WILL OPEN AN EMBASSY IN PYONGYANG [...] (C) Summary. Brazil will open an embassy in Pyongyang next year, and has already selected an experienced diplomat as ambassador, an Itamaraty official told poloff on November 4. Downplaying the opening's significance, the diplomat said the timing was "spontaneous" but fulfills a long-standi [...] | 2008-11-14 18:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PARM PHUM BR KN ZO |
08BRASILIA1523 | Brazil: Economic Partnership Dialogue meetings [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazilian External Relations Ministry (MRE) U/S Mendonca welcomed the continuation of the Economic Partnership Dialogue (EPD) in the October 30 meeting with WHA A/S Tom Shannon and EEB A/S Dan Sullivan. The EPD agreed to expanded substantive cooperation in third countries on de [...] | 2008-11-24 18:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BR |
08BRASILIA1553 | BRAZIL'S BIOFUELS CONFERENCE - MANDATES NEEDED, [...] SUMMARY: The International Biofuels Conference hosted by the Brazilian government in Sao Paulo from November 17-21, may have changed the focus of the international debate over biofuels. Despite some criticisms of U.S. corn-based ethanol and tariffs, the participants from over 90 countries over [...] | 2008-12-04 09:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA1559 | BRAZILIANS, KOREANS SAY RELATIONS GOOD, GETTING [...] (C) Summary. The four-day visit to Brazil by Korean President Lee Myung-bak reaffirmed an already positive relationship characterized by a rapidly growing but unbalanced trade relationship, plans for modest exchanges in agricultural and mining technology, and very different views on UN refor [...] | 2008-12-04 16:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV ETRD BR KS KN |
08BRASILIA1590 | THE BRAZIL-RUSSIA PARTNERSHIP: COFFEE AND SYMPATHY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The late November visit to Brazil by Russian President Medvedev provided an opportunity for both countries to express their interest in enhanced economic ties, science and defense cooperation, energy and development of the BRIC grouping as a more regular international forum. Br [...] | 2008-12-12 15:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS ETRD EAGR ENGR BR RS |
08BRASILIA1603 | PRODUCTIVE U.S.-BRAZIL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIALOGUE, [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 30-31, representatives of the USG scientific and technological community met with Brazilian counterparts in Brasilia. The Brasilia meeting was generally viewed as very productive [...] | 2008-12-12 17:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KSCA SENV ECON ETRD EINV BR |
08BRASILIA1610 | FIRST MERCOSUL-ASEAN MINISTERIAL: BABY STEPS, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. At the first Mercosul-ASEAN ministerial, delegations discussed global affairs, trade and investment, people-to people ties, and future cooperation. A joint declaration highlighted the blocs' "firm commitment to successfully concluding the Doha Round in a fair and balanced ma [...] | 2008-12-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD BR ASEAN |
08BRASILIA1617 | BRAZIL'S PORT DREDGING CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary: Brazil recently unveiled updated plans to dredge over 75 thousand cubic meters at an estimated cost of R$ 1.4 billion (USD580 million) in 16 of its largest commercial maritime ports as part of President Lula's Accelerated Growth Program (PAC). The plan, entitled the National Progra [...] | 2008-12-17 17:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV BR |
08BRASILIA1622 | BRAZIL AND INDONESIA: A RELATIONSHIP FOR THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 18-19 visit to Brazil by Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono, Indonesia and Brazil agreed to cooperate in agriculture, including biofuels; mining; and poverty eradication. They formalized a strategic partnership for ongoing dialogue and cooperation. Brazili [...] | 2008-12-18 13:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV ENRG EAGR BR ID |
08BRASILIA1640 | BRAZIL RESPSONE TO IMPLEMENTATION OF AMENDED LACEY ACT - [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On December 9, Environment, Science and Technology, and Health (ESTH) Counselor briefed Antonio Carlos Hummel, Director for the Department of Forests, in the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) abo [...] | 2008-12-22 10:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO BR |
08BRASILIA1650 | BRAZIL: MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PETITION BARACK OBAMA [...] Seventy-one of Brazil's 81 senators and 203 of the 513 federal deputies signed a petition addressed to President-elect Obama calling for an end to the Cuba trade embargo. They represent the spectrum of ideological parties in congress and include some who are opposed to the Cuban regime. Th [...] | 2008-12-23 11:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD BR CU |
08BRASILIA254 | BRAZIL: 2008 Special 301 Recommendation [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Brasilia's input for the 2008 Special 301 Review of Brazil. 2. (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Brazil remain on the Special 301 Watch List based on the GoB's ongoing commitment to a strong overall anti-piracy enforcement regime and its determin [...] | 2008-02-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA288 | Brazil: CEO Forum Members meetings Feb 20 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CEO co-chair Tim Solso (CEO Cummins) and Brazilian CEO Forum representatives Jorge Gerdau (CEO, Gerdau SA) and Flavio Leite (representing Josue Gomes da Silva of Cotaminas) met with Embassy staff and MRE visas chief Mitzi Gurgel the morning of February 20 to discuss progress on C [...] | 2008-03-03 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA289 | Brazil: Investment Agreement Principles - consolidated GOB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This message provides consolidated input to Washington agencies regarding the status of intra-GOB discussions on bilateral investment treaty principles. While no treaty "text" comparable to the US model BIT exists, CAMEX (the Brazilian External Trade Chamber) member ministries h [...] | 2008-03-03 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA428 | BRAZIL: NON-PAPER DELIVERED ON FINANCIAL [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel non-paper on March 27 to Bernardo Mota, Chief Staff at the Ministry of Finance's Financial Activities Oversight Council (COAF, the GOB's financial intelligence unit). Mota stated that, as always, COAF would do its best to ensure Brazil was complying with UNSC resol [...] | 2008-03-28 21:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KNNP ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PARM IR |
08BRASILIA472 | BRAZIL: NON-PAPER DELIVERED REGARDING BANKS MELLI, [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel non-paper on April 4 to Bernardo Mota, Chief Staff at the Ministry of Finance's Financial Activities Oversight Council (COAF, the GOB's financial intelligence unit). Mota stated that COAF would do its best to ensure Brazil was complying with UNSC resolutions and th [...] | 2008-04-04 20:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KNNP ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PARM IR |
08BRASILIA48 | CHINESE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HIS PRIORITIES, [...] (C) Summary. Chen Duqing, Chinese Ambassador to Brazil, told Ambassador Sobel on October 19 that his top priorities are to create a more favorable environment for economic relations and to promote Chinese interests in the Brazilian Congress. Ambassador Chen described an economic relationship [...] | 2008-01-08 13:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV PREL BR CH |
08BRASILIA5 | A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Summary. Michele Varensise, Italian Ambassador to Brazil, told WHA A/S Thomas Shannon on December 13 that Brazil is the centerpiece of Italy's South American strategy. Italy sees Brazil playing an increasingly larger role in maintaining stability, economic growth, and integration. He p [...] | 2008-01-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD IT BR XM XR VE UNSC |
08BRASILIA534 | BRAZIL: CHINA AND BRAZIL STRENGTHEN RELATIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary. Sino-Brazilian relations are officially excellent, characterized by a booming economic relationship and a political relationship that has become increasingly closer, especially since 2004. Both governments are taking a long-term view and are trying to focus on crafting a pati [...] | 2008-04-22 17:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV BR CH XR |
08BRASILIA551 | Brazil: CEO Forum April 28 Scenesetter [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it as ever been, with an excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [...] | 2008-04-25 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN CVIS BR |
08BRASILIA6 | A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT SARNEY [...] (C) Summary: Former President and sitting Senator Jose Sarney (PMDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, governing coalition; of Amapa) told WHA A/S Thomas Shannon on December 14 that President Lula is doing a good job and has maintained the social calm necessary for growth and development. [...] | 2008-01-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD KDEM BR VE GY BL EC CO XM XR FARC |
08BRASILIA708 | CALLING ALL SMUGGLERS - BRAZILIAN "SACOLEIROS" BILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Brazilian bill intended to improve customs processing at the Paraguayan border would likely serve to increase opportunities for the importing of counterfeit goods and smuggling of all types. The so-called "Sacoleiros" (or peddlers) bill would allow small-scale importers to re [...] | 2008-05-20 19:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA847 | U.S. AIRCRAFT IN CONTENTION TO BE BRAZIL'S NEXT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. On June 10, MLO Brasilia obtained an unofficial copy of a Request for Information (RFI - passed electronically to Washington agencies) from the Brazilian Air Force (BRAF) concerning the upcoming competition for Brazil,s next fighter aircraft. One U.S. origin fighter, the F- [...] | 2008-06-20 18:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR ETTC BR PREL ETRD EAIR EIND |
08BRASILIA89 | BRAZIL: LAUNCH OF ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and EB Assistant Secretary Dan Sullivan, joined by Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Latin America Brian O'Neill, led the US delegation to the successful December 13 Economic Partnership Dialogue (EPD) with Brazil's Ministry of External A [...] | 2008-01-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA998 | RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST REGARDING RAW SUGAR TARIFF RATE [...] (SBU) Post approached the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture regarding the U.S. raw sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) and received the following response. Brazil has already shipped nearly all of its FY2008 quota to the U.S. and expects to ship the entire amount. If the U.S. were to open further TR [...] | 2008-07-23 20:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD BR |
08BRATISLAVA216 | SLOVAKIA TO ADOPT EURO IN 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The European Commission's Convergence Report, released on May 7, recommended Slovakia for entry into the Euro zone as of January 1, 2009. The report noted that Slovakia's fulfillment of the Maastricht economic criteria (price stability, sound public finances, exchange rate stabi [...] | 2008-05-12 15:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA249 | Slovak/Euro parity revalued for an unprecedented second [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the request of the Slovak government the European Union revalued the Slovak koruna's central parity rate by 17 percent to 30.126 against the Euro from May 29. This is the outer edge of the previous parity of 35.44 set in March 2007, and creates a new band of 25.60-34.64 SKK/E [...] | 2008-05-30 11:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA253 | DEMARCHES ON GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE, FOOD [...] (U) Post conveyed points from reftels to Minister of Agriculture Zdenka Kramplova. In follow-up meetings at the Ministry with Jana Vargova, Director of the Plant Commodities Section, and Eva Kolesarova, Director of Foreign Relations, neither raised any significant objections to the reftel po [...] | 2008-05-30 13:33:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD LO TBIO |
08BRATISLAVA283 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. PRIORITIES FOR IWC ANNUAL [...] (U) Pol/Econoff conveyed reftel points to Katarina Slabeyova, CITES Management Authority, Department of Nature and Landscape Protection in the Ministry of Environment. Slabeyova will be a GoS representative at this year's annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Santiago [...] | 2008-06-13 15:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA286 | IPR: SLOVAKIA PROVIDES STORAGE FACILITY FOR DRUG [...] Summary: The Slovak Ministry of Health (MOH) has resolved a long-running USG concern related to the protection of intellectual property by providing a new, secure facility for the storage of confidential drug company data. End Summary. 2. As a part of the 2006 Special 301 review process the [...] | 2008-06-17 14:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON LO |
08BRATISLAVA288 | SLOVAKIA STILL UNDECIDED ON FAO/WHO CODEX CHAIR [...] (U) Post conveyed reftel points to Eva Kolesarova, Director of Foreign Relations at the Ministry of Agriculture. Her office confirmed Slovakia will be sending official(s) to the 31st session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Geneva but is still undecided regarding the nominee they will [...] | 2008-06-18 14:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO LO |
08BRATISLAVA315 | SLOVAKIA TO JOIN THE EURO ZONE: IT'S OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) On July 8, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Joaquin Almunia, officially welcomed Slovakia as the 16th member of the Euro zone as of January 1, 2009. As widely expected, the final conversion rate between the Slovak Koruna and the Euro was fixed at the current cen [...] | 2008-07-08 17:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA36 | SLOVAKIA WOULD SUPPORT TOUGHER SANCTIONS ON BURMA [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with MFA EU Correspondent Alexander Micovcin on January 25. Micovcin took detailed notes and promised to share and discuss the points with his colleagues. Micovcin confirmed Slovakia's willingness in principle to support additional, targeted sanctions against [...] | 2008-01-25 15:49:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PHUM BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA373 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF TIGHTER EU SANCTIONS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 07:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD BM LO |
08BRATISLAVA66 | 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW FOR SLOVAKIA [...] Summary and Recommendation: Protecting pharmaceutical patent rights has been an ongoing battle requiring regular Embassy attention since Slovakia was removed from the Special 301 Watch List in 2006. There have been two attempts to water-down or eliminate the hard-won patent linkage amendment [...] | 2008-02-15 13:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON LO |
08BRATISLAVA81 | BOOMING ECONOMY REMAINS ON TRACK FOR EURO ADOPTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Slovakia's economy continues to grow at an astronomical rate - 10.3 percent for 2007 - keeping the country on track for euro adoption in 2009. A few signs of a possibly overheating economy are present, such as creeping inflation, but these do not appear serious at this point. P [...] | 2008-02-25 13:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRAZZAVILLE257 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE RESPONSE TO USITC [...] Embassy Brazzaville is an unclassified post. There are no exports from Republic of Congo (RoC) in the products listed in reftel to the U.S. at this time. Information provided follows reftel request but as information on export processes is difficult to obtain, the information following foc [...] | 2008-09-17 11:05:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ASEC CF |
08BRIDGETOWN116 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2008 [...] (U) Barbados is open for business. The Government of Barbados, through the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC, a.k.a. "Invest Barbados"),strongly encourages foreign direct investment in Barbados, particularly in industries that create jobs and earn foreign currency. 2. [...] | 2008-02-25 14:32:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV XL |
08BRIDGETOWN123 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSED KOSOVO, ARTICLE 98, CUBA, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 21 meeting with the Ambassador, St. Lucian PM King reemphasized his support for Kosovo independence and Article 98, although the GOSL has yet to act on either issue. In discussing the deliverables from the June 2007 Conference on the Caribbean, King's advisor expla [...] | 2008-02-27 18:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTIA ETRD PBTS XL |
08BRIDGETOWN135 | ATF ETRACE MOU [...] Per reftel instructions, copies of the ATF eTrace MOU were delivered to Foreign Ministers by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua and Barbuda #0179, Barbados #0180, Dominica #0181, St. Christopher and Nevis #0182, St. Lucia #0183, St. Vincent and the Grenadines #0184) on March 4, 2008. [...] | 2008-03-04 13:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD ETTC XL TX PARM |
08BRIDGETOWN139 | Successful Commercial Outreach Trip to St Kitts [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 19:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMCHAM ETRD EINV PREL SC XL |
08BRIDGETOWN141 | COMMERCIAL OUTREACH TRIP TO ST KITTS, PART TWO [...] (U) Summary: Poloffs conducted a week-long commercial outreach trip to St Kitts during diplmatic week February 18 to 22. Poloffs met with lcal business leaders, government finance and invesment officers, and hosted two receptions for thelocal American business community, while promotig increa [...] | 2008-03-04 21:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMCHAM ETRD EINV PREL SC XL |
08BRIDGETOWN319 | FURTHER POLITICAL SHAKE-UP IN ST. LUCIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three members of parliament in St. Lucia are threatening to leave the ruling United Workers Party if their demands, which include the dismissal of a competent, but disliked, appointed member of cabinet and the reinstatement of a politically unpopular figure, are not met. If they [...] | 2008-05-16 21:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EINV ETRD KTIA ST XL |
08BRIDGETOWN362 | U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CHAIRPERSON FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS [...] Per reftel instructions, Sarah Hanson, Director, Caribbean Basin Agricultural Trade Office, delivered demarches on the U.S. Candidate for Chairperson FAO/WHO CODEX Alimentarius Commission, as follows: Antigua and Barbuda: delivered to Mrs. Dianne Lalla-Rodriguez, Director, Antigua and Barbu [...] | 2008-06-05 12:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO XL |
08BRIDGETOWN49 | Renewed Interest in Barbados for AmCham [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMCHAMS BEXP ECON ETRD EIND ASEC BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN585 | DOMINICA: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY [...] (SBU) Dominica media outlets recently reported threats of unspecified punitive action by the government against the U.S.-owned monopoly electricity provider DOMLEC Corporation over rising energy costs. At the same time, the government has announced its intention to build a new power plant wi [...] | 2008-09-25 18:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ENRG EINV PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN625 | KUDOS TO EEB/CBA FOR SUPPORTING COMMERCIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 22:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD OECS EINV ECON XL |
08BRIDGETOWN649 | U.S. INVESTOR AT WIT'S END IN DOMINICA [...] (SBU) AGGPIT Caribbean, L.L.C. (incorporated at 14900 Intracoastal Drive, New Orleans, LA 70129),a startup quarry investment into Dominica, is facing difficulties in obtaining the final permits needed to start operations and has requested U.S. government assistance. This US $1 million invest [...] | 2008-10-29 21:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KTDB ETRD PGOV SENV XL |
08BRIDGETOWN67 | QUARRY CONNDRUMS IN DOMINICA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (GOCD) is attempting to revamp the quarry industry. Currently, the quarry industry is unregulated, leading to critical environmental degradation and undercharged royalties on land use. The quarry industry, along with the proposed [...] | 2008-02-01 21:32:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN EAID ETRD EINV XL DO PGOV |
08BRIDGETOWN714 | REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Responses keyed to reftel questions: - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. Dominica has not taken steps to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. Dominica regularly participates in annual CARICOM-Cu [...] | 2008-12-10 20:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU XL |
08BRIDGETOWN715 | ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) At the 2008 CARICOM-Cuba Summit, Antigua and Barbuda publicly declared its commitment to deepening its relationship with Cuba further through increased bilateral collaboration and exchange in a number of areas such as renewable energy, sports, health, education, agriculture, engineering, d [...] | 2008-12-10 20:27:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PINR PGOV CU BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN716 | BARBADOS: SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Barbados and Cuba enjoy a close relationship. At the 2008 Caribbean Community-Cuba Summit, Barbados publicly declared its commitment to deepening its relationship further through increased bilateral collaboration and exchange in a number of areas such as renewable energy, sports, health, [...] | 2008-12-10 20:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL PINR PGOV CU BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN717 | REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Responses keyed to reftel questions: - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. St. Kitts and Nevis has not taken any steps to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. - Has the host country made public [...] | 2008-12-10 20:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU XL |
08BRIDGETOWN718 | REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Responses keyed to reftel questions: - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No. St. Lucia has not taken steps to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. St. Lucia regularly participates in annual CARICOM- [...] | 2008-12-10 20:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU XL |
08BRIDGETOWN728 | DOMINICA'S ECONOMY SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE DESPITE [...] (SBU) Despite recent turmoil in world markets, Dominica is showing some signs of improved economic vitality, with new infrastructure projects coming on line and economic growth projected to reach a respectable three percent. Economic contacts remain cautiously optimistic that Dominica will be [...] | 2008-12-15 16:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ENRG EINV PREL XL |
08BRIDGETOWN95 | Commercial Outreach Efforts in Eastern Caribbean [...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador hosted a lunch on February 11 for the newly formed American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) for Barbados. The board, drawn from ten of the larger American companies in Barbados, will hold an organizational meeting in the last week of February and will begin operations short [...] | 2008-02-14 16:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD EINV AMCHAM ASEC BB XL |
08BRUSSELS1021 | EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: MEDVEDEV GETS A GOOD REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 15:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ENRG ETRD ETTC EINV ECON PBTS EUN |
08BRUSSELS1149 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES BARROSO AND JOUYET ON IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: At her presentation of credentials on July 22, the Ambassador met successively with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and French State Secretary Jean Pierre Jouyet. Both somewhat deflected attempts by the Ambassador to pin the EU down to action on Iran san [...] | 2008-07-28 17:52:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EUN IR KV FR |
08BRUSSELS1233 | EU RESPONDS ON NEW SANCTIONS, FUTURE OF BURMA [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel points on August 6 to the head of unit for South-East Asia at European Commission DG RELEX, and to the new South-East Asia desk officer at the Council Secretariat. They welcomed the JADE Act legislation and appreciated receiving our list of newly des [...] | 2008-08-11 09:43:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV ETRD EAID BM EUN |
08BRUSSELS1234 | BURMA: SOLANA DISCUSSES BURMA WITH TIMOR-LESTE [...] (C) While delivering demarche on the JADE act legislation (ref A),Leo Schulte-Nordholt, South-East Asia Desk Officer at the EU Council Secretariat, briefed us on the July 22 visit to Brussels of the president of Timor-Leste, Jos Ramos-Horta. Shulte-Nordholt participated in a breakfast with H [...] | 2008-08-11 09:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD PREL ETTC KINR EUN TM |
08BRUSSELS1449 | SCENESETTER FR 2008 U.S.-EU INFORMATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This yearQs annual U.S.-EU Information Society Dialogue (ISD) talks, on September 26, come after a busy period in Europe, with the European Parliament voting on a final scaled-back telecom reform package, the EU calling for negotiations to update the WTO Information Technol [...] | 2008-09-18 15:18:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIN EINV EINT ETRD ECON EUN |
08BRUSSELS153 | GAERC: FOCUSES ON SERBIA COMPROMISE WITH LITTLE [...] Summary: EU FMs engaged in a protracted discussion of Serbia at the January 28 GAERC, resulting in a proposal that Serbia sign an interim political agreement on cooperation with the EU. Ministers, faced with continuing opposition to the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement [...] | 2008-01-30 13:55:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID ESDP ETRD KVPR SR |
08BRUSSELS1547 | BELGIUM: RESPONSE TO IRAN DEMARCHES [...] (U) Pol-Econoff and intern met with Belgian MFA UNSC Team, Iran desk officer, and Director of the Nonproliferation Office Werner Bauwens. Bauwens began with a quick briefing on Belgian sanction policy related to Iran. 2. (U) The GOB welcomed UNSCR 1835 (reftel A) as a consensus approach to [...] | 2008-10-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | ECON ETRD PARM KNNP EUN EWWT PREL MNUC IR BE |
08BRUSSELS1576 | COMMISSIONER MCCREEVY INTENDS TO ATTEND [...] (SBU) European Commission Internal Markets Commissioner McCreevy told Ambassador October 9 he plans to attend a rescheduled TEC meeting in November. McCreevy stressed his support for the TEC and belief it should continue into the next U.S. Administration and Commission. He said upcoming Euro [...] | 2008-10-10 09:27:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EUN |
08BRUSSELS1657 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROPOSAL FOR REVIEW OF [...] SUMMARY. On October 1, 2008, the European Commission unveiled its proposal to amend the Capital Requirement Directives (2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC) through a combination of co-decision and comitology proposals. The Co-decision proposal contains the more fundamental changes that must receive [...] | 2008-10-27 15:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD ECON EUN |
08BRUSSELS1661 | EU-CUBA DIALOGUE FOCUSED ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (C) Summary: EU officials spoke positively about the renewal of the EU-Cuba dialogue at foreign minister level on October 16 and the re-launching of development cooperation on October 24. On October 16, FMs Kouchner, Schwartzenberg, and Commissioner Michel discussed the human rights situatio [...] | 2008-10-28 15:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CU ENRG ETRD EINV KDEM EUN XL EAID |
08BRUSSELS1662 | U.S.-EU COMPETITION CONSULTATIONS EMPHASIZE AREAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In October 20 annual consultations on competition policy, U.S. and EU officials emphasized areas of convergence on anti-trust policy and opportunities for cooperation and information sharing. A joint FTC-DoJ delegation represented the U.S. at the Brussels talks, while the EU [...] | 2008-10-28 15:56:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ECON EINV ETRD ENRG EUN |
08BRUSSELS1682 | BURMA: EU ADDITIONAL VIEWS ON BURMA'S GLOBAL FUND [...] (C) Per REF A instructions, Poloff reviewed U.S. position on the Global Fund in Burma with Andreas List, Burma Desk Officer at DG External Relations. Drawing upon REFTEL points, Poloff stressed the importance of obtaining a commitment from the Burmee Government up front in the Global Fund ap [...] | 2008-10-31 11:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KHIV PREL PHUM SOCI ETRD BM EUN |
08BRUSSELS1698 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES "GLOBAL EUROPE: [...] (U) Summary. On October 27, 2008, the European Commission published a report assessing the competitiveness of the European Union (EU) in the global economy. The report, entitled "Global Europe: competing in the world" concludes that since the mid-1990s, the EU has been able to broadly mainta [...] | 2008-11-05 16:58:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ECIN EINV ETRD EUN |
08BRUSSELS1741 | EU WILL RESUME TALKS WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel instructions, USEU spoke to French presidency, Council Secretariat, and Commission contacts about how the EU will deal with Russia at the November 10 GAERC and at the November 13-14 EU-Russia summit. All contacts told us that the EU would resume talks with Russia on [...] | 2008-11-14 13:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD RU GG EUN |
08BRUSSELS1744 | EU PROPOSES TO REGULATE CREDIT RATING AGENCIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 12, 2008, the European Commission published its proposal to regulate Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs). The proposed Regulation seeks to introduce a new mandatory registration and surveillance regime, and to harmonize rules on CRAs throughout the EU, ensuring that rati [...] | 2008-11-17 08:56:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS1757 | EU LEADERS PRAISE G20 SUMMIT OUTCOMES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. EU leaders expressed public and private approval over the G20 Financial Summit discussion and adoption of a detailed action plan. French President Sarkozy, British PM Brown, European Commission President Barroso and Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Almunia, all of whom [...] | 2008-11-19 17:26:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS1763 | MCCREEVY ON G-20 AND EU RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary. EU Internal Market Commissioner McCreevy told Ambassador Silverberg November 20 that: -the G-20 Leaders Summit accomplished as much could be expected given the U.S. Presidential transition; -it was still unclear how the EU will implement the G-20 action plan; -the Commission [...] | 2008-11-20 18:09:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS1773 | EU CONCERNED ABOUT SITUATION IN NICARAGUA BUT MAY [...] (C) PolOff delivered REF A demarche to the French EU Presidency on November 21, encouraging the EU to press for a recount of the disputed November 9 Nicaraguan municipal elections. French Latin America counselor Valerie Liang-Champrenault voiced the French EU Presidency's concern about the s [...] | 2008-11-21 18:06:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | XK UAID ETRD EUN |
08BRUSSELS1814 | NORWAY'S EMBRACING THE EU [...] (SBU) Summary: In several separate conversations with Emboffs, Norwegian diplomats posted to and visiting Brussels have described extensive Norwegian integration into EU structures as a status quo most Norwegians are comfortable with and unlikely to want to change in the near future. The cl [...] | 2008-12-02 14:59:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EU MARR MOPS NO PREL |
08BRUSSELS1858 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ILLICIT DIAMOND [...] (U) Economic officer delivered reftel demarche in a meeting on December 5 to Mr. Henk Mahieu, General Counsellor for Economic Issues, Ms. Karla Basselier, attache for Kimberley Process Issues, and Ms. Annick de Smedt, attache for Zimbabwean affairs, all from the Belgian Ministry of Foreign A [...] | 2008-12-08 11:20:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON EFIN ASEC ZI |
08BRUSSELS1864 | BELGIUM:COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION [...] (C) Belgium maintains diplomatic relations with Cuba through its Embassy in Havana and the Cuban Embassy in Brussels. FM De Gucht has not considered Cuba a priority during his ministry. No high level visits have taken place since Louis Michel was Foreign Minister from 1999-2003. Belgium has [...] | 2008-12-10 16:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU BE |
08BRUSSELS1873 | READ-OUT OF U.S.-EU TASK FORCE MEETING, DECEMBER 8, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S.-EU Task Force covered a range of top priority political, economic, and other bilateral issues during a December 8 meeting in Brussels. The U.S. team was led by EUR/PDAS Marcie Ries and USEU Charge Christopher Murray, and included NSC Director for Europe Kristina Kvien a [...] | 2008-12-12 10:31:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD EUN |
08BRUSSELS226 | USEU SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY JEFFERY'S [...] (SBU) Welcome to Brussels. Your visit comes at an opportune time, as the EU is struggling to develop a common energy policy, internally and externally. Recent Commission proposals on internal market liberalization and climate change measures have met with considerable skepticism from member [...] | 2008-02-08 18:20:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU SENV |
08BRUSSELS284 | US/EU ENERGY SECURITY DISCUSSIONS [...] (U) Summary. Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery and Special Envoy Gray learned during February 12 meetings with EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, CFSP High Representative Javier Solana, and industry reps [...] | 2008-02-21 06:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU |
08BRUSSELS295 | EU TREATY OF LISBON - NO MORE PILLARS; A SINGLE LEGAL [...] With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon (targeted for 2009),the current three-pillar structure of the EU will formally disappear. EU polices concerning economic integration, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the area of freedom, security and justice will all be brou [...] | 2008-02-26 08:03:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EUN PGOV ECIN ETRD PBTS |
08BRUSSELS303 | EU TREATY OF LISBON - NO MORE PILLARS; A SINGLE LEGAL [...] With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon (targeted for 2009),the current three-pillar structure of the EU will formally disappear. EU polices concerning economic integration, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the area of freedom, security and justice will all be brou [...] | 2008-02-26 17:04:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EUN PGOV ECIN ETRD PBTS |
08BRUSSELS306 | PIEBALGS UPBEAT ON EU ENERGY SECURITY [...] (U) Summary. EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs was surprisingly optimistic about Nabucco and European gas supply diversification in general during a February 22 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza and Special Envoy Gray. Piebalgs point [...] | 2008-02-27 11:41:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU |
08BRUSSELS314 | OMV ARGUES FOR ACCESS TO IRANIAN GAS FOR NABUCCO [...] (C) Summary. In a February 21 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza and Econ Officer, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer argued that the Nabucco project is at a critical stage, with his most important concern being gas supplies. Ruttenstorfer la [...] | 2008-02-29 10:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU RS IR |
08BRUSSELS500 | IRAN: EU UNITY UNWINDS IN TEHRAN AND BRUSSELS [...] (S/NF) Summary: EU experts have begun to transpose UNSCR 1803 into EU policy guidance and regulation for adoption at the April 28-29 Foreign Ministers' meeting (GAERC). However, French and British Permreps may prefer to delay EU follow-up action on UNSCR 1803 for several weeks in the hopes th [...] | 2008-04-04 10:58:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ETTC KNNP ETRD ENRG IR EUN |
08BRUSSELS534 | EU STRATEGY FOR THE SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR [...] (SBU) Summary. In an April 7 meeting, EU Commission officials discussed the EU's strategy for the Southern Gas Corridor to bring gas from the Caspian region to Europe. Jozias Van Aartsen, the EU's Coordinator for the Southern Gas Corridor, believes the EU and Turkey need to agree to prioriti [...] | 2008-04-09 05:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU TU |
08BRUSSELS590 | IRAQ PLEDGES 5 BCM/Y OF GAS TO EUROPE [...] (SBU) Summary. In meetings in Brussels this week Iraq's Oil Minister pledged to supply Europe with 5 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y) of gas. The gas would come from development of Iraq's western Akkas field and would be supplied to Europe by building pipeline interconnections between [...] | 2008-04-18 15:59:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU IZ SY TU |
08BRUSSELS644 | BELGIUM'S DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMS RUNNING HARD TO BE [...] SUMMARY: Belgium's Director General of Customs, Noel Colpin, is running hard to be elected as the new Secretary General of the World Custom Organization. He has the full support of his government. He has worked very closely with the Embassy for many years and was Belgium's chief negotiator [...] | 2008-04-28 14:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD BE |
08BRUSSELS704 | YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE MAY 13 TRANSATLANTIC [...] The U.S. Mission to the European Union and I welcome you to Brussels for the May 13 meeting of the Transatlantic Economic Council. This meeting will help realize President Bush and Chancellor Merkel's aspiration for greater transatlantic economic integration, but much will depend on the app [...] | 2008-05-09 15:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIND EINV EFIN EAGR ENRG WTO EUN |
08BRUSSELS733 | Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt meets with EU [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt met with EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy hours before the second meeting of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) meeting on May 1th, 2008. They discussed transition processes, the TEC, and insurance issues. They agreed to work on the Comm [...] | 2008-05-16 14:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS770 | TRANSATLANTIC REGULATORY DIALOGUE ADDRESSES [...] Summary: At the 25 April High Level Regulatory Cooperation Forum (HLRCF),senior U.S. and EU regulators discussed strengthening EU-US cooperation on import product safety, enhancing information sharing, collaborating on risk analysis, and the final joint OMB/Secretariat General report on the [...] | 2008-05-22 14:19:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EIND SENV SOCI EUN |
08BRUSSELS828 | BELGIUM: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD [...] Article 22b of the Belgian Constitution states that "each child has the right to the respect of its moral, physical, mental and sexual integrity." In 1992, the Belgian Parliament adopted legislation imposing a total ban on child labor. The legislation was put into effect through the Royal D [...] | 2008-06-02 12:47:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI BE |
08BRUSSELS881 | LUNCH SESSION OF TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMIC COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: At the May 13 U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council meeting in Brussels, principals held a private lunch where they discussed how to combat protectionism, responses to food crises, biotechnology and biofuels, and our respective approaches to Russia. On combating protectionism, p [...] | 2008-06-11 13:10:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN EAGR EIND EINV EFIN ENRG ETRD EUN RU |
08BRUSSELS892 | EU TREATY OF LISBON - JHA [...] Under the Treaty of Lisbon (entry in force targeted for 2009),the current three-pillar structure of the EU will formally disappear. Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters -- the so-called "third pillar" -- will become subject to the "Community" method under the renamed Treaty on [...] | 2008-06-12 14:32:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EUM PGOV KCRM ECIN ETRD PBTS |
08BRUSSELS894 | IRAN: EU EXPLAINS 1803 NEXT STEPS TO A/S O,BRIEN, [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Patrick O'Brien met senior EU and Member State representatives on May 14 and 15 to stress the importance of EU action on sanctions against Iran. EU interlocutors explained the current EU implementation status for UNS [...] | 2008-06-12 15:16:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PINR PTER KNNP |
08BRUSSELS924 | STATUS ON EU SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY:Our diplomatic and political efforts to speed up European implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) and related financial sanctions appear to be gaining traction following the President,s trip to European capitals and a trip by the European Union,s High Repr [...] | 2008-06-17 16:49:00 | USEU Brussels | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PINR PTER KNNP |
08BRUSSELS928 | EU READOUT OF SOLANA VISIT TO TEHRAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On June 17, EU Council contact characterized HiRep Solana's June 14 meetings in Tehran as "better than expected." FM Motaki insisted on linking Iran's response to the P5 1 incentives package to a P5 1 response to Iran's proposals, but Jalili said Iran would "carefully study" [...] | 2008-06-18 13:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM EFIN PTER KNNP ETTC ETRD KTFN AORC |
08BRUSSELS990 | IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IRISL CARGO INSPECTION [...] (S) Charge delivered the points in reftel to Werner Bauwens, the head of the MFA's Non-proliferation Office on June 30. He agreed to relay the points to all the relevant offices and agencies within the GOB. 2. (S) Bauwens noted that the EU had adopted sanctions based on UNSCR 1803 last Monday [...] | 2008-06-30 13:36:00 | Embassy Brussels | SECRET | ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD PARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN |
08BUCHAREST112 | ROMANIA CONSIDERS ENACTING THE SAFEGUARD CLAUSE ON [...] (C) Prime Minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu has asked Minister of the Environment Attila Korodi to take preliminary steps toward enacting a provisional safeguard clause to ban planting of MON 810 Bt corn, according to local agricultural biotechnology industry representatives. They speculate tha [...] | 2008-02-11 15:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO TBIO RO |
08BUCHAREST139 | 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW -- ROMANIA [...] (SBU) Post recommends that Romania remain on the Special 301 Watch List for 2008. Although industry contacts report that there has been a decline in physical optical disc piracy, the growth of internet piracy - both peer-to-peer file sharing and business-to-consumer piracy - is a worrisome tre [...] | 2008-02-21 06:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST325 | AMBASSADOR MEETS NEW JUSTICE MINISTER PREDIOU -- [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on April 22 with new Justice Minister Predoiu, to discuss bilateral cooperation on arrests and extraditions, concerns about maintaining strong IPR enforcement, and alarm over the final remaining bad amendment to the Romanian criminal and penal code that would e [...] | 2008-04-24 10:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD CJAN RO |
08BUCHAREST430 | ROMANIA: GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIPS DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-02 09:00:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT EAID ECIN ECON EFIS ETRD ENRG PHSA PINS |
08BUCHAREST481 | ROMANIAN RESPONSE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR IWC MEETING [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points in writing and followed up by phone with Mihai MANOIU, the Biodiversity Division Director at the Ministry of Environment, on June 13, 2008. Manoiu admitted that the Government of Romania (GOR) has not given too much attention to whaling, having just joined [...] | 2008-06-17 04:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD RO |
08BUCHAREST491 | ROMANIA'S ECONOMY CHARGES AHEAD, BUT INFLATION LOOMS AS A [...] (U) Defying expectations of a slowdown in light of global conditions, the GOR reported that Romania's economy grew in the first quarter at a very impressive 8.2 percent annual rate over the same period last year. Growth was chiefly driven by the spectacular expansion in construction. However [...] | 2008-06-18 10:38:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EFIN RO |
08BUCHAREST504 | ROMANIA: SMALL FIRST QUARTER BUDGET SURPLUS MASKS LIKELY [...] (SBU) Recently released data shows the Government of Romania (GOR) posted a small consolidated budget surplus of USD $32.3 million in the first quarter of 2008, or the equivalent of 0.02 percent of expected GDP. For this year, the GOR has already cut its deficit target by 0.4 percent to 2.3 p [...] | 2008-06-19 10:42:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EIND PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST562 | ROMANIA: CENTRAL BANK ON CREDIT MARKETS, INFLATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary. At a June 27 roundtable to discuss the Romanian central bank's (BNR) stance on credit growth and its impact on other economic fundamentals, BNR Governor Mugur Isarescu stressed that BNR's recent tighter monetary policy does not aim to stop non-government credit growth, but inste [...] | 2008-07-14 05:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND RO |
08BUCHAREST571 | ROMANIA, HUNGARY TO INTERCONNECT GAS NETWORKS [...] (U) A long-postponed project to link Romanian and Hungarian natural gas networks through a cross-border connection took an important step forward on July 2 with the signing of a Joint Development Agreement between firms MOL of Hungary and Transgaz of Romania. The 109 km connector pipeline wil [...] | 2008-07-16 05:33:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETRD HU RO |
08BUCHAREST574 | ROMANIA: POLICYMAKERS ATTUNED TO INFLATION AS ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Rising inflation is capturing the attention of Romanian policymakers and is likely to play a significant role in the upcoming election season. Annualized inflation (June 2007 to June 2008) is up to 8.61 percent, with price increases in consumer staples acutely affecting consum [...] | 2008-07-21 08:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST575 | ROMANIA: TOURISM GROWING, BUT FALLING SHORT OF POTENTIAL [...] (SBU) Romania offers travelers an intriguing if complicated mix of stunning scenery and rich culture and history, juxtaposed with generally poor infrastructure, widespread litter, and often-disappointing service quality. Industry experts say that although the travel and tourism sector is expan [...] | 2008-07-21 11:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD RO |
08BUCHAREST578 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRANIAN ENTITIES DESIGNATED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 09:52:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ENRG KNNP EFIN PARM IR ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST647 | ROMANIA : PROPERTY FUND IS HIRING PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The long process of establishing a property restitution fund to reimburse former owners of certain expropriated properties is finally drawing to a close. The four billion Euro fund has already distributed nearly 20 percent of its outstanding shares and is in the final stages of [...] | 2008-08-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON CASC PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST675 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ADDITIONAL DESIGNATED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ENRG ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST717 | ROMANIA: SEN. LUGAR PRESSES MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Highlighting his experience as a farmer, visiting Senator Richard Lugar on August 28 encouraged Minister of Environment Attila Korodi to permit the use of more advanced agricultural methods in Romania, including biotechnology. Korodi indicated a willingness to reevaluate his p [...] | 2008-09-10 11:38:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ENRG ECON PGOV PREL TBIO RO |
08BUCHAREST739 | ROMANIA: STRONG GROWTH CONTINUES, BUT AT AN INFLATIONARY [...] (U) Summary. Romania's economy posted higher-than-expected growth in the first half of 2008, prompting renewed worries of over-heating in the near future. The construction, services, industrial and retail sectors drove the growth rate to 8.8% over the same period last year. However, the imp [...] | 2008-09-22 09:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EFIN RO |
08BUCHAREST812 | ROMANIA: BY TAPPING ON THE BRAKES, THE CENTRAL BANK KEEPS [...] (SBU) Summary. Several factors particular to the Romanian economy have reduced the local impact of the global financial crisis. Overall, Romania's financial and banking system has sufficient liquidity and is not expected to experience any negative short-term repercussions from the current cr [...] | 2008-10-23 09:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND RO |
08BUCHAREST9 | ROMANIA PASSES 2008 BUDGET WITH VOTERS IN MIND [...] (SBU) Clearly padded to reflect political calculations ahead of local and national elections over the next 24 months, the Government of Romania's 2008 budget includes sizable increases for education, health care, social services, and retirement pensions. The Parliament approved the state and [...] | 2008-01-09 07:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV SOCI RO |
08BUCHAREST920 | ROMANIA'S ECONOMY SET FOR A LANDING, BUT HOW HARD? [...] (C) The forward momentum in Romania's red-hot economy is already slowing and will definitely hit the brakes in 2009, government officials and outside analysts told visiting U.S. Treasury representatives last week. Still, while Romania can expect sharply lower growth due to the global downturn, the [...] | 2008-11-25 15:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST964 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON CUBA LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) In response to questions in reftel, the Government of Romania (GOR) has worked to promote democracy and human rights in Cuba and has only a limited trading relationship with the island. Relations between the two countries are complicated by an outstanding trade dispute, in which the GOR b [...] | 2008-12-10 06:49:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU RO |
08BUDAPEST1179 | OUTREACH TO HUNGARY ON IMPLEMENTATION OF AMENDED [...] On December 8, ESTH Hub Officer and ESTH FSN delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Katalin Rodics, Head of the Ministry of Environment and Water's Department for European Community Law and Coordination. Rodics welcomed the implementation of the amended Lacey Act, indicating that the EU is working [...] | 2008-12-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO HU |
08BUDAPEST1180 | HUNGARY: COUNTRY REVIEW ON RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (C) The DCM met with MFA's America's Department Director Szilveszter Bus on December 9 to discuss ref A. Post views Hungary as a strong supporter of democracy development in Cuba. Although the GoH has joined the EU consensus on lifting the embargo, they view the U.S. approach as appropriate [...] | 2008-12-10 12:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC HU |
08BUDAPEST799 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 08:46:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD BM HU |
08BUENOSAIRES1011 | MID-YEAR STATUS REPORT ON BILAT ECONOMIC ISSUES: [...] (C) This cable provides status of bilateral economic issues: Paris Club, holdouts, ExImBank tolling agreement, Post advocacy and ICSID cases, as well as updates on GoA/IMF relations and GoA finances. New Economy Mnister Carlos Fernandez supported his predecessor's Paris Club proposal to make [...] | 2008-07-24 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1048 | FOREIGN BANKERS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE IN [...] (C) Foreign financial sector representatives gave visiting Treasury DAS Brian O'Neill a pessimistic assessment of the state of the Argentine economy and prospects for improvements in GoA economic policies during a July 11 meeting. They agreed on the likelihood of a sharp economic deceleration [...] | 2008-07-30 19:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1051 | A/S SHANNON ENGAGES WITH GOA OFFICIALS AT U.S.-ARGENTINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In connection with the July 10-11 bilateral consultations with the GOA, A/S Shannon used a lunch, dinner and an unscheduled meeting with FM Taiana to raise regional and global issues with GOA officials. At lunch, the GOA expressed frustration with the Doha Development Round but [...] | 2008-07-31 12:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD PTER BO CO PY MX IR UY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1068 | A/S SHANNON ENGAGES WITH GOA OFFICIALS AT U.S.-ARGENTINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In connection with the July 10-11 bilateral consultations with the GOA, A/S Shannon used a lunch, dinner and an unscheduled meeting with FM Taiana to raise regional and global issues with GOA officials. At lunch, the GOA expressed frustration with the Doha Development Round but [...] | 2008-08-04 09:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD PTER PINR BO CO PY MX IR UY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1079 | LULA VISITS ARGENTINA TO ADDRESS BILATERAL TRADE FRICTIONS [...] (SBU) Brazilian President Lula da Silva arrives in Buenos Aires August 3 with a 300-strong delegation of private sector representatives shortly after a very public split between Argentina and Brazil on agricultural subsidy and industrial tariffs in end-game WTO Doha negotiations. Lula's meetin [...] | 2008-08-04 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EAGR WTRO AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1089 | ARGENTINA: CFK BOOSTED BY LULA, CHAVEZ VISITS, MIXED [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) used overlapping August 3-5 visits by Brazil's President Lula and Venezuelan President Chavez to try to regain political momentum. Lula's visit focused on renewed Argentine-Brazilian commercial collaboration following a damaging public diverg [...] | 2008-08-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD WTRO AR BR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES1116 | Argentina's Growing Trade Deficit with Brazil Spotlights [...] (SBU) President Lula's August 3-4 visit to Argentina has focused attention on Argentina's 62-month-long string of bilateral trade deficits with Brazil. Brazil is Argentina's number one trading partner and this bilateral merchandise trade deficit, up 47% y-o-y to US$ 3 billion in just the first [...] | 2008-08-09 16:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV EAGR AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1150 | ARGENTINA: CANDID TALK FROM BUENOS AIRES MAYOR MAURICIO MACRI ON CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Senior Professional Staffer of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Carl Meacham and the DCM, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri criticized the Kirchners for pushing their policies to the limit and spoke directly about concerns that President Cristina Fernandez de K [...] | 2008-08-14 20:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1154 | Argentine Trade Officials on Doha: Optimistic Words, [...] (SBU) Nestor Stancanelli, a senior GoA trade official, expressed pique at Brazil's decision to favor an end-game WTO Doha round compromise proposal on agriculture and NAMA tariffs, but argued that intra-Mercosur relations between Argentina and Brazil remain good. In a Doha post-mortem, he argue [...] | 2008-08-15 14:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EIND PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1159 | ARGENTINA: MEETING WITH PRO-U.S./PRO-KIRCHNER [...] (C) Summary: On August 13, Chaco Governor Jorge Capitanich, a close ally of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),said the administration faces four big challenges: 1) tackling inflation, 2) reducing subsidies; 3) repaying the Paris Club debt; and 4) setting the future agenda in the [...] | 2008-08-15 22:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES116 | Argentina 2007 Trade in Goods: Trade Up, Surplus Down [...] (U) Argentina exports grew at a 20% rate in calendar 2007 and imports jumped by 31%, according to a report released by GoA statistics agency INDEC on January 25. 2007 exports totaled US$55.9 billion and imports were US$ 44.8 billion, with Argentina's net trade surplus of $11.2 billion down 9.4 [...] | 2008-01-31 17:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1160 | Argentina Rides Bond-Price Rollercoaster Amid Market [...] (SBU) A series of interrelated events the week of August 4-8, including the GoA's private sale of US$1 billion in sovereign bonds to Venezuela at a high yield, prompted a significant drop in GoA bond prices and a climb in Argentina's country risk premium to 741 basis points. On August 10, the [...] | 2008-08-15 22:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1202 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: On August 26, the Ambassador had a warm and encouraging meeting with new Argentine Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa, 36, who replaced Alberto Fernandez as the senior member of the cabinet. Displaying the vigor and charm for which he is well-known, Massa pointedly said his operating sty [...] | 2008-08-27 20:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD PTER PINR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1218 | Argentina: Government Subsidy Increases Could Squeeze [...] (SBU) Government subsidies, mostly for energy, transportation, and food, have been surging in 2008 and threaten to undermine one of the pillars of the GOA's economic model, a primary fiscal surplus in the range of 3% of GDP. In the first half of 2008, the GOA spent over US$4 billion on subsidi [...] | 2008-08-29 20:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV EINV EAGR ENRG ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1220 | GOA ECONOMIC OFFICIALS DEFEND MODEL, PROMISE TO [...] (C) A Buenos Aires Council of the Americas (CoA) conference convoked key members of the GoA's economic team, including new Chief of Cabinet Sergio Massa, Central Bank President Martin Redrado, and Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez. To an audience of domestic and international business leaders [...] | 2008-08-29 21:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1263 | Argentina: Seizing the Bilateral Opportunity - Building on [...] (SBU) The GoA's surprise September 2 announcement that it will soon pay all Paris Club debt, which would include fully clearing some $402 million in arrears to the USG, opens the door to Argentina's normalization with official USG credit agencies. Once arrears to the USG are reconciled and cle [...] | 2008-09-10 19:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV OPIC EXIM BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1264 | Argentina: Rising Trade with Iran Prompts Jewish Community [...] (SBU) Bilateral trade between Argentina and Iran has grown rapidly in 2008, increasing to US$ 483 million in the first half of 2008 from under US$ 5 million in the first half of 2007, driven mainly by Argentine agricultural exports. Paradoxically, the increase in bilateral trade follows Argent [...] | 2008-09-10 19:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PTER PREL AR IR |
08BUENOSAIRES1270 | FED GOVERNOR KROSZNER HEARS LITANY OF LOCAL [...] (C) During a visit that coincided with the Argentine President's surprise announcement that the GoA would pay Paris Club debts (reftels),Federal Reserve Bank Governor Randall Kroszner received a pessimistic message about the future of the Argentine economy from industrialists, economists, ban [...] | 2008-09-11 15:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1274 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT PROPOSES REGIONAL [...] (C) U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Governor Randall Kroszner pointed to signs that slowing growth and higher inflation in advanced economies are beginning to impact emerging markets during his keynote speech at the Argentine Central Bank's (BCRA) annual monetary and banking conference. He argued t [...] | 2008-09-12 18:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1283 | U.S.-Argentina Bilateral Energy Consultations on Renewable [...] (SBU) U.S.-Argentina binational working group on alternative energy and energy efficiency met September 11 in Buenos Aires to advance cooperation under the July 2008 U.S.-Argentina Memorandum of Intention (MoI) on Renewable and Clean Energy. The GoA underscored its intention to advance bilate [...] | 2008-09-15 14:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV TRGY PREL ETRD EINV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1285 | Argentina: No Movement on Bilat Trade Issues, or Doha [...] (SBU) In a September 4 meeting with visiting Codel, Argentine Foreign Minister Taiana and other Foreign Ministry officials protested the lack of U.S. market access for Argentine lemons and beef, but had no response to Codel requests for Argentina to allow imports of U.S. beef and poultry. Code [...] | 2008-09-15 19:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR PREL PTER AR BL IR |
08BUENOSAIRES1286 | GOA PUSHES FORWARD ON PARIS CLUB REPAYMENT, [...] (C) Amid media rumors of internal debate over President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's pledge to pay the Paris Club, GoA officials continue to move the proposal forward. Central Bank President Martin Redrado and Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino confirm that CFK has approved a plan to begin [...] | 2008-09-15 22:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1302 | Argentina's Customs Agency: A Bright Spot on IPR and [...] (SBU) Argentina's Customs Director Silvina Tiribassi spoke on September 12 with Ambassador about her agency's efforts to protect intellectual property and encouraged additional information-sharing initiatives with the USG on the model of the successful Trade Transparency Unit and Container Secu [...] | 2008-09-17 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PREL ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1303 | EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT USING [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's September 2 announcement that the GoA intends to use Central Bank reserves to pay Paris Club debt has spawned a local debate over the various legal and financial ramifications of using reserves for this purpose. The main issues relate to [...] | 2008-09-17 21:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1330 | ABOUT-FACE: ARGENTINE PRESIDENT MAKES SURPRISE [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) made a surprise announcement yesterday that the GoA is considering a proposal by three banks to re-open the 2005 debt exchange to holdout bondholders. Barclays, Citi, and Deutsche Bank have developed the proposal, which will cover [...] | 2008-09-23 22:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1336 | Tri-Border and Argentina Public-Private Dialogue on [...] (SBU) Wayne Paugh, Department of Commerce Coordinator for International Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement, delivered a positive message in support of IP protection during a series of events in Argentina. Paugh met with the Argentine Customs Director, where both emphasized the importance o [...] | 2008-09-25 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PREL ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1374 | ARGENTINA: GOA STRUGGLES TO RESPOND TO [...] (SBU) A "Coordinating Table" chaired by Chief of Cabinet Sergio Massa and including senior Economy Ministry, Central Bank, and financial sector regulatory officials is to meet today, October 7, to organize GoA-wide management of currency, trade, budget, and debt policies in response to the int [...] | 2008-10-07 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1377 | ARGENTINE ECONOMISTS PREDICT GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) Three prominent Argentine economists told visiting WHA DAS Chris McMullen October 2 that the global financial crisis will have a bigger impact on Argentina's real economy than its financial sector, due to the country's relative isolation from international capital markets. They noted that [...] | 2008-10-08 14:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1389 | Argentine Congress' Budget Review Clouded by Global [...] (SBU) The Argentine legislature is set to amend the 2008 budget and pass the 2009 budget in the face of a deteriorating external environment and increasing anxiety about its impact on Argentina's economy and finances. The 2008 bill increases expenditures in 2008 by about US$11.5 billion due to [...] | 2008-10-09 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1395 | GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS COMPLICATES ARGENTINE PARIS [...] (C) Rumors are circulating in Argentina that the GoA will delay payment of Paris Club debts (Reftel) due to concerns about weakening the Central Bank at a time of great economic and financial uncertainty. The press on October 8 & 9 quoted Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo confirming the GoA [...] | 2008-10-09 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1396 | GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS COMPLICATES ARGENTINA'S [...] (C) The global financial crisis is complicating negotiations between private foreign banks and the GoA over the reopening of both the debt exchange to Holdout bondholders and the simultaneous debt swap for bonds coming due 2009-2011. GoA and Citibank contacts confirm that no deals are possibl [...] | 2008-10-09 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1397 | CITIBANK-ARGENTINA PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS IMPACT OF [...] (C) Citi-Argentina President Juan Jose Bruchou (protect) told Ambassador October 7 that the Argentine banking sector is starting to feel the pinch of the global financial crisis and accompanying flight to quality. While providing assurances that the Argentine financial sector is reasonably st [...] | 2008-10-09 19:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1398 | Argentina Structures Modest Development Bank on Brazil [...] (SBU) Former Economy Minister Miguel Peirano is now working to transform Argentina's state-owned Bank for Commerce and External Trade (BICE) into a development bank on the model of Brazil's BNDES. He argues that countries with such unstable economic and financial histories as Argentina and Bra [...] | 2008-10-09 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1400 | Argentina Calls for Emergency Mercosur Summit to Address [...] (U) On October 8, Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana announced he would ask his fellow Mercosur Foreign Ministers as well as Economy Ministers to hold an emergency summit regarding the global financial crisis. Daily La Nacion quoted a "high-ranking government official" as saying that "the [...] | 2008-10-10 14:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1415 | Argentine President Announces "Administered Trade" Policy [...] (SBU) Responding to fears that slower global growth and a significant Brazilian devaluation will prompt waves of cheap imports "dumped" on the Argentine market, GoA President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced an "administered trade" and safeguard policy to protect local employment [...] | 2008-10-15 17:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1427 | Argentina: American Chamber Describes Investment [...] (SBU) As the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina celebrates its ninetieth anniversary, member company reps noted to visiting WHA DAS McMullen their long and successful tenures in Argentina's historically volatile economic environment. U.S. companies remain broadly profitable, and a numbe [...] | 2008-10-17 12:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1443 | Argentina's auto sector still somewhat strong despite [...] (U) The Argentine auto sector is on track for another record-breaking year in 2008, in spite of the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Argentine economy and recent high profile media reports of slowdowns in sales and planned layoffs. Production, sales, and exports are at all-t [...] | 2008-10-21 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD ELAB AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1451 | SPANISH-ARGENTINE RELATIONS: SPAIN WAITING OUT TOUGH TIMES [...] (SBU) SBU Ambassador met with Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Rafael Estrella Pedrola, on October 16 to compare notes on recent developments. Estrella (protect) explained that Spanish-Argentine relations have been going through difficult times, in large part due to the GoA decision to nationa [...] | 2008-10-23 09:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAIR EFIN EINV PREL AR SP |
08BUENOSAIRES1489 | BRAZIL-ARGENTINA COORDINATE ON G-20, DIFFER ON [...] (C) On October 27, Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina Mauro Vieira (protect strictly) told the Ambassador that while Brazil and Argentina differed on the proper trade policy response to the current economic crisis, Brazil would be patient with its neighbor and would work to encourage a constru [...] | 2008-10-29 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1495 | Argentina: Global Crisis Threatens Export Growth, Trade [...] (SBU) Argentina's strong goods export performance in the aftermath of the 2001/02 financial crisis has stalled, a victim of plunging world commodity prices and slower global growth projections. From a projected 2008 trade surplus in the $12 billion range, local economists now see the 2009 surp [...] | 2008-10-30 17:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1529 | ARGENTINE MARKETS RECOVER, BUT WITH RISING [...] (U) This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels or in any public forum without the written concurrence of the originator. It should not be posted on the internet. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) After two weeks of financial marke [...] | 2008-11-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1533 | ARGENTINE OFFICIALS PRIVATELY ADMIT PARIS CLUB [...] (C) Senior Argentine government (GoA) and Central Bank (BCRA) officials privately confirm to Post what local and foreign press have taken as a given for weeks: in the current crisis environment, the GoA has put its Paris Club payment, debt exchange with private "holdout" bondholders, and a lin [...] | 2008-11-05 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1537 | Argentina: G-20 Trade Policy Position [...] (SBU) Despite a relatively protectionist response to the global financial crisis, Argentina trade officials say they will work towards consensual and practical trade policy communique language at the G-20 Summit. Argentina will, however, likely object to any Summit calls to resuscitate WTO Do [...] | 2008-11-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1558 | ARGENTINA: 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] (U) Per reftel, the following is Post's submission to USTR's 2009 National Trade Estimate. TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade surplus with Argentina was $1.4 billion in 2007, an increase of $563 million from $797 million in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $5.9 billion, up 22.6 perce [...] | 2008-11-14 20:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1589 | Argentina and Brazil Consider New Trade Barriers [...] (SBU) Argentine and Brazilian officials discussed in Argentina November 17 a new Brazilian plan to subsidize consumer auto financing that will include autos imported from Argentina. They also reviewed recently imposed Argentine non-tariff barriers and Argentina and Brazil's common interest in [...] | 2008-11-21 18:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1623 | Plan B: Argentina Announces Robust Public Works, Tax [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced November 25 an ambitious US$21 billion public works plan to stimulate the economy, boost employment, and counter the impact on Argentina of the global financial crisis. She also proposed the creation of a new Ministry of Produc [...] | 2008-11-28 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1632 | ARGENTINA: MEXICAN PRESIDENT CALDERON'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexican President Felipe Calderon paid a state visit to Argentina November 23-25, renewing a diplomatic relationship that had been relatively limited since the 2005 Summit of the Americas at Mar de Plata, despite growing commercial ties over that period. GOA officials emphasize [...] | 2008-12-01 18:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SNAR ETRD EFIN AR MX |
08BUENOSAIRES1667 | Argentina Announces Economic Stimulus Package [...] (SBU) One week after announcing a 71 billion public works plan (Ref A),President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) unveiled an additional ARP 13.2 billion (US$3.9 billion) "economic incentives" package, designed to "revive and stimulate production, investment, jobs, and consumption, and all [...] | 2008-12-05 18:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD EAGR PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1673 | Argentina: U.S. Private Sector Players Downbeat on [...] (SBU) U.S. private sector players in the finance, accounting, and energy fields are downbeat on Argentina's medium-term economic prospects. In a November 25 lunch hosted by Ambassador for visiting State Department CFO Brad Higgins, they predicted the Kirchner administration's political base wi [...] | 2008-12-09 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1681 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT REPRISES HER CRITIQUE OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) indulged in an increasingly familiar critique of the international system during a two-day visit to Russia December 9-10, taking jabs implicitly at the U.S. and blaming "unilateralism" for economic and security hardships in the wor [...] | 2008-12-11 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD PHUM ECON EAGR RU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1685 | Argentina: Inflation Down as Economy Slows [...] (SBU) In line with Argentina's economic slowdown, real monthly consumer inflation rates have decelerated over the past five months from the 25% range to an something near 20% in November 2008. Food and beverage inflation, an important contributor to poverty measures, is showing the largest dec [...] | 2008-12-12 12:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1696 | Argentina: Lavagna Decries GoA Crisis Initiatives, Projects [...] (SBU) Former Economy Minister and Presidential Candidate Roberto Lavagna in a December 11 meeting with Ambassador projected stagflation in 2009, with zero percent GDP growth but with real inflation not falling below 20%, and warned about money laundering concerns related to GoA legislation; se [...] | 2008-12-15 20:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1708 | Argentina: World Bank Country Director Cautions on Economy [...] (SBU) The local World Bank (WB) Country Director (protect) sees the GoA "walking a tightrope" in terms of its capacity to maintain market confidence, stem capital flight, and sustain twin fiscal and current account surpluses in a context of economic slowdown, continued high rates of GoA public [...] | 2008-12-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1723 | Argentina Trade Updates: No New MERCOSUR Protectionism, [...] (SBU) Argentina's Foreign Ministry announced December 15 that MERCOSUR made an unexpectedly non-protectionist decision NOT to raise the trade bloc's common external tariff on a short list of products during a December 14 meeting prior to the December 16 MERCOSUR summit in Brazil. MERCOSUR's la [...] | 2008-12-19 19:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1725 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, DECEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 1-19, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inc [...] | 2008-12-19 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1750 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, DECEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 19 - 24, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be [...] | 2008-12-24 17:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1760 | ARGENTINA: AMERICAN CHAMBER DESCRIBES [...] (SBU) CODEL Meeks received a first-hand understanding of the commercial opportunities and challenges faced by U.S. companies operating in Argentina during a roundtable discussion with American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AmCham) member companies on December 17, 2008. Discussion focused o [...] | 2008-12-30 12:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES188 | Argentine Economy Minister Prioritizes Paris Club [...] (SBU) GOA Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, in his second meeting with the Ambassador, called a Paris Club settlement an important -- but not urgent -- priority of the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration. He called any formal role for the IMF in a rescheduling politically unpalatable [...] | 2008-02-15 15:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EFIN ETRD |
08BUENOSAIRES190 | Argentina: U.S. Silver Mining Company Coeur Earns Solid [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation has completed construction of a $15 million silver processing mill at their Santa Cruz province mine site that is adding domestic value and generating employment. President Cristina Kirchner is expected to attend the plant's March 19 i [...] | 2008-02-15 18:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV ENRG BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES231 | ARGENTINA'S 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) In 2007, Argentine authorities responsible for providing "adequate and effective protection to intellectual property rights" made few meaningful improvements in IPR legislation, regulation and enforcement, and there remain serious weaknesses in each of these areas. Customs authorities' i [...] | 2008-02-26 10:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES245 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JANUARY [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 28 - February 22, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state. [...] | 2008-02-27 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES253 | ARGENTINA: GOA DOWNBEAT ON DOHA SERVICES "SIGNALING" [...] (SBU) In a sharp response to Ref A letter from USTR Schwab on upcoming WTO Doha Development Round (DDR) services negotiations, Foreign Ministry Trade Secretary Alfredo Chiaradia argued that Schwab's linking the USG's ability to agree to modalities on Agriculture and NAMA to our confidence in an [...] | 2008-02-29 07:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EINV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES336 | Embassy Buenos Aires' IPR Strategic Plan: 2007 Report Card [...] (SBU) Post recently submitted our 2008 Special 301 recommendation that Argentina remain, for the 13th consecutive year, on USTR's Priority Watch List (Ref A). Given the myriad challenges and deficiencies of the Argentine IPR regime, Post in 2007 developed a strategic plan (Ref C) to integrate [...] | 2008-03-17 18:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES403 | ARGENTINA: AMCHAM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DEPLORES [...] (C) Members of the American Chamber (AmCham) Executive Committee are concerned by the GoA,s confrontational response to the nation's agricultural crisis, arguing that policy-making concentrated in a small, closed group of senior GoA officials (President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, her hus [...] | 2008-04-01 19:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD BEXP PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES415 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURE SECTOR SUSPENDS STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's four main agricultural organizations lifted their strike on April 2 for 30 days to hold discussions with the GOA. Roadblocks have been lifted throughout the country and food supplies are arriving in Buenos Aires and other major cities. Local papers report that basic [...] | 2008-04-03 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES421 | (U) ARGENTINA: STRIKE'S ECONOMIC COSTS VS. ITS $$ [...] (C) Now that the Argentine farm sector,s strike measures have been lifted, at least for 30 days (Ref A),it is worth examining just why the GoA chose this particular moment to boost export taxes, and what economic costs the three-week strike have imposed on the Argentine economy. In our view, [...] | 2008-04-04 16:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR EINV ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES433 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MARCH 17 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period March 17 - April 4, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to [...] | 2008-04-07 18:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES435 | ARGENTINA: Ambassador Discusses Farm Strike with [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with one of the largest soybean producers in Argentina the day after the agricultural strike was suspended for 30 days. Government supporters have responded to the agricultural strike by attacking large producers and soybean production in general. The agricultur [...] | 2008-04-08 14:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES442 | Argentina: U.S. Mining Company Coeur Inaugurates New Silver [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 19, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner inaugurated Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation's new US$15 million silver processing mill in Santa Cruz province (where former President Nestor Kirchner was Governor before becoming President in 2003). The new mill a [...] | 2008-04-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EIND ETRD EINV ECON PGOV BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES463 | ENGAGING ECONOMY MINISTER LOUSTEAU ON PARIS CLUB, [...] (C) Treasury Secretary Paulson's April 11 meeting with Economy Minister Martin Lousteau offers an opportunity to engage the senior GoA official charged by President Kirchner with resolving Argentina's pariah status in international capital markets. Lousteau is in a fight for his political lif [...] | 2008-04-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES472 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FSI ECONOMICS DIVISION [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to FSI Economics Division Professor Lynda D. Vargha for the period of April 19-26, 2008. The purpose of the trip is an orientation to Economic Section work and training requirements. 2. Embassy Buenos Aires Control Officer will be ECON Office [...] | 2008-04-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AMGT AFSI AFSN ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES478 | ARGENTINA: SENATE VP JUAN CARLOS ROMERO [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with Senate Vice President Juan Carlos Romero of the Kirchners' National Victory Front (FPV) on April 4 in his office to discuss greater bilateral legislative cooperation. Romero has occasionally been critical of GOA policy in the past and publicly disagreed wit [...] | 2008-04-14 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES495 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HARVARD TRIP, DOW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met April 15 with the mayor of Bahia Blanca, Cristian Breitenstein, who had recently returned from a brief course of study at Harvard University. Young, dynamic and pro-American, Breitenstein identified priorities for his first full term in office, including expan [...] | 2008-04-17 15:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BEXP EINV ENRG EPET ETRD SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES496 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TAKEN BY SURPRISE AS CHAVEZ [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of Venezuela's (GOV) announcement that it would nationalize Venezuela's largest steelmaker, Ternium Sidor, majority-owned by Argentine interests, has rattled local markets and complicated the relationship between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (C [...] | 2008-04-17 17:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EIND ETRD AR VE BR MX |
08BUENOSAIRES50 | Government Policies and Argentine Agriculture -- Lower [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government policies in Argentina have reduced prices paid for goods from the most important agricultural sectors (oilseeds, grains, beef and dairy) an estimated 30 to 40 percent below world market prices. The lower prices are due to GoA intervention in the market to keep down d [...] | 2008-01-15 10:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES506 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, APRIL 7 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period April 7 - 18, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2008-04-18 20:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES540 | ARGENTINA POISED FOR RESUMPTION OF AGRICULTURAL [...] (C) Summary: The 30-day truce called by Argentine farmers in their conflict with the GOA may come to an end without a negotiated solution to address the agricultural sector's grievances. Agricultural sector contacts tell us that lack of progress in the negotiations is bringing Argentina close [...] | 2008-04-25 09:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR EIND ETRD ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES575 | ARGENTINA HIGH-LEVEL MEETING AGENDA [...] (SBU) Following up on WHA A/S Shannon's April 10-11 meetings with Argentine FM Taiana and their agreement in principle to hold in June in Buenos Aires a meeting under the auspices of the Special Process of Regular High-Level Bilateral Consultations, emboffs met with MFA officials April 17 to de [...] | 2008-05-02 17:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM ETRD SENV SCUL PTER SNAR KJUS XM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES58 | Argentina: 2008 Investment Climate Statement [...] Argentina remains open to foreign investment. Five consecutive years of real GDP growth over 8 percent have attracted considerable U.S. and other international investor interest in exploring opportunities in the Argentine market. The government of Argentina, in turn, has signaled its desire [...] | 2008-01-16 11:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD OPIC KTDB USTR PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES589 | ARGENTINA: A/S SHANNON MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: April 11 A/S Shannon and Ambassador Wayne agreed with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana and his team to revive and modify a mechanism for bilateral dialogue. The approved concept sets out two additional bilateral meetings under the 1997 "Framework of Understanding between [...] | 2008-05-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EINV PTER TSPL ETRD SNAR SCUL |
08BUENOSAIRES592 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS MAKE LITTLE PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on limited progress in agricultural negotiations, farm sector leaders extended their truce with the GOA from May 2 to May 6, but in the absence of any additional progress it appears likely that strikes will resume in some fashion. GOA and farming leaders did not reach agre [...] | 2008-05-06 20:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ELAB ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES622 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, APRIL 21 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period April 21 - May 5, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be [...] | 2008-05-09 18:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES629 | ARGENTINA INFLATION CONTROVERSY: GOA TO LAUNCH NEW [...] (C) The GoA plans to roll out a "new and improved" consumer price index (CPI) in June to allow national statistics agency INDEC to recover some of its lost credibility. The new index will measure a narrower basket of goods and services and will allow product weightings to be changed frequentl [...] | 2008-05-12 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV AR EFIN |
08BUENOSAIRES634 | Argentina: Negative Reaction to Special 301 Priority Watch [...] (SBU) GoA interlocutors in the Foreign Ministry reacted negatively to USTR's placement of Argentina on the Special 301 Priority Watch List (PWL) for the thirteenth straight year. Econoff delivered Reftel demarche to Luis Niscovolos, Director of Multilateral Economic Negotiations in the Argenti [...] | 2008-05-12 20:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES642 | ARGENTINA AT THE MAY 16-17 EU-LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana are scheduled to visit Lima May 16-17 to attend the Summit Meeting of European Union - Latin American and the Caribbean (EU - LAC). CFK appears to have a full but still-unconfirmed schedule, with GO [...] | 2008-05-14 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES687 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S LOW-PROFILE PARTICIPATION IN EU - LAC [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) met (low) expectations (ref A) at the Summit Meeting of Leaders of the European Union - Latin America and the Caribbean ( EU - LAC),holding a number of bilateral meetings but dodging the press. In the Mercosur - EU bilateral, CFK [...] | 2008-05-20 21:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECIN ECON ENRG ETRD ETTC SOCI TSPL |
08BUENOSAIRES70 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, January 1-11, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 1-11, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts SIPDIS tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2008-01-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES712 | ARGENTINA'S CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT AVERTS [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado told Ambassador May 19 that the mini-run on Argentine banks and on the peso in early May proved that the "wounds are still open" from the 2001/2002 crisis. Apparently accelerating inflation and the GoA's failure to resolve the now thr [...] | 2008-05-23 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES713 | (C) ARGENTINA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) Embassy Buenos Aires keys the responses below to reftel A questions. 2. (SBU) NATURE OF INVESTMENTS THAT ARGENTINA BUSINESSES HAVE IN CUBA. The GoA imposes no requirement to register foreign direct investment, and the Embassy has been unable to uncover any major investment by Argentine [...] | 2008-05-23 20:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETTC PREL ETRD CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES727 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ECONOMY, FDI, & AG [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with Mario Das Neves, Governor of Chubut May 23. Most notably Das Neves (protect strictly) sharply criticized both sides for failure to resolve the agriculture strike, specifically criticizing the negotiations for acting in bad faith. He expressed fear that [...] | 2008-05-28 13:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON EFIS EINV ENRG EPET ETRD |
08BUENOSAIRES753 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 6 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 6 - 23, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2008-05-30 21:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES754 | NEW ECONOMY MINISTER STILL GETTING UP TO SPEED [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly appointed Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez May 28, highlighting Paris Club and advocacy on behalf of U.S. investors as key issues to discuss in future meetings. The Minister said he is getting up to speed on the issues, but is mostly foc [...] | 2008-05-30 21:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES757 | High Commodity Prices Boost Argentina's Early 2008 Trade in [...] (U) Argentine goods exports were up 40% year-on-year in the first four months of 2008, and imports increased by 45%, according to a report released by GoA statistics agency INDEC on May 26. Total exports were USD 21.6 billion, and imports were USD 17.8 billion, leaving a trade surplus of $3.8 [...] | 2008-06-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EPET ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES760 | ARGENTINA: CODEL DODD DISCUSSES REGION WITH [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a lunch with ambassadors and private sector employees in honor of Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Xavier Becerra. The group discussed the region's efforts at integration, pointing to the benefits of closer relations that have developed and the c [...] | 2008-06-03 18:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD SNAR MASS EAID EC |
08BUENOSAIRES776 | GOA PRESIDENT, OTHERS, DEFEND POLICIES RESTRICTING [...] (C) Ambassador and Emboffs raised the points provided in Ref A (Request to End Food Staple Export Restrictions),Ref B (Agricultural Biotechnology as a Tool to Fight Hunger),and Ref C (The President's Global Food Security Initiative and Trade) demarches with the President, Foreign Minister, an [...] | 2008-06-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES782 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 26 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 26 - June 4, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be i [...] | 2008-06-06 15:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES790 | Argentina-China Trade Update: Advantage, China [...] (SBU) After declining rapidly over the last few years, Argentina's bilateral trade surplus with China fell into deficit in early 2008. This is due mainly to increased imports, which have risen more quickly from China than the rest of the world, whereas the increase in exports to China is simil [...] | 2008-06-09 14:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AR CH |
08BUENOSAIRES802 | Argentine Economy Minister to Senator Dodd: The Kirchner [...] (SBU) New Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez highlighted the Argentine economy's strong recovery since 2002 and continuing strength during a May 29 meeting with visiting U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Xavier Becerra. The Minister attributed the fast growth since 2003 to the "K [...] | 2008-06-12 10:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES81 | ARGENTINA-CHINA TRADE UPDATE: IMPORTS NOT CROWDING OUT [...] (SBU) In response to a surge in goods imports from China, the GoA imposed a series of "non-discriminatory" non-tariff trade restrictions implicitly aimed at Chinese goods seen as crowding out domestic production. Argentina's trade surplus with China peaked in 2003 at $1.8 billion, but may have [...] | 2008-01-24 17:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AR CH |
08BUENOSAIRES816 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE 6 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 6 - 13, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2008-06-13 20:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES828 | Argentina: Economic Impact of Farming Crisis [...] (SBU) Argentine consumer confidence has declined markedly due to economic disruptions linked to the 100-day long agricultural sector strike. A just released measure of popular sentiment on the general economic situation, employment, family income and purchasing power was down for the fifth stra [...] | 2008-06-17 21:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD EINV PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES836 | "Argentinization:" Government Promotes Greater Local [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A decade after its great privatization wave, and followed by the 2001/02 economic collapse, Argentina has undergone a paradigm shift, with the Government of Argentina (GOA) promoting a heavy hand in the economy. While this trend has been much in the news over the GOA's price sta [...] | 2008-06-18 19:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL ENRG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES842 | (C) ARGENTINE FARM CRISIS: "100 DAYS OF [...] (C) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner's June 17 decision to send the polemic grain export fee/tax ("retenciones") issue to congress for debate and vote was met here with guarded optimism and a palpable sense of relief. However, her bellicose speech at the June 18 pro-government rally o [...] | 2008-06-20 10:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES848 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS' POLL NUMBERS PLUMMET IN WAKE [...] (SBU) The 100 day farm crisis has had a dramatic and negative effect on President Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) poll numbers, according to results published today by leading polling firm Poliarquia. CFK's positive image sits at 20 percent, a six percentage point drop over the previous month, [...] | 2008-06-20 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR EFIN ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES881 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE 16 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 16 - 20, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inc [...] | 2008-06-25 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES893 | MACRI AND SCIOLI ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN [...] (C) Summary: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and the CDA met with Argentina's two most prominent center-right politicians, Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli and Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri on June 12. Scioli, formally allied with the Kirchner government, appeared haggard and [...] | 2008-06-27 20:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES962 | Doha update -- Argentina will hang tough [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina is not ready to show much flexibility on the WTO texts this week in meetings with Mercosur and at the upcoming July 21-26 Geneva Ministerial, according to Argentina's Foreign Minister and a senior Foreign Ministry trade official. End Summary ------------------------ [...] | 2008-07-14 19:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON MARR PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES976 | Argentina: Economy Minister Fernandez on Economic Impact of [...] (SBU) GoA Economy Minister Fernandez, in a meeting with WHA Assistant Secretary Shannon, Treasury DAS O'Neill, and Ambassador, emphasized the "legitimate right" of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to unilaterally impose variable export tariffs on agricultural commodities, but argued tha [...] | 2008-07-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES984 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT TO TREASURY DAS [...] (C) Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado told Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Brian O'Neill July 11 that he was greatly concerned about the direction of the U.S. and world economies, and the impact on Argentina and Latin America, and called for stronger G-3 statements of [...] | 2008-07-18 14:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES989 | Argentina Shows No Flexibility on Latest Doha NAMA Text [...] (SBU) Public comments by Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, as well as press reports, indicate a growing divide between MERCOSUR members Argentina and Brazil over their respective WTO Doha Development Round (DDR) negotiating positions, despite a July 14 meeting in Rio de Janeiro of MERCOSUR Foreign [...] | 2008-07-18 21:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES991 | GoA Repeals Export Tax Resolution, Ending Farm Crisis [...] (SBU) Late July 18, the GoA repealed the March 11 decree that set off the 129-day battle with the rural sector by imposing sliding scale export taxes on grains and oilseeds exports. This decision, which follows the Argentine Senate's July 17 failure to pass the resolution into law, returns exp [...] | 2008-07-18 22:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV AR |
08BUJUMBURA270 | AGMIN REP WELCOMES GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY [...] (SBU) In a meeting with EconOff May 20, Pegase Banyankiye of the Burundian Ministry of Agriculture's Directorate for Mobilization and Self-Development said that he welcomed the Global Food Security Initiative and agreed with the basic precepts it embodies (reftel). Burundi does not, nor does i [...] | 2008-05-21 10:03:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBI BY |
08BUJUMBURA271 | CIVIL AVIATION DIRECTOR RECEPTIVE TO U.S. VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) In a meeting with EconOff May 20, Ambassador Joseph Bangurambona, Director of Burundi's civil aviation authority, the National Aeronautic Service, expressed his support for key U.S. positions to be raised at the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO's) Nineteenth Aviation Sec [...] | 2008-05-21 10:04:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL PTER BY |
08BUJUMBURA357 | UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (UPU) CONGRESS: MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) In a July 15 meeting with PolOff, the Chief of Cabinet for the Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications, Dieudonne Karasavye confirmed that Minister Philippe Njoni will head the Burundian delegation to to the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in Geneva and stated that he would di [...] | 2008-07-16 15:20:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO BY |
08CAIRO1036 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER YOUSSEF [...] (SBU) Summary: In an upbeat May 15 introductory courtesy call with Finance Minster Youssef Boutros Ghali (YBG),the Ambassador discussed local perceptions of economic reform, Egyptian assistance to Iraq and the Iraq Compact meeting in Stockholm, the Egyptian debt relief proposal, the Minister's [...] | 2008-05-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EPET PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1048 | EGYPTIAN QIZ EXPORTS LEVEL OFF IN FIRST QUARTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Egyptian exports to the United States under the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement leveled off in the first quarter of 2008 to $169 million USD. GOE and Government of Israel trade officials continued to push for QIZ expansion into Upper Egypt at the quarterly QIZ meeting [...] | 2008-05-22 14:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD IS EG |
08CAIRO1088 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ICT MARKET WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: In a May 26 introductory call on Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel, the Ambassador praised the role of the Ministry and of information and communications technology (ICT) market growth in Egypt's economic development, inquired about GOE plans to pro [...] | 2008-05-28 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
08CAIRO1102 | EGYPTIANS OPEN TO BIOTECH, CRITICIZE BIOFUELS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Agriculture officials defended the GOE ban on rice exports, criticized USG support of biofuels, and noted the GOE's recent approval of a genetically modified variety of corn as evidence of Egypt's openness to agricultural biotechnology in respo [...] | 2008-05-29 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EG |
08CAIRO1176 | EGYPT EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION WITH THE UN'S 1267 [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egypt is one of several countries which has submitted names to the U.N. Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 regarding Al Qaida and Taliban associated entities. Egypt has had 13 names pending with the Committee [...] | 2008-06-09 11:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EG ETRD IR PGOV |
08CAIRO1191 | APACHE NOMINEE FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE [...] We would like to nominate Apache Corporation, the largest U.S. investor in Egypt and Egypt's third largest oil and gas producer, for the State Department's Corporate Excellence award. In addition to achieving business excellence, Apache deserves recognition for its girls school program, suppor [...] | 2008-06-10 12:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP AMGT ECON EINV ELAB ETRD SENV EAID KPAO EG |
08CAIRO1201 | DR. BOUTROS-GHALI'S CANDIDACY FOR CHAIRMAN OF IMFC [...] (U) Below are the texts of two letters received June 8, 2008 and June 9, 2008 respectively, regarding Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali's candidacy for Chairman of the International Monetary Finance Committee (IMFC). Post is forwarding hard copies directly to Secretary Paulson via fax. [...] | 2008-06-11 13:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAID EG |
08CAIRO121 | EGYPT: POST SUBMISSION FOR SECTION 1377 TELECOM [...] We provide the below responses from the Government of Egypt to reftel concerns for the Section 1377 Telecom Trade Agreements 2008 Review. Satellite Services ------------------ 2. For all questions on licenses for satellite services, National Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority ( [...] | 2008-01-24 15:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON ETRD USTR EG |
08CAIRO1395 | EGYPT RECEIVES IRISL INFORMATION, COMMITTED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-02 14:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | EWWT ETRD ECON EFIN PARM KNNP EG |
08CAIRO1515 | EGYPT: TRADE MINISTER DISCOURAGES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohammed Rachid told the Ambassador in an introductory call that Egyptian reformers would view a free-trade agreement with the United States as a catalyst for reform, arguing that the 2006 U.S. decision to back away from the launch of free-tra [...] | 2008-07-17 06:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EG |
08CAIRO1526 | DR. BOUTROS-GHALI'S THOUGHTS ON WHAT LAYS AHEAD FOR IMFC [...] (U) Below is the text of a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson received July 13, 2008 regarding Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali thoughts on the International Monetary Finance Committee (IMFC). Post is forwarding hard copies directly to Secretary Paulson via fax. 2. (U) Begin [...] | 2008-07-17 14:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAID EG |
08CAIRO1535 | EGYPT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION [...] (U) We delivered reftel paragraph 12 points to Engineer Alaa Fahmy, Chairman of the Egyptian Postal Authority, on July 9. He had no substantive response on the points on the UPU Massion Statement or Zero Nominal Growth policies. On supporting U.S. candidacy, he asked for names and details on [...] | 2008-07-20 09:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO EG |
08CAIRO1677 | Egypt: Counterfeit Drugs Threaten Public Health, IPR [...] (U) Summary: GOE health and security officials are seeking assistance from US pharmaceutical companies to combat counterfeit drugs, which threaten public health, cost an estimated 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($190 million) a year, and violate the intellectual property rights of the innovative dr [...] | 2008-08-04 12:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR ETRD EG |
08CAIRO168 | EGYPTIANS, GAZANS SEEK ALTERNATIVE TO BORDER CHAOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From business leaders to currency traders to hungry guys with empty gas cans, Egyptian residents of North Sinai and their self-invited guests from Gaza stressed during our visit January 28-30 that economic and humanitarian pressure will continue to cause eruptions across the bo [...] | 2008-01-31 14:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL ETRD PTER KWBG EG |
08CAIRO1813 | EGYPT CLAIMS IPR IMPROVEMENTS DURING USTR VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While maintaining their longstanding resistance to USG requests regarding pharmaceutical test data exclusivity, GOE officials claimed progress in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) during a USTR-led visit July 27-29. Private-sector representatives agreed that IPR pro [...] | 2008-08-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
08CAIRO201 | EGYPT MAKES INCREMENTAL PROGRESS ON IPR PROTECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Egypt continues to make progress on the concerns identified in the Special 301 action plan for Egypt (ref A); more remains to be done. This message responds to request in ref B to update the status of specific concerns, keyed to each item in the action plan. EN [...] | 2008-02-05 14:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD EG |
08CAIRO2097 | EGYPT REVIEWS TEXTILE LABEL REQUIREMENT [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Walid el-Nozahy, head of the WTO unit at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, on September 25 to raise the concerns of Nike and other U.S. garment exporters regarding GOE decrees 515 of 2003 and 770 of 2005 (ref e-mail). Econoff noted that U.S. exporters believe that the [...] | 2008-09-25 10:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO EG |
08CAIRO2402 | NO EVIDENCE OF UP-FRONT RESIGNATIONS IN EGYPT'S [...] (C) Summary: Despite concerns expressed by international workers' rights organizations that factories in Egypt's Special Export Zones (SEZ) require workers to submit undated resignations as a pre-condition of employment, NGOs report that this practice is not prevalent in Egypt's Qualifying [...] | 2008-11-24 12:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM ETRD EG IS |
08CAIRO2404 | NEA/ELA DIRECTOR DISCUSSES QIZ EXPANSION WITH [...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with NEA/ELA Director Nicole Shampaine, officials from the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry expressed their frustration with what they felt was excessive delay in United States Trade Representative's (USTR's) consideration and approval of a 2007 request to expa [...] | 2008-11-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO2406 | AMBASSADOR RAISES COKE, NIKE COMPLAINTS WITH TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met November 23 with Minister of Trade Rachid Rachid to discuss two ongoing complaints by US firms, Coca Cola and Nike. In Coke case, which Rachid described as a commercial dispute rather than a trade mark issue, he gave his assurances that his ministry would not i [...] | 2008-11-24 13:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EG |
08CAIRO2409 | TRADE OFFICIAL ON GOE ECONONIC REFORM, TRADE STRATEGY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 13 meeting with Commerce DAS for Services Mark Brady, Ministry of Trade and Investment First Advisor Samiha Fawzy said that Egyptian was not interested in a new bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with the U.S., and that Egypt must "maintain the FTA as an overall ob [...] | 2008-11-24 14:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EAGR PREL EG |
08CAIRO2410 | READOUT FROM THE 15TH QIZ JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) Joint Committee held its quarterly meeting in Cairo on November 24. The Egyptians requested a reduction in Israeli inputs, citing insufficient supply, and the Israelis agreed to work with companies in both sides to help them meet the existing [...] | 2008-11-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO2419 | HEALTH MINISTER READIES NEW DRUG REGISTRATION RULES, PLANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On November 23, newly appointed Ministry of Health Assistant Minister for Pharmaceutical Affairs Kamal Sabra told FCS and Econ counselor that the MOH would soon put drug registration on-line and that the new drug registration rules are almost finished. The department's new faci [...] | 2008-11-25 13:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV PREL KIPR EG |
08CAIRO2507 | MOVING FORWARD ON QIZ EXPANSION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph six. 2. (SBU) On December 14, econcouns met with Ali Awni, chief of the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) Unit of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). Awni stated that he hoped further consideration of the proposed QIZ expansion to Up [...] | 2008-12-16 07:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO2508 | GOE LOOKS AT RETAIL AND DISTRIBUTION SECTOR [...] (SBU) FCS and Econ counselors met recently with the Minister of Trade and Industry's newly hired advisor for internal markets, Sahar El Salab. El Salab was until recently a vice president of CIB, Egypt's largest private bank. In her new role, she is charged with reforming Egypt's internal ma [...] | 2008-12-16 09:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO2528 | NO EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE USE OR ABUSE OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) In recent visits to Egyptian factories participating in the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) program, we saw no evidence of the extensive or abusive use of foreign workers. On November 19, we visited two large QIZ factories located in the Tenth of Ramadan Special Economic Zone (SEZ); t [...] | 2008-12-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL PGOV EG IS JO |
08CAIRO2589 | Four Egyptian Companies suspended for Violating QIZ [...] Four Egyptian companies were suspended earlier this month by the Joint Egyptian Q Israeli committee for a period of thee months for violating Qualifying Industrial Zones regulations. Ali Awni, QIZ unit chief, stated that three companies, Misr Company for Industrial and Textile Investments, I [...] | 2008-12-31 10:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON IS EG |
08CAIRO268 | WTO DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON ENVIRONMENTAL, TAFT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Econ Counselor and econoff delivered demarches on the US/EC proposals on labeling for textile, apparel, footware, and travel (TAFT) goods (ref A) and environmental goods and services (ref B) to Walid el-Nozahay, head of the WTO department at the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and I [...] | 2008-02-12 13:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO SENV EG |
08CAIRO330 | Subsidy bill squeezes national budget [...] On January 31 Egypt's People's Assembly (PA) approved a bill adding LE 4.7 billion ($840 million) to the FY 2007/2008 budget to cover the rising cost of subsidies on imported food commodities. High international prices are driving Egypt's 10% inflation rate, and high wheat prices in particular [...] | 2008-02-21 10:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD EG |
08CAIRO348 | 2008 Special 301 Review: Egypt [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Egypt has made incremental progress in the protection of Intellectual Property Rights during the last three years. The GOE has worked with the private sector and USG to improve its system for granting pharmaceutical patents and increase enforcement against copyright pirates, w [...] | 2008-02-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
08CAIRO361 | QIZ EXPORT DROP REINFORCES EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 11:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KTEX IS EG |
08CAIRO364 | QIZ EXPORT DROP REINFORCES EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI EXPANSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As we prepare for high-level visits to the region surrounding the 60th anniversary of Israel and the World Economic Forum in Egypt, Post recommends strong consideration of a joint Egyptian-Israeli request to expand the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) into Upper Egypt. Expand [...] | 2008-02-25 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KTEX IS EG |
08CAIRO373 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 09:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EG |
08CAIRO721 | MUBARAK'S NUCLEAR PROTOCOL WITH RUSSIA: [...] (C) Summary: Contacts in the GOE and Egyptian academia have described President Mubarak's late March visit to Russia as "routine," including the Egyptian-Russian nuclear energy protocol signed during the visit. While the nuclear energy protocol and other agreements for Egyptian-Russian cooper [...] | 2008-04-09 11:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ETRD KNNP EG RU |
08CAIRO87 | EGYPT: PARLIAMENT APPROVES HARMONIZATION OF [...] Egypt's upper parliamentary chamber, the Shura Council, has ratified the government's decision to join the "International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures" (Kyoto Convention) to reduce barriers to Egypt's international trade. Under the convention, Egyp [...] | 2008-01-21 09:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EG |
08CAIRO920 | NAZIF DISCUSSES D&G FUNDING, REFORM IN EGYPT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador made an introductor call on Prime Minister Nazif on April 29, accompanied by econ counselor (notetaker). The two discussed the need to continue an economic dialogue, as well as continued US support for democracy in Egypt, Egyptian political reform, US funding for ci [...] | 2008-05-05 09:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD KIPR KDEM EG |
08CAIRO996 | CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT WARNS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS [...] (C) Per reftel, Post delivered non-paper to relevant Egyptian authorities regarding UN Security Council Resolution 1803 regarding Iran, the FATF advisory on Iran, and we urged Egyptian authorities to warn their financial institutions to step up vigilance on all activities with any bank domicile [...] | 2008-05-15 12:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EG ETRD IR PGOV EINV |
08CANBERRA1003 | WESTERN AUSTRALIA ECONOMY - MORE THAN ROCKS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Canberra-based econoff visited Perth, Western Australia (WA) September 18-19 for meetings with local government and business figures. On this trip, econoff hoped to meet with people to discuss topics OTHER than Western Australia's booming resources sector, which includes nicke [...] | 2008-10-01 07:12:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG AS |
08CANBERRA1004 | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR COMMENTS ON WHALING, CHINA AND [...] (C/NF) Summary: Japanese Ambassador Takaaki Kojima told Ambassador McCallum that Japan was not going to reduce or cancel the upcoming whaling season, as Australia hoped (ref B),because it had already made a concession last year to drop the planned killing of 50 humpback whales in an effort [...] | 2008-10-01 07:49:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ASJA PREL |
08CANBERRA102 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM - [...] (U) Australia's plan to participate in the March GI Model Guidelines Document Workshop in Washington was confirmed to Poloffs by Mohan Mathews, Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Section, International Security Division, DFAT, during a Februar [...] | 2008-02-07 01:55:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP PTER EAIR ETRD EWWT PREL AS |
08CANBERRA1079 | AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR TAKES A DIVE [...] (SBU) Buffeted by falling commodity prices, fear of global economic recession, and dropping domestic interest rates, the Australian dollar has lost 37% of its value against the U.S. dollar, falling faster since July than even the Icelandic krona. The Aussie dollar has lost 27% of its trade-wei [...] | 2008-10-27 06:04:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1111 | DAUSTR BELL'S AUSTRALIA MEETINGS: TPP, WTO, AND [...] (C) Summary. DAUSTR Doug Bell visited Canberra October 19-21 for meetings with Australian trade officials and to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Australia has begun its internal processes to gain formal approval for joining the TPP, which should be concluded by the end of the ye [...] | 2008-11-03 03:50:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ASEAN AS |
08CANBERRA1134 | NEW AUSTRALIAN CAR PLAN ANNOUNCED [...] (U) Summary. On November 10, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Industry Minister Kim Carr released the GOA's response to the Bracks Review of the car industry. The 'New Car Plan for a Greener Future' aims to make the car industry more responsive to changing consumer demand, environmental policy an [...] | 2008-11-12 04:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1166 | AUSTRALIA APPROVES TPP PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 22:58:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1192 | AN OPENING ON AUSSIE QUARANTINE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Australian quarantine regulator has ruled that Philippine bananas can be imported into Australia. The Deputy Prime Minister publicly asserted the agency's independence and implicitly defended the decision. This could be an indication of a changing direction in Australian [...] | 2008-11-26 05:19:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1194 | AUSTRALIA RESPONSE ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post Economic and Agriculture officers met with officials from Australian Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF),Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),and AusAID to discuss the Global Partnership on Agriculture and Food (GPAF). The GOA expressed s [...] | 2008-11-26 06:15:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1197 | FILM/TV INDUSTRY FILES COPYRIGHT CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: On November 20 several media companies filed legal action against Australia's #3 internet service provider (ISP) iiNet, seeking a ruling that iiNet has infringed copyright by not taking reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized use of films and TV programs by its customers. This i [...] | 2008-11-30 23:13:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ECPS ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1199 | AUSTRALIA RESPONSE ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) The following is the written response to ref A demarche on behalf of the GOA, provided to Embassy by AusAID following our November 26 meeting (ref B). Begin text of GOA response: "1. The Australian Government is generally supportive of improved coordination and increased transparenc [...] | 2008-12-01 04:30:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1207 | AUSTRALIA SHARES CONCERNS ON PROTECTIONISM [...] (C) GOA shares US concerns about protectionism in some G20 members. Australia has already made approaches in several G20 capitals, and is ready to cooperate closely with US. DFAT said the UK should be added to the list of countries taking protectionist steps because of how it has raised i [...] | 2008-12-02 07:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PREL ECON WTRO AS |
08CANBERRA1250 | AUSTRALIAN MINISTERS MAKE QUICK TRIP TO BEIJING TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: Treasurer Swan and Trade Minister Crean made a weekend visit to China to push on bilateral FTA talks and on Doha, at PM Rudd's instruction. GOA trade officials hope that China's interest in easier terms for its state owned enterprises to invest in Australia will give some leve [...] | 2008-12-10 05:32:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD EINV PREL AS CH |
08CANBERRA1252 | Pressure on Australia's Current Account Deficit? [...] (SBU) Summary. Australia's current account deficit (CAD) fell sharply to its lowest level in six years from almost A$20 billion in the March quarter (7 per cent of GDP) to A$9.8 billion in the June quarter (3.2 per cent of GDP) due to a boost to export prices (especially coal and iron ore) and [...] | 2008-12-10 06:02:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1285 | AUSTRALIA EXTENDS SANCTIONS TO ADDITIONAL MUGABE [...] (SBU) Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed to Embassy December 17 that the GOA has announced it will extend sanctions against 75 more supporters of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, and against four extra companies. DFAT Director for Sanctions and Transnational Crimes Peter [...] | 2008-12-17 06:35:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD AS ZI |
08CANBERRA1326 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO BURMESE AND DONOR CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 06:26:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS |
08CANBERRA301 | AUSTRALIA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF FINANCIAL PROVISIONS [...] (C) Australia recently completed updating laws and regulations designed to facilitate its implementation of financial and other provisions of Iran-related Security Council resolutions, including UNSCR 1803. Australian banks are fully compliant with the measures, which entered into force on M [...] | 2008-03-27 05:54:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN ETTC PARM KNNP MNUC AS |
08CANBERRA303 | ADVANCING AUSTRALIA'S GLOBAL INTERESTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In his first foreign policy address as Prime Minister, and before leaving for the United States, Europe and China on March 27, Kevin Rudd said that the challenges Australia faces in areas like climate change, terrorism and the development of the Pacific Islands will require it to b [...] | 2008-03-27 06:53:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD SENV AS |
08CANBERRA392 | AUSTRALIA WANTS MORE INFO ON U.S. WTO REMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia is not at the moment in a position to agree to cosponsor the US WTO remanufacturing initiative text, but does not rule it out. The Australians suggest a dialogue on this issue, preferably in Geneva. End summary. 2. (SBU) Deputy Econcouns met with Department of Fo [...] | 2008-04-16 06:59:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON AS |
08CANBERRA469 | AUSTRALIA ON WIPO D-G ELECTION [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Nicholas Rodgers, Director for International Intellectual Property at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade May 9. IP Australia, preparing for the long trip to Geneva, was unable to attend, but DFAT has been in close consultation with them and bot [...] | 2008-05-09 05:31:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC WIPO KIPR ETRD PREL AS |
08CANBERRA531 | FOOD EXPORT RESTRICTIONS [...] (U) The GOA has taken no steps to restrict agricultural exports from Australia, nor does post expect any such moves in Australia, which exports on average two-thirds of its agricultural production. 2. (SBU) Bruce Bowan, Acting Director for International Affairs at the Department of Agricul [...] | 2008-05-22 06:48:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON TBIO AS |
08CANBERRA532 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] Summary: The rise of food and agricultural commodity prices has had very limited impact in Australia. A major agricultural exporter, Australia even stands to benefit. Rising food prices have caused no significant economic, political, or environmental problems in Australia. Post has no reco [...] | 2008-05-22 07:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AS |
08CANBERRA538 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE ON GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY AND [...] (U) Post shared reftel demarche with Paul Morris, Executive Manager, Technical Market Access at Australia's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. In response, Morris provided the following paper laying out the GOA,s views. 2. (SBU) DAFF Comments on US Food Cable The Austra [...] | 2008-05-23 04:59:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO AS |
08CANBERRA544 | AUSTRALIA CRITICAL OF US FARM BILL [...] Summary: (U) The Australian Government has been openly critical of the just-passed US Farm Bill. Following the final passage of the Farm Bill, Trade Minister Simon Crean and Agriculture Minister Tony Burke issued a joint press statement on May 23 which criticized the action by Congress for c [...] | 2008-05-27 07:22:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA545 | 2008 AUTOMATED MUTUAL-ASSISTANCE VESSEL RESCUE [...] Mission Australia would be pleased to present AMVER awards on behalf of the US Coast Guard to Australian recipients. We will decide on the best arrangements for presenting the award(s) based on where the recipient is located - likely through one of our Consulates-General in Melbourne, Perth, [...] | 2008-05-28 03:40:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT ECON ETRD ELTN ATRN PREL AS |
08CANBERRA554 | AUSTRALIA AND CHILE CONCLUDE FTA [...] (U) Summary: Australia and Chile have concluded negotiations for an FTA. It is expected to be signed in July. This is the first FTA to be concluded by the Rudd Government; negotiations began under the previous Howard government. End summary. 2. (U) On May 27 Trade Minister Simon Crean [...] | 2008-05-29 07:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON AS CI |
08CANBERRA620 | CLIMATE CHANGE: AUSTRALIA EMBRACING CLIMATE [...] (C/NF) Summary. At a recent "Chatham House Rules" seminar for Australian government and academic thinkers on emissions trading, Ross Garnaut, the Australian National University Professor who is heading the climate change review commissioned by the Federal and the State and Territory Governmen [...] | 2008-06-17 07:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SENV ETRD PREL AS |
08CANBERRA684 | DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1803 IRISL CARGO INSPECTION [...] (C) During Acting Assistant Secretary's June 30 nonproliferation consultations in Canberra (ref B),she raised the importance of robust implementation of the inspection provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1803 (ref A),including cargos of aircraft and vessels of Iran Air Cargo and Isl [...] | 2008-07-07 07:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA687 | UPU CONGRESS DEMARCHE: AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff and Econ intern met with Richard Desmond, acting Assistant Secretary for Consumer Protection and Australia Post for the Department of Broadband, Communication, and Digital Economy (DBCDE) to review U.S. concerns for the UPU (Universal Postal Union) Congress in Geneva, S [...] | 2008-07-07 23:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO AS |
08CANBERRA71 | AUSTRALIA: DEMARCHE ON ENERGY INVESTMENTS IN BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 07:00:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA792 | EXPERTS DISCUSS AUSTRALIA-CHINA ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The consensus among several of the leading Australian economic thinkers in Canberra is that the commodities boom will begin to cool off, but that Chinese and other developing market economic growth will continue to prop up Australian export strength over the long run. Australi [...] | 2008-08-08 01:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL AS |
08CANBERRA819 | LNG INDUSTRY REACTION TO GREEN PAPER ON EMISSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia's extensive and growing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry is up in arms about the Government's plan to create an emissions trading scheme (ETS) because the Government's discussion paper (aka green paper) on emissions trading (reftel A) failed to indicate whether LNG [...] | 2008-08-17 22:18:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETRD SENV AS |
08CANBERRA886 | AMBASSADOR MCCALLUM CALL ON INDUSTRY MINISTER CARR [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Kim Carr wants the Rudd government to set up a 10-year plan to address key innovation needs, which would include funding of A$1.5 billion per year to improve research training and infrastructure and changes to the tax treat [...] | 2008-09-08 07:49:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ESTH EIND AS |
08CANBERRA903 | AUSTRALIA-NZ-ASEAN FTA: ANNOUNCED, BUT AUTOS STILL [...] (C) Summary: Ministers announced the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement on August 28, slated to be signed in December. However, Australia is still negotiating on autos and auto parts with Malaysia and Indonesia. The Australians see this as a quality FTA, with each country com [...] | 2008-09-12 06:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ASEAN AS |
08CANBERRA926 | AUSTRALIA:INTERIM REPLY ON ENGAGING CHINA RE [...] (S) In accepting Ref A demarche points on September 17, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation John Sullivan told us that Australia took very seriously the issue of Chinese proliferation trade with Iran, particularly if military or dual-use items were transferred for us [...] | 2008-09-17 06:19:00 | Embassy Canberra | SECRET | PARM KNNP PTER PINR ETRD MOPS MCAP CH IR AS |
08CAPETOWN36 | SOUTH AFRICA'S 2008 BUDGET [...] (U) Summary. South Africa Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel delivered his annual Budget Speech before Parliament on February 20, 2008. According to Manuel, South Africa continues to have a positive fiscal outlook despite global economic turmoil. GDP growth was projected at 4 percent with [...] | 2008-02-21 14:27:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN ENRG BEXP KTDB SF |
08CAPETOWN52 | TRANSNET RESTRUCTURING AND CAPE TOWN PORT EXPANSION PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary. Transport Officer and Special Agent for Department of Defense Force Protection met with Transnet and maritime industry officials in Cape Town to discuss Transnet restructuring, port expansion projects, and investments to increase port security. The National Port Authority (NPA) [...] | 2008-03-14 11:38:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EWWT ELTN EIND EINV SF |
08CARACAS1081 | VENEZUELAN MARKET INTERFERENCE LEADS TO BOTH FOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although local headlines on July 31 reporting 60 tons of rotten chicken in a city dump proved to be exaggerated, the incident drew attention to continuing distortions in the Venezuelan food supply. While the dairy and poultry industries have successfully lobbied for a temporary [...] | 2008-08-01 21:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PGOV VE ECON ETRD |
08CARACAS1152 | VENEZUELA INCREASES REGULATED FOOD PRICES TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 11, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) freed prices for a number of price-controlled food products and raised maximum prices for several others. Press reports indicate the BRV has increased regulated food prices over thirty times since October 2007. Although t [...] | 2008-08-15 20:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PGOV VE ECON ETRD |
08CARACAS1170 | VENEZUELA OFFERED CEMEX A LOWER PRICE THAN ITS [...] (C) On August 19 Venezuelan Vice President Carrizalez announced that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) had successfully negotiated the purchase of cement companies Lafarge and Holcim but had failed to reach an agreement with Mexico's Cemex. National Guard troops took possession of Ce [...] | 2008-08-19 22:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CARACAS118 | NOT MUCH SUBSTANCE AT THE VI ALBA SUMMIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Venezuela hosted the VI Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our Americas (ALBA) summit January 24-26, 2008 in Caracas. While little substantive occurred at the summit, it provided Hugo Chavez a platform to rail against capitalism and the United States. Three of the four [...] | 2008-01-30 18:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EINV VE |
08CARACAS1200 | VENEZUELAN CEMENT NATIONALIZATIONS DESIGNED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior executive from the Swiss cement company Holcim, nationalized by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) as of August 18, suggested that the BRV had rushed to nationalize the cement sector after months of relative inactivity out of a desire to claim ownership of a key [...] | 2008-08-26 16:33:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1209 | VENEZUELA'S HOUSING CRISIS - SOCIALISM THE ANSWER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An estimated 2 million unit housing shortage is complicating Chavez' chances for success in the November state and local elections. In an effort to improve one of the worst housing construction records of any recent administration, Chavez has nationalized companies providing c [...] | 2008-08-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE SOCI |
08CARACAS1228 | VENEZUELAN ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN CRISIS AFTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A power blackout that affected half of the country on September 1 illustrates the fragility of Venezuela's electrical power sector. The consequences of the government's failure to invest in the sector are now clear from insufficient generation to dilapidated distributions infr [...] | 2008-09-02 22:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1393 | VENEZUELAN CEMENT PRODUCTION DROPPING FOLLOWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mexican Ambassador to Venezuela Mario Chacon informed Econoffs that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has not budged from its initial, USD 500 million offer for Mexico's Cemex that, in effect, represents an expropriation of Cemex assets in Venezuela. Chacon believes the [...] | 2008-10-01 20:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1406 | WARNING: VENEZUELA'S NEW LABELING LAW HAZARDOUS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuela's new food labeling law requires that original food product packaging be printed in Spanish, and prohibits the use of add-on Spanish-language stickers for imported goods. This requirement is contained in the set of 26 new decrees issued at the end of July, and came as [...] | 2008-10-03 13:02:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1427 | IPR CHANGES FOR PHARMACEUTICALS [...] (C) Summary. On September 12, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) agency responsible for intellectual property protection issued a press release resurrecting the Industrial Property Law of 1955, which expressly prohibits intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals and other produc [...] | 2008-10-08 20:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN PREL PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1546 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT IGNORES USG WARNING ON PORT [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has not responded to two diplomatic notes and multiple Embassy requests for a meeting to discuss U.S. Coast Guard efforts dating back to 2006 to arrange port visits. Embassy maritime contacts believe that Venezuelan ports would not pas [...] | 2008-11-07 12:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | VE ASEC MARR PGOV ECON EAIR EWWT ETRD KHLS |
08CARACAS1580 | VENEZUELA RESPONDS TO USG REQUEST FOR PORT VISITS [...] (SBU) Post has received a Diplomatic Note dated November 13 responding to the Embassy's October 6 Diplomatic Note, which stated that the GBRV must set a port visit date within 30 days of the Diplomatic Note's receipt, or the Coast Guard would impose "conditions of entry". An unofficial transl [...] | 2008-11-14 18:55:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ASEC MARR PGOV EAIR PREL ETRD KHLS PTER |
08CARACAS1607 | VENEZUELAN PORTS IN CHAOS, DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN [...] (C) Summary: Industry sources report that Venezuelan ports are in a "state of chaos" with long lines of ships waiting to dock, and numerous instances of ships diverted to other countries to unload cargo after failing to dock in Venezuela. Port authorities have reportedly advised shipping compa [...] | 2008-11-19 20:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ASEC MARR PGOV EAIR PREL ETRD KHLS PTER |
08CARACAS1620 | LEADING VENEZUELAN FOOD PROCESSING COMPANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A well-placed source within Alfonso Rivas and Co., Venezuela's second leading food processing company, has informed AgAttache that official government stores will not purchase food products from this firm. According to their Government Relations officer, the reason is that a le [...] | 2008-11-24 12:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR PGOV ETRD VE |
08CARACAS1628 | VENEZUELA: POINTS DELIVERED ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) Post delivered reftel points on the proposed Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food to the Ministries of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Food, Agriculture, and Light Industry and Commerce. Post will report a response if received, however, based on past experience, no reply is anti [...] | 2008-11-26 19:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV EAGR PREL ETRD VE |
08CARACAS1637 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT PROPOSES FEBRUARY 2009 COAST [...] (C) On December 1 Emboffs met with the President of the Institute of Aquatic Spaces (INEA) and representatives of the Ministries of Infrastructure and Foreign Affairs (MRE) to discuss the US Coast Guard's repeated requests for port inspections (ref A). The head of INEA Port Security, Nelson D [...] | 2008-12-02 18:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAIR PREL ETRD EWWT VE |
08CARACAS1638 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT VERSUS THE COMBO MEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan consumer protection law, passed July 2008, requires the government to approve all sales promotions with an eye to curtailing "excessive consumption" and punishing "capitalist impresarios" while also seeking to eliminate hoarding and speculation, particularly with fo [...] | 2008-12-02 20:16:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EAGR VE |
08CARACAS1696 | VENEZUELA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) Post's response to Reftel A questions follow. 2. (C) Has the host country, in post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Post sees no evidence that the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has undertaken policies or [...] | 2008-12-10 15:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL VE |
08CARACAS1702 | VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT TO ASSUME PERMANENT CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Aeropostal president Dr. Mustafa Flores reports he expects the government to take permanent control of the airline by December 12 and will then bankrupt it. He, along with all but two of the Aeropostal board of directors, plan to resign as they fear they will ultimately be blamed. [...] | 2008-12-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON CASC CVIS ASEC MARR PGOV EAIR PREL ETRD |
08CARACAS1725 | CHAVEZ WARMLY WELCOMES RAUL CASTRO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cuban president Raul Castro and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez signed or renewed in Caracas a myriad of bilateral agreements valued at USD 2.1 billion on December 13, during Castro's first post-succession trip abroad. Under tight security, Castro laid a wreath at the tomb of Simon [...] | 2008-12-16 21:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL CU VE |
08CARACAS1747 | VENEZUELAN CEMENT INDUSTRY HEADED TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cement companies Holcim and Lafarge are expected to soon join Cemex at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) after giving up hope of compensation for their nationalized operations in Venezuela. According to a Holcim executive, the company was rel [...] | 2008-12-19 16:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD KHLS PTER VE |
08CARACAS1754 | VENEZUELAN CABINET RESHUFFLE MAY AFFECT PORTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chavez appointed Diosdado Cabello Rondon, the person most frequently mentioned as a possible successor, as the new Minister of Infrastructure (Minfra) on December 6. Cabello lost his re-election bid for the governorship of Miranda State in the November 23 election. We have already [...] | 2008-12-19 22:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON CASC CVIS ASEC MARR PGOV EAIR PREL ETRD |
08CARACAS457 | PARAGUAY SUPPORTS VENEZUELA'S ENTRY INTO MERCOSUR [...] On April 2, local media reported that Paraguayan Foreign Minister Ruben Ramirez expressed Paraguay's support for Venezuela's full membership into the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR),during his recent trip to Caracas. According to ABN, the official BRV news agency, during the signing of [...] | 2008-04-03 13:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EINV PA VE |
08CARACAS525 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE [...] (C) Acting EconCouns and Econoff delivered ref A demarche and associated non-paper to Francisco Canela, head of the Financial Intellegence Unit (UNIF) of the Superintendency of Banks (SUDEBAN),on April 11. Canela repeated past assurances (ref B) that all banks operating in Venezuela were su [...] | 2008-04-15 12:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PARM PREL KNNP MNUC IR VE |
08CARACAS683 | VENEZUELA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) In response to Reftel A, Post sees no evidence that the BRV has undertaken policies or actions to advance democracy, human rights, or fundamental freedoms in Cuba over the past year. On the contrary, President Hugo Chavez is Fidel Castro's closest ally, provides substantial resources to [...] | 2008-05-19 21:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU VE |
08CARACAS69 | BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] Per request in reftel, this cable transmits the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Begin text ------------------------------ Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Given economic and political uncertainties, a recent history o [...] | 2008-01-17 20:38:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC VE |
08CARACAS769 | VENEZUELA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOWS IN FIRST QUARTER [...] (C) Summary: Central Bank figures for the first quarter of 2008 show that Venezuela's economy is continuing to grow, but at a slower rate. First quarter growth was 4.8 percent in 2008, a marked decrease from the 8.8 percent registered in the first quarter of 2007. While the Central Bank lau [...] | 2008-06-04 13:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD VE |
08CARACAS865 | VENEZUELA: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD [...] SUMMARY. This cable responds to reftel request for information on forced labor and child labor in the production of goods in Venezuela. Venezuela, a high volume, oil producing nation, is largely dependent on imports, and as a result does not have a tradition of child labor in the production [...] | 2008-06-18 18:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI VE |
08CARACAS942 | VENEZUELA'S CODEX COMMITTEE ATTEMPTS A COMEBACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) may attempt to revive its currently moribund interministerial Codex committee, and recall its former director. Reviving Venezuela's Codex committee will not be easy, because of the very problems that led to its demise a few years ago. [...] | 2008-07-07 20:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV VE |
08CARACAS968 | VENEZUELA'S CODEX COMMITTEE ATTEMPTS A COMEBACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) may attempt to revive its currently moribund interministerial Codex committee, and recall its former director. Reviving Venezuela's Codex committee will not be easy, because of the very problems that led to its demise a few years ago. [...] | 2008-07-14 11:57:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV VE |
08CARACAS991 | GENERAL MOTORS HALTING PRODUCTION IN VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 15:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EIND PGOV VE |
08CASABLANCA107 | CHINA'S GROWING ECONOMIC INFLUENCE IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary: Strong bilateral ties between China and Morocco have been bolstered in recent years by state and official visits. Commercial exchanges between the two countries have increased, and Chinese traders have begun to set up shop in Casablanca's largest commercial district. Although b [...] | 2008-05-29 16:28:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV XA CH MO |
08CASABLANCA115 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND [...] This cable responds to a request for information on the use of forced labor and exploitative child labor in the production of goods in Morocco. While Morocco does not have a record of forced child labor, child labor does exist and is used in the production of some goods, mainly in the handicr [...] | 2008-06-03 18:04:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM ECON SOCI MO |
08CASABLANCA272 | U.S. COMMERCIAL SERVICE DIRECTOR GENERAL ISRAEL HERNANDEZ [...] (U) Summary: Director General and Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion Israel Hernandez visited Morocco December 5-7 to reinforce the important friendship and bilateral trade relationship between the U.S. and Morocco. He met separately with Minister of Industry, Commerce and New Technologi [...] | 2008-01-16 12:02:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON ETRD BMGT PREL MO |
08CASABLANCA35 | MOROCCANS STRIKE OVER RISING FOOD COSTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent weeks, Morocco has been hit by a number of national strikes protesting rising costs and other issues and it appears there may be more strikes on the horizon. The GOM, in an early attempt to preempt a national general strike, commenced talks with trade union represen [...] | 2008-02-21 14:21:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON ETRD MO |
08CASABLANCA50 | MOROCCAN APPAREL EXPERTS SPIN YARNS ABOUT TRADE WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Experts in the Moroccan apparel sector say they have limited contact with U.S. clients as a result of stiff competition from Asian markets, American retailers' quest for higher profit margins, and the weak dollar. They question the benefits the FTA offers, but believe that maki [...] | 2008-03-11 14:51:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX MO |
08CASABLANCA93 | STRIKES ON THE HORIZON DESPITE GOM OFFER [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a surprisingly weak turnout on what many though would be well attended May Day celebrations, Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi announced that he would implement his offer to increase monthly minimum wage, lower some income taxes and increase other social benefits. In resp [...] | 2008-05-07 12:54:00 | Consulate Casablanca | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON ETRD MO |
08CHENNAI100 | NEW HYDERABAD AIRPORT STILL IN HOLDING PATTERN [...] (U) Sonia Gandhi, chair of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA),formally inaugurated the new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGI) in Hyderabad on March 14, 2008, with much fanfare. The inauguration heralded the planned opening of the facility on March 16 (ref B). Almost immediately afte [...] | 2008-03-17 10:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
08CHENNAI22 | SOUTH INDIA PREPARES TO DEFEND AGAINST AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Summary: The preparedness of India's southern states to manage a potential outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) in the region is mixed. Tamil Nadu appears better prepared than the other southern states, but a severe outbreak is likely to stretch both the state and national governments' abil [...] | 2008-01-23 11:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV ECON ETRD AMED IN |
08CHENNAI359 | FALLOUT FROM GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS HITTING SOUTH INDIA, [...] (SBU) Summary: Our contacts in South India remain largely optimistic about the longer-term trajectory of the region's economy, but they are bracing for a rough ride in the short-term. Banks are tightening credit, importers are facing rising costs as the rupee drops, and exporters are not benef [...] | 2008-10-24 00:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IN |
08CHENNAI378 | INVESTMENT IN SOUTH INDIA CONTINUES, AS DO JITTERS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Assistant US Trade Representative Michael Delaney met on November 10 with business leaders from key sectors of South India's economy, urging progress on the WTO Doha Round and assessing how the region's business are weathering the current economic slowdown. While all of Delaney's interloc [...] | 2008-11-14 07:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV IN RU |
08CHENNAI99 | NEW AIRPORTS IN HYDERABAD AND BANGALORE WILL BRING [...] (SBU) Summary: The new airports slated to open in the next several weeks in both Hyderabad and Bangalore promise to bring world-class modernity and comfort to air travelers in South India. The opening of the new airports will also close the cities' current airports for commercial aviation, one [...] | 2008-03-14 10:46:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
08CHIANGMAI114 | THAI MARKET TURNS TO AFRICAN RUBIES AS SMUGGLING OF BURMESE [...] (SBU) The long and porous border of the Mae Sot area with Burma, and proximity to the Burmese gem mines, have made this region historically a center for the smuggling of Burmese gems. However, imported African rubies now dominate local markets in Mae Sot. Retailers say Burmese rubies are too e [...] | 2008-07-22 09:50:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON ETRD PGOV EINV TH BM CH |
08CHIANGMAI149 | CONSULATE PROMOTES ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NORTHERN THAILAND [...] Post promoted entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise (SME) development in northern Thailand through a one-day seminar entitled "Encourage Entrepreneurship: Promoting SMEs in Northern Thailand." Business leaders, CG, and econoff addressed an audience of 80 students and faculty and 30 [...] | 2008-10-08 03:57:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD TH |
08CHIANGMAI150 | CONSULATE PROMOTES ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NORTHERN THAILAND [...] Post promoted entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise (SME) development in northern Thailand through a one-day seminar entitled "Encourage Entrepreneurship: Promoting SMEs in Northern Thailand." Business leaders, CG, and econoff addressed an audience of 80 students and faculty and 30 [...] | 2008-10-08 03:58:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD TH |
08CHIANGMAI151 | CONSULATE PROMOTES ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NORTHERN THAILAND [...] Post promoted entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise (SME) development in northern Thailand through a one-day seminar entitled "Encourage Entrepreneurship: Promoting SMEs in Northern Thailand." Business leaders, CG, and econoff addressed an audience of 80 students and faculty and 30 [...] | 2008-10-08 03:58:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD TH |
08CHIANGMAI160 | HIGH-TECH LAMPHUN SHOWS COMPETITIVE POTENTIAL AND INVESTMENT [...] As host to many foreign high-tech manufacturing firms, the Northern Regional Industrial Estate (NRIE) of Lamphun province is both a model for the potential of northern Thailand as a producer of sophisticated electronics products as well as a reality check of the challenges foreign investors fac [...] | 2008-10-17 06:53:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EIND CH TH |
08CHIANGMAI163 | TOURISM SECTOR TRIES TO WEATHER POLITICAL STORM AT HOME, [...] The Chiang Mai tourism sector, thought of as one of the cornerstones of the local economy, is preparing to struggle through the upcoming tourist season expected to be affected by both the on-going political instability in Bangkok and the financial troubles abroad. Local hotels and tour compani [...] | 2008-10-24 14:01:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TH |
08CHIANGMAI169 | CROSS-BORDER MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE EXPANDS WITH GREATER MEKONG [...] (U) With the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) highway infrastructure project nearing completion, movement of persons and trade in services - not only trade in goods - across the northern Thai border is increasing. While the number of persons entering Thailand at Chiang Khong, the border point fo [...] | 2008-11-07 07:51:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EINV ELAB ELTN ETRD PREL EWWT BM CH |
08CHIANGMAI174 | WITHOUT BURMA, EAST-WEST CORRIDOR IS UNDERUSED AND [...] (SBU) Stretching 1,056 miles from Rangoon, Burma to Da Nang, Vietnam, the R2 highway remains incomplete, underused, and with little economic value to date. Though the Asian Development Bank (ADB),the mind behind this highway and the larger Greater Mekong Subregion infrastructure project, cons [...] | 2008-11-17 01:08:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELTN ECIN EINV ELAB ETRD EWWT PREL BM VM |
08CHIANGMAI175 | THAIS SEE ECONOMIC BENEFIT FROM CONTRACT FARMING IN BURMA [...] (C) Thai contract farming is a growing feature of the Thai-Burmese bilateral economic relationship. The activity remains concentrated in the border areas, however. Thai businesspeople who engage in contract farming in Burma are generally individuals who conduct their business informally with [...] | 2008-11-20 10:01:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECON EAGR EAID ECIN EINV ETRD PREL BM TH |
08CHIANGMAI34 | THAI-LAO BORDER CHECKPOINT GIVES GLIMPSE INTO [...] (C) A visit to a small Thai-Lao border checkpoint revealed good cross-border cooperation, predictable trade patterns, and little or no illegal migration. However, the local Thai military commander reported that narcotics trafficking networks in the region were increasingly shifting their tran [...] | 2008-03-04 09:16:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PREF ETRD TH LA |
08CHIANGMAI35 | SMALL U.S. FIRM FINDS HIGH-END GARMENT NICHE IN RURAL [...] RICO International is a small, U.S.-owned garment-maker in a remote corner of northern Thailand. It produces expensive hand-knit sweaters for sale in the U.S. to high-end clothiers. By staying in this high-end niche and keeping production volume low, RICO turns a profit despite competing with [...] | 2008-03-05 04:19:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV BTIO TH CH |
08CHIANGMAI51 | SKILLED LABOR SHORTAGE, HIGH TRANSPORT COSTS HINDER [...] In meetings with the Ambassador March 18, business leaders highlighted a shortage of highly skilled labor and unusually high transportation costs as key obstacles to expanding development and American investment in northern Thailand. Local Thai business leaders echoed the calls of American fir [...] | 2008-03-28 09:27:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELTN ETRD ETTC SOCI TH |
08CHIANGMAI52 | REGIONAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS BRINGS TOGETHER [...] In an effort to promote development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) logistics and transportation sectors and to underscore U.S. interest in deepening investment in the region, post hosted a conference on March 18-19 bringing together public and private sector representatives from across t [...] | 2008-03-28 09:40:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELTN ECIN ETRD EWWT PREL TH BM CH LA CB |
08CHIANGMAI53 | CORRECTED COPY: SKILLED LABOR SHORTAGE, HIGH TRANSPORT COSTS [...] In meetings with the Ambassador March 18, business leaders highlighted a shortage of highly skilled labor and unusually high transportation costs as key obstacles to expanding development and American investment in northern Thailand. Local Thai business leaders echoed the calls of American fir [...] | 2008-03-28 09:47:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELTN ETRD ETTC SOCI TH |
08CHIANGMAI72 | AS PRICES RISE, THE NORTHERN RICE BOWL EXPANDS [...] Northern Thai farmers expressed joy to us about rising rice prices during a recent trip by ECON staff to the lower northern provinces of Sukhothai, Phitsanulok, and Phichit, collectively known as the "Rice Bowl of the North." Farmers and rice mill managers cited an over 50% increase in rice pr [...] | 2008-05-08 08:13:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TH |
08CHIANGMAI73 | CHINESE LANGUAGE STUDY RISING IN NORTHERN THAILAND, BUT NOT [...] Though not at the cost of English language students, Chinese language learning is growing more popular across northern Thailand, from high school students to Royal Thai Government (RTG) officials. Despite this trend, English study continues to be the students' preference as it comes with the h [...] | 2008-05-12 10:31:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL ETRD PREL TH CH |
08CHIANGMAI86 | PIRATED GOODS DOMINATE NORTHERN THAI MARKETS [...] With sales of licensed intellectual property dropping 50 percent so far this year, pirated goods are deepening their stronghold in the Chiang Mai and upper northern Thai markets. Risks remain low for merchants to engage in the piracy business; thus, the legal market for DVDs, CDs, and software [...] | 2008-06-04 11:15:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV TH BM |
08CHIANGMAI96 | AFTER NARGIS, A BORDER TRADE BOOM IN THAILAND'S FAVOR [...] (C) Trade activity on the Thai-Burma border is bustling as demand for relief supplies remains high in Burma after cyclone Nargis. Thai exports to Burma through Mae Sot increased 75% last month compared to May 2007, and officials do not expect export volumes to drop to normal levels anytime soo [...] | 2008-06-23 07:03:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL EINV EAID EAGR TH BM |
08CHIANGMAI97 | REMITTANCES FROM THAILAND LIFT INCOMES IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Remittances transferred from the one-to-two million Burmese migrant workers in Thailand are an important source of income for their families in Burma. With migrant workers transferring about half of their incomes to their relatives in Burma, anywhere from $375 million to $1 billion could [...] | 2008-06-23 09:59:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PREL PHUM EAID EIND ELAB ETRD TH BM |
08CHISINAU1159 | MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE CONCERNING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:48:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR TBIO EAID PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU1273 | GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS IN MOLDOVA [...] Summary: Moldova's underdeveloped banking sector and stock market and the absence of speculative capital have enabled the country to avoid any initial shock from the global economic crisis. Quite the opposite, the country is set to finish 2008 with seven percent GDP growth and record high l [...] | 2008-12-30 08:22:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV KTDB MD |
08CHISINAU130 | MORE TRANSNISTRIAN LEGAL TRADE IN 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Throughout 2007 the Government of Moldova (GOM) honored its commitment to facilitate legal Transnistrian (TN) trade. The GOM's final 2007 TN trade data document increases in certified exports and imports, increases in the numbers of companies registered with Chisinau, and increa [...] | 2008-02-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV ETRD OSCE MD |
08CHISINAU151 | MOLDOVA: TROUBLE ON THE DANUBE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Progress at the port of Giurgiulesti, Moldova's sole access to the Danube River, continues with the construction of additional berths for unloading bulk cargo and grains, and a grain storage facility. In 2007, the port's oil terminal opened, receiving the first shipment of gasol [...] | 2008-02-14 12:21:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EWWT PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU39 | MOLDOVA 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Embassy Chisinau submits the 2008 Investment Climate Statement in response to reftel. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. Moldova continues to take steps toward developing a stronger economy, reforming a cumbersome regulatory framework, combating corruption a [...] | 2008-01-15 12:34:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR MD |
08CHISINAU418 | FIRST QUARTER TRANSNISTRIAN TRADE GROWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Moldova's (GOM) Transnistrian (TN) trade data show significant increases in certified exports (+30%) and imports (+22%) documented by the Moldovan Customs Service (MCS) in the first quarter. Since January, 26 more TN companies have registered with Chisinau, inc [...] | 2008-04-16 14:48:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PBTS ETRD MD |
08CHISINAU469 | UPDATE ON FORCED AND CHILD LABOR IN MOLDOVAN GOODS [...] According to figures from the Moldovan Labor Inspection Unit (LIU),collected by ILO in Chisinau, no cases of forced labor, including forced child labor, were discovered in Moldova in 2006 or 2007. However, of 371 cases of child labor investigated in 2007, 73 involved no violations, and 298 [...] | 2008-05-02 14:07:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI MD |
08CHISINAU510 | MOLDOVA SEES NO PROBLEM WITH VOTING FOR HULEBAK AT THIS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 09:44:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TRIO KPAO PREL MD |
08CHISINAU511 | MOLDOVA WILL REPORT ON UNSCR 1803 COMPLIANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 14:30:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR MD |
08CHISINAU536 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES THE PRESIDENT'S GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO MD |
08CHISINAU537 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES REQUEST TO END FOOD STAPLE EXPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON TBIO MD |
08COLOMBO1063 | AUSTR DELANEY'S VISIT TO SRI LANKA [...] (U) Summary: Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for South Asia Michael Delaney visited Sri Lanka November 11-14 to engage with key government and business leaders, to discuss issues related to U.S.- Sri Lanka Trade and Investment Framework Agreement talks, and to review labor issues raised in [...] | 2008-11-26 07:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV CE |
08COLOMBO1073 | SRI LANKA: AUSTR DELANEY DISCUSSES LABOR AND THE AFL-CIO [...] (U) Summary: During a November 11-14 visit, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (AUSTR) Michael Delaney met with key Sri Lankan government officials and local trade union representatives to discuss the June 2008 AFL-CIO petition to USTR that alleges Sri Lanka's labor laws do not comply with i [...] | 2008-11-28 03:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD EINV EAID PGOV KMCA CE |
08COLOMBO108 | FY08 BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH STRATEGY AND DEPARTMENT [...] Post appreciates the opportunity to request funding for biotechnology outreach programs in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is at a turning point with respect to biotechnology. The country has regulations to label, regulate and control the import of Genetically Modified (GM) foods, as well as to regulat [...] | 2008-01-29 11:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO |
08COLOMBO1118 | SRI LANKA LIKELY SUPPORTIVE OF PROPOSED GLOBAL [...] Econ Chief delivered reftel points to Additional Secretary for Agriculture Development and Agrarian Services AAR Ratnayake on December 8. Although Ratnayake could not pledge full GSL support for the Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food (GPAF),she stated Sri Lanka would be in favor of [...] | 2008-12-09 01:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV TBIO CE |
08COLOMBO120 | SRI LANKA: TOURISM DOWN 12% IN 2007; COULD HAVE BEEN [...] Summary: The escalating ethnic conflict continues to hurt the Sri Lankan tourism industry, which experienced a 12% decrease in visitors in 2007 compared to 2006. Industry representatives have mixed assessments of the possible impact of the recent escalation of violence and the consequent bad [...] | 2008-01-31 10:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN PTER CE |
08COLOMBO166 | SRI LANKA: GERMAN AID MINISTER CALLS FOR EU TO [...] (C) Summary: German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul told the German press this week that she would urge the EU to withdraw Sri Lanka's eligibility for tariff-free exports to the EU under the GSP program if Sri Lanka continues to pursue a military res [...] | 2008-02-15 10:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETRD CE |
08COLOMBO193 | SRI LANKA: EXPORTS TO U.S. DECLINE BUT STILL NINE TIMES [...] (U) Summary: The United States merchandise trade deficit with Sri Lanka in 2007 was $1.84 billion. Sri Lanka's exports to the United States were $2.1 billion, while U.S. exports to Sri Lanka were $227 million -- a ratio of about nine-to-one. The EU replaced the United States as Sri Lanka's l [...] | 2008-02-25 11:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN EAID CE |
08COLOMBO39 | BFIF FY08 PROPOSALS FOR SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES [...] Post expresses its appreciation for continued BFIF support of commercial activities in Sri Lanka and Maldives. Post has witnessed considerable success from BFIF support for the "American Pavilion" at the annual Maldives trade show (ref B); the Ambassador and post's Econ/Commercial Section str [...] | 2008-01-10 05:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD KIPR CE MV |
08COLOMBO461 | SRI LANKA: POLICE RAID VENDORS OF PIRATED SOFTWARE [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 6, Sri Lankan police raided software dealers in a popular shopping mall in Colombo. The raid was Sri Lanka's first intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement action against pirated software dealers. With uncommon swiftness, offenders were raided, charged, pleaded g [...] | 2008-05-12 11:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EAID CE |
08COLOMBO504 | ICAO'S NINETEENTH AVIATION SECURITY PANEL MEETING - SRI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 05:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL PTER CE |
08COLOMBO56 | MALDIVES: PRESIDENT AND AMBASSADOR LAUNCH PILOT RENEWABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador joined Maldives President Gayoom January 7 for the commissioning of a pilot renewable energy project that uses turbines produced by U.S. company Southwest Windpower. The hybrid wind/solar/diesel micro-grid power systems replace the inefficient generators that most Mal [...] | 2008-01-11 08:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV SENV PREL MV |
08COLOMBO58 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2008 - MALDIVES [...] Per reftel, below is the investment climate statement for Maldives for 2008. INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT-MALDIVES FEBRUARY 2008 Investment Climate --Introduction Maldives is comprised of over 1,190 islands, of which 198 are inhabited and 95 are exclusive resort islands. The popu [...] | 2008-01-14 02:57:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB OPIC ECON USTR EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV MV |
08COLOMBO61 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2008 - SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-14 10:32:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CE ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR |
08COLOMBO719 | MALDIVES: EMPLOYMENT BILL RATIFIED AMID CONCERNS [...] (U) Summary: The President of Maldives recently ratified an employment bill which sets new rights and responsibilities for workers including a minimum wage, a limit on weekly working hours, and the establishment of an institution to resolve employment-related disputes. The legislation was cri [...] | 2008-07-25 05:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EAID ETRD PHUM SOCI MV |
08COLOMBO735 | Pakistan-Sri Lanka FTA Presents Opportunities for U.S. [...] (U) Summary: Trade between Pakistan and Sri Lanka has increased significantly following signing of the Pakistan-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement in June 2005. Total trade in 2004 was valued at USD 147.4 million; by 2007 it grew to USD 233.4 million, an increase of 58 percent. As tariffs are re [...] | 2008-08-04 09:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAID CE PK |
08COLOMBO783 | SRI LANKA: DUE DILIGENCE FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S 2008 [...] We appreciate the continued consideration of Virtusa as a candidate for the Secretary's Awards for Corporate Excellence. We continue to support fully this company for the ACE. 2. Our response to ref A is keyed to the questions in para 4: A) The Embassy knows of no downside to Virtusa beco [...] | 2008-08-22 05:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON AMGT ELAB ETRD SENV AFIN KSEP CE |
08COLOMBO850 | SRI LANKA VENTURES INTO NANOTECHNOLOGY [...] Summary: The Sri Lankan business community and the government will establish Sri Lanka's first-ever attempt at public-private partnership in research and development with the establishment of a nanotechnology research and development institute and a nanotechnology park. The venture, which aim [...] | 2008-09-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE |
08COLOMBO92 | SRI LANKA: TEXTILE AND APPAREL SECTOR CONCERNS FOR 2008: [...] (U) Summary: Sri Lanka's garment sector remains healthy, but is concerned about the possible impact of a U.S. recession. An even more pressing worry is the possibility of losing preferential access to the EU market under the EU's GSP+ program. The industry is frustrated that the government [...] | 2008-01-24 11:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX CE |
08COLOMBO922 | SRI LANKA: ECONOMY GROWING, BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN [...] (U) Summary: Despite the war, Sri Lanka's GDP grew by a respectable 6.6% in the first half of 2008. The Sri Lankan rupee (SLR) remains relatively steady due to Central Bank intervention. Other key macro indicators weakened. Inflation remains high at 24.3%. The trade deficit expanded sharply [...] | 2008-10-07 11:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD KMCA CE |
08CONAKRY110 | GUINEA ASKS FOR HELP TO ALLEVIATE ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs urgently requested a meeting with the Ambassador in order to request help in dealing with rising prices for basic foodstuffs. The Ambassador responded with tough questions about corruption and the government's new export ban on foodstuffs [...] | 2008-04-17 12:34:00 | Embassy Conakry | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EAGR EAID ECON EPET ETRD GV PGOV PREL |
08CONAKRY178 | PLANT VISIT - TIMBER EXPLOITATION IN GUINEA'S FOREST [...] (U) On April 20, Ambassador Carter visited Foret Forte facilities in the heart of Guinea's forest region, about an hour outside the provincial capital of N'Zerekore. The Taiwanese-owned company has been harshly criticized for its alleged environmentally harmful logging practices as well as its [...] | 2008-05-09 10:16:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GV EAGR ECON ETRD ELAB |
08CONAKRY195 | AGOA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Pursuant to REFTEL, on April 13, Econoff met with the Secretary General at the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Falilou Barry, regarding the upcoming AGOA Forum to be held July 14-16 in Washington, D.C. 2. The Secretary General expressed his gratitude for the information and stated that he would c [...] | 2008-05-14 13:42:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAID GV |
08CONAKRY256 | GUINEA - REQUEST TO END FOOD STAPLE EXPORT [...] (SBU) On May 23, Ambassador Carter provided Guinea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kabele Camara, with a translated version of the reftel note memoire regarding ending export restrictions. The Minister said that he generally supports the U.S. position and would take the USG position into cons [...] | 2008-06-02 11:16:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON TBIO GV |
08CONAKRY260 | GUINEA - AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL TO [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Ambassador Carter met with Guinea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kabele Camara, on May 23 and provided him with a translated version of the note memoire on agricultural biotechnology. The Minister said that the GoG generally supports the USG on this issue and expres [...] | 2008-06-02 11:39:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON TBIO GV |
08CONAKRY317 | KOUNDARA - ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMENTS ON THE EXPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a visit to the northern town of Koundara the week of June 2, LES Asst Econoff met with local authorities, civil society organizations, and customs agents to discuss general economic activity and Guinea's agricultural export ban. Koundara is a major agricultural producer as well [...] | 2008-06-25 10:03:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV EAGR ETRD PREL GV |
08CONAKRY34 | FSN NOMINATION FOR ECONOMIC TRAINING [...] Pursuant to REFTEL Embassy Conakry Embassy Conakry nominates the following Foreign Service National (FSN) for the Spring 2008 FSN Economic Training class to be held April 7- 18, 2008 at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, Virginia. 2. Name of FSN: [...] | 2008-01-14 13:21:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI ECON AMGT AFSN ETRD GV |
08COPENHAGEN321 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S PARTICIPATION AT ARCTIC OCEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary Negroponte led the U.S. delegation to the Arctic Ocean Conference hosted by the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland Home Rule Government in Ilulissat, Greenland May 27-29. In closed discussions during the conference and at a concluding press conference, all part [...] | 2008-06-06 10:53:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV OVIP PBTS PHSA KGHG ENRG ETRD |
08COPENHAGEN322 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH DANISH FM MOELLER [...] (C) Summary: In a May 27 meeting before the opening of the Arctic Ocean Conference in Ilulissat, Greenland, Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Danish FM Per Stig Moeller exchanged perspectives on cooperation in the Arctic; underlined shared goals for a climate change agreement and resolution of t [...] | 2008-06-06 10:55:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SENV ETRD PBTS MARR KGHG AORC DA |
08COPENHAGEN323 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH NORWEGIAN FM [...] (C) Summary: In a May 28 meeting before the start of the Arctic Ocean Conference in Ilulissat, Greenland, Norwegian FM Jonas Gahr Stoere and Deputy Secretary Negroponte discussed Arctic issues, Afghanistan, Pakistan, cluster munitions, and, briefly, the Doha Round of trade negotiations. Stoer [...] | 2008-06-06 10:57:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SENV PBTS MARR KGHG ETRD NO |
08COPENHAGEN335 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S PARTICIPATION AT ARCTIC OCEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary Negroponte led the U.S. delegation to the Arctic Ocean Conference hosted by the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland Home Rule Government in Ilulissat, Greenland May 27-29. In closed discussions during the conference and at a concluding press conference, all part [...] | 2008-06-11 11:13:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV OVIP PBTS PHSA KGHG ENRG ETRD |
08COPENHAGEN336 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH DANISH FM MOELLER [...] (C) Summary: In a May 27 meeting before the opening of the Arctic Ocean Conference in Ilulissat, Greenland, Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Danish FM Per Stig Moeller exchanged perspectives on cooperation in the Arctic; underlined shared goals for a climate change agreement and resolution of t [...] | 2008-06-11 11:17:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SENV ETRD PBTS MARR KGHG AORC DA |
08COPENHAGEN337 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH NORWEGIAN FM [...] (C) Summary: In a May 28 meeting before the start of the Arctic Ocean Conference in Ilulissat, Greenland, Norwegian FM Jonas Gahr Stoere and Deputy Secretary Negroponte discussed Arctic issues, Afghanistan, Pakistan, cluster munitions, and, briefly, the Doha Round of trade negotiations. Stoer [...] | 2008-06-11 11:19:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SENV PBTS MARR KGHG ETRD NO |
08COPENHAGEN348 | DANES SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. IWC WHALING PROPOSALS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Danish government is supportive of the IWC Chair's recommendations and plan of action, and recommends incorporating a mix of geographic and 'ideological' balance in the small working group to develop a possible package of initiatives. The Danes also support procedural impro [...] | 2008-06-16 11:36:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD DA |
08COPENHAGEN430 | DANES ON NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 13:21:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD BM EUN DA |
08COPENHAGEN668 | 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: DENMARK [...] Following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement (ICS09). ICS09 will form part of the 2009 Country Commercial Guide for Denmark. 2. INVESTMENT CLIMATE - Denmark Introduction Denmark is characterized by political, economic and regulatory stability. The macroeconomic environment is [...] | 2008-12-16 15:46:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC DA |
08COTONOU162 | BENIN TO HOST SAHEL-SAHARAN STATES COMMUNITY SUMMIT [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Benin (GOB) is preparing to host in June 2008 the 10th Summit of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD). To help ensure a successful summit, there is massive road and housing construction in Cotonou to increase accommodation capacity for the many delegate [...] | 2008-03-14 07:14:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ETRD BN |
08COTONOU192 | CHINESE FOOTPRINT DEEPENS IN BENIN [...] (C) Summary: Chinese Ambassador to Benin Li Beifen, whose husband has joined her at post for the past few months, told the Ambassador on March 22 that she ends her tour in Benin in April 2008 and will be replaced by China's current ambassador in the Seychelles. China/Benin relations expanded g [...] | 2008-04-03 09:54:00 | Embassy Cotonou | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL EAID ETRD PINR EINV CH BN |
08COTONOU314 | BENIN: FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF [...] This cable responds to reftel requests for information on Forced Labor and Child Labor in the production of goods. ----------------------- Rocks and Mineral Goods ----------------------- 2. According to Norbert Fanou Ako, Director of the the NGO ESAM, "Enfants Solidaires d'Afrique et du [...] | 2008-05-29 18:31:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID BN |
08COTONOU342 | POST DELIVERED AGOA INVITAION LETTER [...] On June 13, 2008, the Embassy delivered the AGOA forum invitation (Reftel) to the following members of the GOB: - Mr. Pascal I. Koupaki, Minister of State, for Economic Forecasting, Development and the Evaluation Public Action; - Mr. Moussa Okanla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integra [...] | 2008-06-17 12:35:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ETRD EINV EAID PGOV BN |
08COTONOU39 | BENIN'S 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Please find below Embassy Cotonou's submission for Benin's 2008 Investment Climate Statement keyed to the topics in Reftel. ------------------------------ Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. President Yayi, in office since April 2006, aims to establish double [...] | 2008-01-16 10:41:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC BN |
08COTONOU406 | BENIN DELEGATION TO AGOA FORUM [...] Benin's official delegation to the AGOA forum in Washington, D.C. will be led by Ernestine Attanasso, the Director General of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The Embassy was informed on July 11 that Benin's Minister of Industry and Commerce, Gregoire Akofodji, would no [...] | 2008-07-11 12:52:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAID BN |
08COTONOU5 | GOB TAKES MEASURES AGAINST INFLATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 07:44:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV BN |
08COTONOU630 | USITC STUDY ON BENIN: EFFECTS OF INSTRASTRUCTURE CONDITIONS [...] Per reftel, Post provides the following: -- AmEmbassy Cotonou's contact for this subject study (pending the arrival of a Pol/EconOff) is Mr. Marius C. Lotsu, the Economic/Commercial Assistant. His contact details follow: U.S. Embassy; 01B.P. 2012 Cotonou, Benin Rue Caporal Bernard Anani; E-ma [...] | 2008-10-03 09:15:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETRD ASEC EK PU SE XA BN |
08COTONOU779 | BENIN'S 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Please find below Embassy Cotonou's submission for Benin's 2009 Investment Climate Statement keyed to the topics in reftel. ------------------------------ Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. President Yayi, in office since April 2006, aims to establish double [...] | 2008-12-15 08:15:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC BN |
08DAKAR1011 | PRESIDENT WADE FIRES BUDGET MINISTER AFTER REVELATIONS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 7 cabinet meeting, President Wade fired Budget Minister Ibrahima Sarr and named Mamadou Abdoulaye Sow, a career Senegal Treasury official, as the new Minister. The Presidential decree to remove Sarr -- which came just hours after Wade met the IMF Resrep -- fol [...] | 2008-09-02 17:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV ETRD EAID KCOR SG |
08DAKAR1246 | SENEGAL'S ECONOMIC INDICATORS DROP AS THE GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal continues to struggle to find the means to pay off its large stock of internal debt owed to private suppliers. The accumulated effects of financial indiscipline and adverse exogenous factors are negatively impacting projected GDP growth, inflation, and government defic [...] | 2008-10-31 07:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAID SG |
08DAKAR1282 | SENEGAL ACHIEVES MILESTONE IN RENEWED EFFORT TO ACHIEVE AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: By presenting comprehensive concept papers in a timely manner for important projects, including roads, irrigation, and judicial reform, Senegal has achieved an important milestone in its effort to sign an MCC Compact. MCC Vice President John Hewko told the MCA-Senegal Steering [...] | 2008-11-05 17:40:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA ECON EFIN EINV ETRD SG |
08DAKAR1431 | SENEGAL'S LATEST TREASURY BONDS; A CREATIVE APPROACH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In early December, Senegal launched a USD 40 million treasury bond offering as one part of the government's plan to pay off the debt it owes to private sector contractors. In marketing the bonds, the regional central bank and the Ministry of Finance reportedly promised subscrib [...] | 2008-12-16 14:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD SG |
08DAKAR153 | SENEGAL'S ACCELERATED GROWTH STRATEGY - MOVING FORWARD OR [...] SUMMARY: On December 31, 2007, Senegal's National Assembly passed a law to speed up the implementation of one of President Wade's cornerstone economic policies, the Accelerated Growth Strategy (AGS). The legislation also combines the AGS' goals into Senegal's 2006-2010 Poverty Reduction Stra [...] | 2008-02-07 11:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EINV SG |
08DAKAR227 | SENEGAL COUNTING ON MITTAL TO JUMP-START THE COUNTRY'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Econ Counselor, Mr. Birame Diouf, Managing Director of Miferso, Senegal's mining sector parastatal, explained details of Senegal's iron ore mining agreement with India's ArcelorMittal, as well as the status of a lawsuit brought by South Africa's Kumba Resources [...] | 2008-02-26 15:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ECON ETRD EINV ELAB SG |
08DAKAR320 | GUINEA-BISSAU AGOA - INPUT FOR 2008 PRESIDENT'S REPORT [...] Embassy input on Guinea-Bissau follows for the 2008 President's report on AGOA keyed to the template outlined in reftel and last year's report as published by USTR. This text will also be provided to AF/W and AF/EPS via e-mail. 2. Begin Post's input: AGOA Trade and Investment: Guinea- [...] | 2008-03-14 11:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PU |
08DAKAR424 | PRICE HIKES CHALLENGE SENEGAL'S SOCIAL STABILITY [...] SUMMARY: Senegalese, especially urban dwellers, are somewhat bewildered by the recurrence and scope of price hikes in local markets, supermarkets, and from specialty vendors. Price increases in gasoline, cooking fuel, vegetable oil, rice, sugar, cement, and transportation services have creat [...] | 2008-04-10 11:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV SG |
08DAKAR471 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] SUMMARY: Guinea-Bissau is a net importer of basic foodstuffs, most significantly rice. Rising world market prices and reduced local production due to poor rainfall are impacting availability and price. So far, there have not been demonstrations or unrest to protest the rising cost of living [...] | 2008-04-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EFIN SOCI PGOV PU |
08DAKAR523 | RESPONSE ON IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal's 2007-08 cereal deficit is estimated at 1.4 million metric tons (MT),a significant increase from previous years. The country could face a cereal shortage of 250,000-400,000 MT in the next six months and with low global stocks and high commodity prices, it is not know [...] | 2008-05-06 14:57:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD EFIN SOCI PGOV SG |
08DAKAR688 | SENEGAL: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE [...] (U) The majority of working children can be found in agriculture, livestock herding, hunting, fishing, domestic service, sewing and weaving activities, transportation, construction, as well as in automobile repair shops, restaurants, and hotels. Children also work in hazardous conditions in ro [...] | 2008-06-11 14:23:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD SOCI PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG |
08DAKAR821 | SENEGAL'S PREPARATION FOR THE 2008 AGOA FORUM [...] SUMMARY: On July 9, Senegal's Ministry of Trade Mamadou Diop Decroix convened a stakeholder meeting to evaluate the preparations for the GOS' participation in the July 14-16 AGOA Forum. He also spurred a debate as to why AGOA has been a failure in Senegal. Representatives from the private se [...] | 2008-07-14 10:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD SENV EAGR EINV EFIN EAID SG |
08DAMASCUS199 | SYRIAN BUSINESSMEN AND E.O. 13460: A STRATEGY TO [...] (S) Post proposes an operational strategy to use E.O. 13460 to expose and exploit Bashar al-Asad's domestic economic vulnerabilities (ref A). These include the growing influence of a Syrian business class resentful of increased regime extortion despite Bashar's promised economic reforms, the [...] | 2008-03-20 11:25:00 | Embassy Damascus | SECRET | EFIN EINV ETRD ETTC KCOR PGOV SY LE |
08DAMASCUS209 | SECOND GASOLINE PRICE HIKE IN FIVE MONTHS [...] (SBU) At midnight on Friday, March 21, the SARG raised the price of gasoline from 36 SP/liter (USD 2.72/gal) to 40 SP/liter (USD 3.02/gal),an increase of 11 percent, throughout Syria. The last gasoline price increase occurred on November 1, 2007, when the SARG raised the price from 30 SP/lit [...] | 2008-03-27 15:21:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETRD SY |
08DAMASCUS240 | SARG PREPARES TO DISTRIBUTE DIESEL RATION CARDS [...] (SBU) The SARG announced this week that diesel ration cards will be distributed to all Syrian households from April 12-27. The coupons will allow families to purchase 1000 liters of diesel at a substantial discount, although the discounted price is still expected to be 20-25 percent higher th [...] | 2008-04-10 14:20:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS307 | LABOR DAY WEEKEND, SYRIAN STYLE: DIESEL UP 357 [...] (SBU) In keeping with regime tradition, the SARG chose a holiday weekend to announce major changes in economic policy. In the middle of the three-day Labor Day weekend, the SARG increased the price of diesel fuel and butane gas by 357 percent and 72 percent, respectively. On the same day, Pr [...] | 2008-05-04 14:49:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS364 | SYRIA-CUBA: TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT, MAY 2008 [...] (U) In response to ref A: The SARG has taken no actions to promote the advancement of democracy or human rights in Cuba and as a matter of foreign policy has expressed a support for Cuban policies. 2. (U) The SARG has made no public statements or undertaken other governmental actions [...] | 2008-05-22 14:57:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU SY |
08DAMASCUS438 | THE IMPACT OF U.S. SANCTIONS ON CIVIL AVIATION IN [...] (C) Syrian Arab Airlines' ability to sustain operations has degraded in recent years and is estimated to be currently operating just six of at least 15 aircraft in its fleet. The SARG amended its aviation laws in 2005 to allow private airlines to enter the market, but as is often the case in [...] | 2008-06-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD PGOV PTER SY |
08DAMASCUS451 | BASHAR'S INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT - A HOLLOW PR [...] (C) Summary. A candid, usually frank business contact who accompanied Bashar Al-Asad to India gave an interesting readout which reflects Bashar's focus on his image and his ability to miss opportunities. The business contact expressed frustration over the lack of concrete results from the v [...] | 2008-06-24 15:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS497 | FRENCH-SYRIAN ECONOMIC INITIATIVES STRUGGLE TO [...] (C) As Bashar prepares to visit Paris on July 12-14, French and Syrian officials are discussing potential economic initiatives to flesh out the political agenda of a new phase in bilateral relations. The French Embassy confirmed that the GOF has invited a Syrian business delegation to Paris l [...] | 2008-07-10 15:37:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD PGOV PTER SY FR |
08DAMASCUS518 | POLITICAL IMPACT OF SYRIA'S RECORD-LOW WHEAT [...] (SBU) The 2008 harvest of Syria's primary strategic crop -- wheat -- declined by 50 percent from 2007, primarily due to bad weather. For the first time in 15 years the SARG has turned to the international wheat market to compensate for the shortfall in supply. Even with this year's record-low [...] | 2008-07-20 05:24:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS524 | FOREIGN TOURISM TO SYRIA UP 40 PERCENT IN 2008 [...] (C) At the mid-point of 2008, the Syrian economy is enjoying its best tourism season since 2002, and a 40 percent increase in foreign tourism over 2007. A local expert attributes the increase to a year of political stability in the region and a greater SARG investment in marketing Syria in Eu [...] | 2008-07-22 06:27:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS559 | SUPPORTING SYRIA'S EMERGING PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (C) After 45 years of Baathist socialism, private enterprise is gaining momentum in Syria. Over the past 18 months, the SARG has enacted six major economic reforms that were long advocated by international consultants but bitterly resisted by Baath Party apparatchiks. Encouraged by the refor [...] | 2008-08-07 16:16:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD ETTC KCOR PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS599 | MAKHLOUF AIRLINE TO PURCHASE BOMBARDIER AIRCRAFT [...] (C) Reliable media sources are reporting that the first private Syrian airline is in negotiations to purchase Bombardier passenger aircraft from the Canadian manufacturer. The airline, known as Cham Pearl, is principally backed by President Asad's cousin (and Specially Designated National) Ra [...] | 2008-08-20 14:53:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EFIN ETRD PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS646 | SARKOZY'S VISIT YIELDS VICTORY FOR FRENCH OIL [...] (C) The most significant economic development resulting from French President Nicholas Sarkozy's visit to Damascus was the signing of an MOU with the SARG that would position the French petroleum company Total to take the lead on any potential projects linking Syria's petroleum infrastructure [...] | 2008-09-15 15:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV FR SY |
08DAMASCUS661 | SYRIAN AIR TO SELL ALL BOEING AIRCRAFT [...] (C) Syrian Air executives report that the airline's management intends to sell its two Boeing 747s and six Boeing 727s rather than attempt to overhaul them. They reported that the one remaining operational Boeing aircraft in the Syrian Air fleet, a 747, will be grounded on October 1, 2008, an [...] | 2008-09-18 15:05:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV FR SY |
08DAMASCUS691 | MURKY OUTLOOK FOR SYRIAN ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Under sweltering, sand-filled and polluted skies -- symptomatic of Syria's environmental challenges -- Amman ESTH Hub officer and Emboffs held environment-related August 27 meetings in Damascus. Low environmental awareness, weak enforcement of environmental laws and regulations [...] | 2008-10-06 04:11:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EENV ETRD EAID PGOV SY |
08DAMASCUS727 | PART I OF A SERIES: IRANIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN [...] (SBU) This is the first cable in a three-part series examining Iranian economic activity in Syria. Iranian-Syrian economic cooperation is overstated by both the SARG and Iranian government in an attempt to create the public perception that a mutually beneficial economic relationship has resu [...] | 2008-10-16 16:19:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET ETRD PGOV IR SY |
08DAMASCUS735 | PART II OF A SERIES: IRANIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN [...] (SBU) This is the second cable in a three-part series examining Iranian economic activity in Syria. The largest Iranian investment projects in Syria are two car assembly plants that are struggling to break even just one year after opening. Several other projects touted as "investment" are ac [...] | 2008-10-21 13:57:00 | Embassy Damascus | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN EPET ETRD PGOV IR SY |
08DAMASCUS742 | PART III OF A SERIES: IRANIAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN [...] (C) This is the third and final cable in a three-part series examining Iranian economic activity in Syria. The greatest interaction between the Syrian and Iranian private sectors results from Syria's historical importance in Shi'ism. Iranian religious pilgrims represent the largest single bl [...] | 2008-10-27 11:19:00 | Embassy Damascus | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN EPET ETRD PGOV IR SY |
08DAMASCUS849 | SARG FAST-TRACKING EU ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) An EU diplomat in Damascus confirmed that a delegation would travel to Damascus to publicly "initial" the EU Association Agreement with Syria on December 14, following the successful conclusion of negotiations to update the agreement text on November 24 in Brussels. In her view, President [...] | 2008-11-26 14:36:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV EU SY |
08DAMASCUS850 | SYRIAN AIR DEDICATES LAST FOUR PLANES TO HAJJ [...] (C) A Syrian Air ticketing agent told Embassy staff that the airline is currently operating just four of its fleet of 16 aircraft, due to its inability to obtain essential spare parts. From November 22 to December 9, Syrian Air is dedicating its four remaining operational Airbus A320s to flyi [...] | 2008-11-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL SA SY |
08DAMASCUS862 | BAILING OUT THE SHAM: SARG CONTRACT RESCUES [...] (C) A reputable Syrian website reported that the SARG will supply Syrian public sector entities with "Sham"-model automobiles. The "Sham" (colloquial Arabic for Syria) is a Peugot-based sedan produced by a joint Syrian-Iranian assembly plant (SIAMCO) in rural Damascus that opened in 2007. B [...] | 2008-12-02 12:56:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET ETRD PGOV IR SY |
08DARESSALAAM14 | TANZANIA DECEMBER 2007 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: EU TRADE [...] In this issue: - Concerns on EU Trade Agreement - Government Heavy Borrowing - GDP on the Rise, Standard of Living Stagnant - Counterfeit Mobile Phones Flood Shops ------------------------------- Concerns on EU Trade Agreement ------------------------------- 2. Following the si [...] | 2008-01-07 09:15:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD TZ |
08DARESSALAAM233 | TANZANIA MARCH 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: TOURISM, PRIVATE [...] In this issue: -- Tourism Overtakes Agriculture in Economy -- More Credit Extended to the Private Sector -- GOT Hires Consultants to Study Minimum Wage -- CTI Bemoans Barriers to EAC Trading -- President Kikwete to Attend Arusha Tourism Forum in May 2008 -- Sullivan Summit June 2 - [...] | 2008-04-10 12:55:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ECIN EIND EINV ELAB ETRD TZ |
08DARESSALAAM3 | AUSTR LISER DISCUSSES BOEING AND FLEET EXPANSION WITH AIR [...] (U) AUSTR Florie Liser learned from David Mattaka, Chief Executive Officer of Air Tanzania Company (ATC,) and three ATC Board Directors in a November 13 meeting in Arusha that the Board had recommended to the Government of Tanzania (GOT) to acquire Airbus A-320s (narrow body planes) to expand i [...] | 2008-01-02 14:04:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL TZ |
08DARESSALAAM312 | PREPARATIONS AND FUNDING REQUEST FOR SULLIVAN SUMMIT IN [...] For the last 18 months, we have worked collaboratively with AF/EPS, with the organizers of the Leon Sullivan Summit, and with the Tanzanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFA) to prepare for the Eighth Sullivan Summit - "The Summit of a Lifetime" - in Arusha, Tanzan [...] | 2008-05-21 10:41:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV KPAO TZ |
08DARESSALAAM313 | [ C O R R E C T E D C O P Y ] PREPARATIONS AND FUNDING [...] For the last 18 months, we have worked collaboratively with AF/EPS, with the organizers of the Leon Sullivan Summit, and with the Tanzanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFA) to prepare for the Eighth Sullivan Summit - "The Summit of a Lifetime" - in Arusha, Tanzan [...] | 2008-05-21 15:00:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV KPAO TZ |
08DARESSALAAM32 | TANZANIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 12:13:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR TZ |
08DARESSALAAM380 | TANZANIA: FOLLOW-UP FUNDING REQUEST TO FY-08 BUSINESS [...] Post appreciates the funding from the Business Facilitation and Investment Fund (BFIF) to support the U.S. Embassy pavilion at the 2008 Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF)(Ref B). This year the Embassy has recruited numerous companies to participate in an expanded "Buy USA" pavilion [...] | 2008-06-19 15:22:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV TZ |
08DARESSALAAM412 | STRONG USG REPRESENTATION AT TANZANIA'S SULLIVAN SUMMIT [...] The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation greatly appreciated The strong U.S. Government (USG) representation at the Eighth Annual Sullivan Summit held in Arusha, Tanzania from June 2 to 6. Led by a White House Delegation headed by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, almost all USG departments [...] | 2008-07-04 04:41:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD EINV TZ |
08DARESSALAAM413 | TANZANIA: NO EVIDENCE OF FORCED OR CHILD LABOR IN THE [...] (U) Post has neither record nor evidence of the use of child labor or forced labor in the production of goods in Tanzania. 2. (SBU) According to ILO and ILO-IPEC officials in Dar es Salaam, quantifiable evidence of child or forced labor in the production of goods in Tanzania is difficult to [...] | 2008-07-08 03:33:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB ETRD SOCI TZ |
08DARESSALAAM423 | DEMARCHE ON MERCURY ISSUES: TANZANIA TO HOLD [...] (SBU) Eric Mugurusi, Tanzania's Director for the Department of Environment in the Vice President's Office, told EconOffs July 1 that Tanzania has not yet decided which type of global framework it favors to address problems with mercury contamination. Mugurusi confirmed that the GOT currently [...] | 2008-07-09 16:09:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAGR ETRD SENV TZ |
08DARESSALAAM472 | TANZANIA: FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION ON MAJOR ISSUES AT [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. Post received the following Diplomatic Note CMB 291/466/01 from the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania (GOT) on July 21 in response to Ref B demarche requesting GOT support for the United States candidates for seats on the Universal [...] | 2008-07-29 16:40:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO TZ |
08DARESSALAAM650 | AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - TANZANIA [...] This cable is in response to reftel. 2. Country: Tanzania Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Tanzania's population increased to approximately 40.3 million in 2007. 2007 Gross National Income (GNI) was $16.2 billion and GNI per capita was $400. Over the past tw [...] | 2008-10-09 06:41:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON PGOV PREL ELAB PTER TZ |
08DHAKA1001 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADVISOR SEES THE POLITICAL CLOUDS [...] (C) During a September 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Local Government Advisor Anwarul Iqbal was upbeat about the local government strengthening reform process and outlined the upcoming scenarios for dialogues with the parties and potential election schedules. Advisor Iqbal, who also overse [...] | 2008-09-23 02:22:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ELAB ETRD KDEM BG |
08DHAKA1006 | GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH EASES BAN ON TRADE UNION [...] (U) The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) recently announced a partial relaxation of the ban on trade union activities in place under the State of Emergency since January 2007. The new measures allow union activities, but limit the size of gatherings and require advance permission in certain cas [...] | 2008-09-23 10:39:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD SOCI PGOV KWMN BG |
08DHAKA1061 | AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK Q BANGLADESH [...] 1. A new outbreak of Highly-Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in poultry occurred in Bangladesh September 24. HPAI was first officially reported in Bangladesh in March 2007. Since that time, outbreaks of HPAI (H5) in poultry have been reported or confirmed on 288 farms. One human HPAI case [...] | 2008-10-08 13:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR ECON ETRD IN WTO CASC BG |
08DHAKA1070 | BANGLADESH PARTIALLY INSULATED FROM GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] (SBU) Despite a sharp drop in local stock markets on October 12, Bangladesh's economy is relatively insulated -- for now -- from the effects of the global financial crisis, according to local economists and bankers. Should a global recession last for an extended period, however, Bangladesh co [...] | 2008-10-14 12:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAID EAGR PGOV BG |
08DHAKA1089 | FOOD ADVISER ASKS FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE FOR FOOD STORAGE [...] (SBU) Bangladesh Food, Disaster Management and Health Adviser A.M.M. Shawkat Ali believes the Caretaker Government can be proud of its achievements in the food arena. In a meeting with the Ambassador, he highlighted food security, including food production, storage, pricing and consumption. A [...] | 2008-10-19 09:26:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BG |
08DHAKA1255 | ZFR - CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-07 10:11:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PTER SENV EAID OREP OVIP |
08DHAKA1256 | CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE, [...] (SBU) A Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain emphasized the need for Bangladesh to remain on the path to free, free and credible elections. During a brief December 2-3 visit, the bipartisan delegation also highlighted the importance of political parties working together after [...] | 2008-12-07 10:11:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PTER SENV EAID OREP OVIP |
08DHAKA1276 | PROMPT RESPONSE TO LATEST AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK [...] An avian influenza outbreak at a poultry farm occurred in Rangpur District in northwestern Bangladesh November 28. Government of Bangladesh (GOB) authorities responded quickly, ordering birds culled within hours of the report and completing containment efforts within three days. The GOB repo [...] | 2008-12-10 10:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR ECON ETRD CASC BG |
08DHAKA131 | AVIAN INFLUENZA SITREP - BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of January, avian influenza outbreaks among poultry in Bangladesh have spread to an additional 9 districts, for a new total of 29 districts affected (out of 64). No cases of human infection have been reported, and an active surveillance system of 12 hospital [...] | 2008-01-29 10:05:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR ECON ETRD IN WTO CASC BG |
08DHAKA1340 | BANGLADESH NOTIFIED OF AMENDED LACEY ACT [...] Econoff delivered reftel demarche December 4 to Masudur Rahman, Director of the Americas Wing at the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who said he would alert the appropriate Bangladesh authorities. MORIARTY [...] | 2008-12-23 11:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO BG |
08DHAKA183 | BIRD FLU IN MORRELGANJ - OUTBREAK MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-10 10:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR PGOV PREL ECON ETRD WTO TBIO CASC AMED IN |
08DHAKA193 | BIRD FLU IN MORRELGANJ - OUTBREAK MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An interagency assessment team (IAT) from State, DOD, and USAID has been in southern Bangladesh's Khulna and Barisal Divisions conducting an assessment of the Cyclone Sidr affected area in support of USG rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts. The IAT has been tasked to repor [...] | 2008-02-12 08:12:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR PGOV PREL ECON ETRD WTO TBIO CASC AMED IN |
08DHAKA213 | SCA PDAS CAMP HIGHLIGHTS ROADMAP DURING BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary: During a February 3 - 4 visit to Dhaka, SCA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Camp emphasized the enduring nature of the U.S.-Bangladesh relationship and reiterated the importance of the Caretaker Government's adherence to the Electoral Roadmap. In meetings with the Ch [...] | 2008-02-14 12:20:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON ELAB EFIN BG |
08DHAKA224 | LABOR UPDATE AND INTERIM GSP DEMARCHE DELIVERY [...] (U) On February 5, CDA a.i. Geeta Pasi delivered a speech at an award event organized by the US Cotton Council. In the speech, CDA emphasized key labor rights themes. (NOTE: full text of the speech is available on Post,s public website: http://dhaka.usembassy.gov END NOTE) Acknowledging the [...] | 2008-02-19 10:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON ETRD PHUM PREL EFIS EIND EAID SOCI |
08DHAKA266 | 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: EMBASSY BANGLADESH INPUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) does not effectively enforce intellectual property rights (IPR) protections. Piracy of optical disks, software and books is rampant in Bangladesh. The GOB is currently focused on higher prioritized projects, including ensuring a transition to a [...] | 2008-02-28 09:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD BG |
08DHAKA288 | BANGLADESH SEEKS SUPPORT FOR WIPO DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (SBU) Bangladesh requests U.S. support for the candidature of Dr. Taufiq Ali for the position of Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). 2. (U) At the upcoming 83-Member Coordination Committee of WIPO in Geneva from May 12-14 2008, Bangladesh will nominate D [...] | 2008-03-04 04:01:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON POL ETRD PREL KIPR BG |
08DHAKA407 | BANGLADESH TO BUY BOEINGS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Biman Bangladesh Airlines March 15 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Boeing to purchase eight wide-body aircraft, representing a total value of $1.26 billion. The purchase involves four 777 aircraft to be delivered in 2013 and four 787 aircraft for delivery in 2017, [...] | 2008-04-07 02:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD BEXP BG |
08DHAKA468 | BANGLADESH'S FOREIGN SECRETARY RAISES TRADE AND [...] (SBU) During Ambassador Moriarty's introductory call on 4/24, Foreign Secretary Mohammad Touhid Hossain raised a number of trade and development issues including the Millenium Challenge Account and GSP. The Ambassador noted that Bangladesh was receiving a lot of attention among senior official [...] | 2008-04-24 11:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD PGOV PINR PREL BG |
08DHAKA474 | BOEING AND BIMAN SIGN SINGLE LARGEST CAPITAL GOODS [...] SUMMARY: Boeing and Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Biman) April 22 signed a Definitive Agreement on a purchase by Biman of eight new widebody aircraft, with purchase rights on eight additional aircraft of the same models. The value of the sale including purchase rights is $2.1 billion, making th [...] | 2008-04-27 00:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EAIR ETRD BG |
08DHAKA477 | BANGLADESH CHIEF ADVISER WRITES TO WHITE HOUSE [...] (U) During his introductory call on the Foreign Secretary (REF A),the Ambassador was presented with a letter from Bangladesh,s Chief Adviser Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed to POTUS requesting support for Bangladesh,s candidate for WIPO Director General. This is the latest move in an unusually aggressi [...] | 2008-04-27 10:15:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON POL ETRD PREL KIPR BG |
08DHAKA485 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent natural disasters that strained the country's food supply have exacerbated in Bangladesh the effects of high food and commodity prices worldwide. High prices and the loss of some domestic food supplies and livelihoods threaten the food security of Bangladesh's desperatel [...] | 2008-04-30 02:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BG |
08DHAKA491 | FOREIGN ADVISER EXPLAINS CTG'S VISION DURING [...] (C) As it prepares for elections by the end of 2008, the Caretaker Government is focused on ensuring the continuity of the reforms it initiated after coming to office in January 2007, according to Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Chowdhury. He noted that a key component of its strategy for achieving [...] | 2008-05-01 10:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PINS EAID ELAB ETRD BG |
08DHAKA512 | BANGLADESH - USTR DELEGATION FINDS SOME PROGRESS ON LABOR [...] (SBU) An interagency delegation led by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) found some progress on labor issues in Bangladesh during a recent visit but noted areas where further improvements are needed, particularly in the Ready-Made-Garment (RMG) sector operating outside Banglade [...] | 2008-05-07 10:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ETRD KWMN SMIG KFRD BG |
08DHAKA551 | BANGLADESH ECONOMY LOOKING UP? [...] (SBU) Recent upsurges in Bangladesh's export earnings, remittances and Government of Bangladesh (GOB) revenues point to an economic rebound in the last half of the country's fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30. This is good news after the shocks of the first half of the year, includ [...] | 2008-05-22 11:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PGOV PINR BG |
08DHAKA618 | BANGLADESH SHRIMP SECTOR - CHILD LABOR PRESENT BUT NOT [...] (SBU) Recent Embassy visits to shrimp processing factories in southwestern and southeastern Bangladesh revealed cases of child labor in a handful of factories. Econoff and Econ Specialist visited nine shrimp processing factories in Bangladesh's Khulna region, four in Cox's Bazaar, and five in [...] | 2008-06-09 09:17:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAGR ETRD SOCI PGOV KWMN BG |
08DHAKA643 | AMBASSADOR MEETS AGRICULTURE ADVISER [...] (SBU) On May 29, 2008, Ambassador Moriarty and Dr. C.S. Karim, Adviser for the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture discussed priorities for the reconstruction of the cyclone-affected area and the problem of child labor at commercial processing facilities. Advisor Karim also expressed an interest [...] | 2008-06-15 10:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BG |
08DHAKA645 | DESPITE SHORT TENURES, CARETAKER GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Two top officials of the Caretaker Government in separate meetings with the Ambassador on June 10 outlined ambitious agendas to improve the quality of education, promote industry and fix Bangladesh's moribund national air carrier. Although they emphatically stated they would be gone from [...] | 2008-06-16 10:30:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAIR EIND ETRD SCUL BG |
08DHAKA745 | BANGLADESH: CHILD/FORCED LABOR IN GOODS PRODUCTION - TVPRA [...] (U) As a result of poverty and population density in Bangladesh, child labor exists throughout the country. Economic necessity requires millions of children to work for their survival and that of their families. The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) has limited capacity to enforce its labor laws [...] | 2008-07-14 03:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAGR ETRD SOCI PGOV BG |
08DHAKA797 | GSP PETITION: BANGLADESH CONCERNED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 12:07:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD PHUM PREL BG |
08DHAKA833 | THE BANGLADESH PARADOX AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: SOME GOOD [...] The USG is contributing to the development of Bangladesh and finds many outstanding, willing partners. On a recent trip to CoxQs Bazaar and Teknaf in south eastern Bangladesh, the Ambassador and other Embassy officers observed several USAID projects which are helping to modernize energy use, p [...] | 2008-08-05 09:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB EAGR ETRD SOCI PGOV BG |
08DHAKA980 | WORKER UNREST IN BANGLADESH'S GARMENT SECTOR DURING [...] (SBU) Before and during the fasting month of Ramadan, workers in Bangladesh's highly-profitable apparel sector have staged demonstrations, agitating for wage increases to ease the hardship of high food prices, which traditionally rise around the time of Ramadan. Business leaders have responded [...] | 2008-09-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD SOCI PGOV KWMN KTEX BG |
08DILI128 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES ON TIMOR-LESTE [...] Summary. While an estimated two-thirds of Timor-Leste's population is food insecure or vulnerable to food insecurity, the worldwide increase in food and commodity prices has not yet led to social or political unrest in Timor-Leste. The increase in the price of food in the first quarter of 20 [...] | 2008-05-02 09:35:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON TT |
08DILI134 | DEMARCHE TO TIMOR-LESTE ON IRAN SANCTIONS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 01:24:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR TT |
08DILI41 | TIMOR-LESTE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] Summary. Child labor in Timor-Leste is pervasive but difficult to quantify. Hard data is largely unavailable. All stakeholders agree that it is a problem, but the GOTL, preoccupied with the fundamental tasks of preserving public order, has not yet had sufficient means, capacity, or stabilit [...] | 2008-02-12 04:33:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI TT |
08DJIBOUTI1039 | DJIBOUTI: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: Child labor in Djibouti is largely limited to informal sector activities, including street vending, work in family-owned businesses, and begging. In rural areas, children are often involved in caring for their families' livestock. Agriculture in Djibouti is largely limited to nomadic [...] | 2008-12-28 12:52:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI DJ |
08DJIBOUTI239 | DJIBOUTI'S INPUT FOR 2008 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA [...] SUMMARY: Djibouti's market-based, open economy continues to move in the right direction, with an estimated 5 percent growth rate for 2007. Djibouti offers substantial incentives to private sector investors, and has benefited from increasing foreign direct investment. The government of Djibou [...] | 2008-03-13 13:53:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV DJ |
08DJIBOUTI425 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES/DJIBOUTI [...] (U) SUMMARY. Djibouti imports virtually all of its food. It has long grappled with chronic drought and food insecurity, and is fighting extreme poverty rates of over 40 percent. In this context, recent rising food and commodity prices have had a catastrophic impact. The GODJ has developed a [...] | 2008-04-30 13:10:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PREL PGOV DJ |
08DJIBOUTI618 | DP WORLD EXPLAINS DJIBOUTI PORT TARIFF INCREASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dubai Ports World (DPW) recently announced tariff increases at the Port of Djibouti. Although transshipment traffic has been growing rapidly, approximately 80% of the Port of Djibouti's business is still in supplying landlocked Ethiopia. While the new prices will apply to all po [...] | 2008-07-24 13:40:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ETRD EWWT ET DJ |
08DJIBOUTI853 | DJIBOUTI - CABINET DIRECTOR DISCUSSES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] On October 13, the USAID Representative and the USAID FSN Program Development Specialist met with the Director of the Presidential Cabinet, Mr. Abdi Achkir, and his staff to discuss USAID food aid donations to Djibouti. The USAID Representative explained that 2,300 metric tons of vegetable oil [...] | 2008-10-30 06:48:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV DJ |
08DJIBOUTI89 | DJIBOUTI: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] SUMMARY: Foreign direct investment in Djibouti in 2007 is five times as large as it was in 2003. Djibouti's economy is service-based, with the country's seaport accounting for the bulk of economic activity. Almost all food and many other goods are imported from Ethiopia, the Arabian Gulf, or [...] | 2008-01-31 06:18:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV |
08DJIBOUTI893 | DJIBOUTI GETS READY FOR JAN 1 VAT TAX [...] (U) SUMMARY. After several years of discussion, the GODJ will implement a 7% value added tax (VAT) beginning in January 2009. During the first implementation phase, only Djibouti's largest companies--those with an annual turnover of almost half a million dollars--will be required to charge VAT [...] | 2008-11-16 14:07:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD ODIP DJ |
08DOHA254 | MFA OFFICIAL SAYS QATAR WILL IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1803 [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief and Econoff delivered Ref A and Ref B demarches April 2 to Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Sowaidi, Acting Director of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Noting that the international community recognizes the risks of doing business with Iran, Econoff emphasized that [...] | 2008-04-03 05:31:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL PGOV PARM KNNP MNUC |
08DOHA400 | QATAR-CUBA: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] In response to reftel request, Post provides the following information on Qatar's relations with Cuba. ------------------------------ Investment and Bilateral Trade ------------------------------ 2. In April, state-owned real estate company Qatari Diar signed a USD 70 million deal with [...] | 2008-05-22 13:38:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ETTC PREL CU QA |
08DOHA526 | QATAR ACCEPTS OIE GUIDELINES FOR U.S. BEEF, [...] Qatar's National Food Safety Committee decided on April 14, 2008 to harmonize its regulations on the import of beef with World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) standards. Due to internal GOQ discussions, Post had been unable to confirm the formal adoption of these guidelines by the GOQ bef [...] | 2008-07-27 13:17:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD QA |
08DOHA611 | STUNNING ECONOMIC GROWTH IN QATAR; LITTLE TRICKLES DOWN [...] The Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) recently released data on Qatar's economic performance in 2007: -- The Oil and Gas Sector contributed 56% of GDP at USD 40.1 billion, a 23.7 percent increase from 2006. -- The 44 percent of the economy classified as non-oil and gas contributed USD 32. 1 [...] | 2008-08-26 05:27:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EFIN ETRD QA |
08DOHA650 | NEW TRADE MINISTER WELCOMES BILATERAL INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) During an introductory office call with Ambassador September 10, the new Minister of Business and Trade Sheikh Fahad Bin Jassim Al Thani (see reftel on the July 1 Ministry/Minister changes) said he is excited about the opportunity to lead the new Ministry and take a fresh look at Qatar's [...] | 2008-09-10 13:07:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECIN ETRD INRB QA |
08DOHA778 | QATAR LIKELY TO OPPOSE LIFTING CONSULAR [...] (SBU) Econoff met October 22 with Ahmed Ahen, Director of the Trade Organizations Department at the Ministry of Business and Trade to discuss reftel inquiry on consular transaction requirements. Ahen advised that GCC members recently discussed the issue but each member has its own policy. Ba [...] | 2008-11-04 05:40:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD USTR QA |
08DUBAI100 | DUBAI ESTH UPDATE: COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FREE [...] (SBU) Summary: Amman ESTH Hub officer and PolEconoff held January 30-31 ESTH related meetings in Dubai. Meetings with Nakheel, the developer of high profile Palms and World island projects, highlighted their pioneering aspects as they reclaim additional coastal land. While Nakheel is planning [...] | 2008-03-17 12:44:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD EAID PGOV AE |
08DUBAI101 | WHO'S GOT THE JUICE? -- ELECTRICITY AND WATER LIMITATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Dubai's aggressive 11% per annum planned real GDP growth targets through 2015 are based on the assumption that sufficient power and water will be available for the massive development now underway. The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is currently operating at close t [...] | 2008-03-18 08:00:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET KNNP ECON EINV SENV ETRD PGOV AE IR |
08DUBAI148 | IRANIAN TRADE AND TRAVEL TO UAE INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT [...] (C) Summary. During an April 6 visit by Steven Bondy, EEB's Director of Terrorism Finance and Economic Sanctions Policy, Hamad Buamim, Director General of the Dubai Chamber (DC),formerly known as the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, DC Advisor Abdullah Sharafi and JAFZA (the free zone s [...] | 2008-04-16 07:03:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL ETRD PGOV AE IR |
08DUBAI166 | RAS AL KHAIMAH, DUBAI "WANNABE"? [...] (C) Summary. Unabashedly stating Ras al Khaimah (RAK) plans to become the UAE's "second Dubai" Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Naqbi, Director General of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said the small emirate (roughly 250,000 people) has big plans for its future. Under the forward-leaning and eclec [...] | 2008-04-27 10:57:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD BTIO PGOV ENRG AE |
08DUBAI167 | HOLY IHOTTZ, BATMAN OUTLINES UNLV AND OTHER PLANS FOR HOTEL [...] (C) Summary. In an ambitious bid to meet the region's swiftly growing hospitality training and infrastructure business needs, the Emirate of Ras al Khaimah (RAK) and US development firm Argentum, led by CEO Bobby Batman (also known as Bobby Batmanghelidj),is developing The International Hos [...] | 2008-04-27 11:33:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD SCUL PGOV AE |
08DUBAI227 | CODEL GUTIERREZ ENGAGES DUBAI ENTITIES ON SOVEREIGN WEALTH [...] (U) Summary: UAE Government officials and senior business executives told visiting members of Codel Gutierrez May 28-29 that investments from Dubai-owned companies did not represent a threat to the national security of the United States. The UAE-based officials voiced their concerns that incre [...] | 2008-06-11 13:03:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD BTIO PGOV AE |
08DUBAI229 | CONTINUING POWER PROBLEMS IN RAK [...] (SBU) Summary. The power problems plaguing the ambitious northern emirate of Ras al Khaimah (previously reported ref A) continue to escalate. According to local press reports, the newly completed up-scale Safeer Mall and "dozens of recently finished buildings" have been unable to open due to [...] | 2008-06-15 11:03:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD BTIO PGOV ENRG AE |
08DUBAI249 | SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION DISCUSSES REGIONAL TRENDS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: A Department of Transportation delegation led by Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters visited Dubai May 29 - June 1 to learn about the emirate's rapidly-expanding transportation infrastructure, as well as how this infrastructure will be integrated into the plans for regional [...] | 2008-06-30 12:09:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD ELTN BTIO PGOV SENV AE |
08DUBAI271 | DUBAI MEGA-PROJECTS PART 1: INCREASING THE COASTLINE TEN-FOLD [...] (U) Summary. In support of Dubai's 2015 Strategic Plan, Dubai's parastatal conglomerates and their many subsidiaries (as well as a bevy of private developers)have commenced a staggering number of mega-projects (according to Middle East Economic Digest, the value of planned and underway projects wi [...] | 2008-07-10 14:20:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV AE |
08DUBAI272 | DUBAI MEGA-PROJECTS PART 2: THE OTHER 90% OF SHEIKH MOHAMMED'S VISION [...] (U) Summary. Taking as gospel Dubai Ruler Sh. Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum's oft quoted line, "what you see is only 10 percent of my vision", Dubai's aggressive 2015 Strategic Plan targets 11% per annum planned real GDP growth with a focus on the six key sectors in which Dubai views itself as hav [...] | 2008-07-10 14:32:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV AE |
08DUBAI286 | DUBAI INDUSTRIAL CITY: DEVELOPING THE MANUFACTURING AND [...] (U) Summary: A massive and ambitious Dubai Industrial City (DIC) aims to expand an oft-forgotten (and growing) source of Dubai's GDP: manufacturing and industry. Targeting the "transport and logistic services" and "trade and storage" building blocks of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid's 2015 Strateg [...] | 2008-07-21 08:56:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD BTIO PGOV ENRG AE |
08DUBAI287 | DUBAI REAL ESTATE MARKET, PART ONE: IMPROVING LEGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: With the opening of land sales to non-nationals through freehold sales in 2002 (refs A, B and C),the Dubai construction and real estate markets began an unprecedented boom phase. By 2006, the real estate and construction sectors comprised roughly 16 percent of total Dubai GDP. [...] | 2008-07-21 11:41:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD PGOV AE |
08DUBAI330 | 202KG HEROIN SEIZED IN DRUG BUST [...] (U) During a joint Sharjah/Dubai police drug raid dubbed "Operation 888" (the raid occurred on August 8, 2008),officers seized 202 kilograms of heroin (worth $11 million) and arrested 19 Afghans in the what the media describes as the region's largest drug bust to date. One of the arrested susp [...] | 2008-08-19 06:37:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD KCRM SNAR AE |
08DUBAI347 | READOUT OF RECENT JAPAN-IRAN BILATERAL MEETINGS [...] (S/NF) Summary. During an August 25 meeting with IRPO Director and Poloffs, Japanese MFA Iran Desk Officer Junichi Sumi gave an informal readout of the most recent encounters between Japanese and Iranian officials, including regularly scheduled meetings at the Vice Ministerial and Director Gen [...] | 2008-09-01 14:04:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET | PGOV ETRD ETTC IR JA |
08DUBAI358 | ONGOING CORRUPTION CRACKDOWN IN DUBAI FINANCIAL AND REAL [...] (S) Summary and Comment. Following the public disclosure of a large real estate/financial scandal involving Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB, in which the Dubai Government maintains a 35% stake) and private property developer Deyaar in April, Minister of State for Finance Dr. Mohammed Khalfan bin Kharb [...] | 2008-09-08 08:56:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD KCRM AE |
08DUBAI391 | DUBAI'S CITYSCAPE 2008 - (SUR)REAL ESTATE AMID FINANCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Even as world financial markets tumbled and investor fears over an economic slide grew, bold (and costly) new projects for expanding the "Dubai dream" to even greater heights were unveiled at the seventh annual "Cityscape Dubai" exhibition October 6-9, the commercial to commercial [...] | 2008-10-23 08:53:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PINV ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD AE |
08DUBAI462 | DUBAI MEGAPORTS INITIATIVE EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION STILL [...] (C) Summary: Progress in implementing the U.S. Department of Energy Megaports Initiative at Jebel Ali is stalled because U.S. equipment (SAIC-made scanners) that Dubai Customs planned to buy does not meet U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) / National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) requir [...] | 2008-12-11 15:44:00 | Consulate Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD ETTC KNNP AE |
08DUBLIN192 | SCENESETTER FOR IRISH PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS TO [...] (C) Prime Minister (Taoiseach, TEE-SHUCK) Bertie Ahern's address to a Joint Session of Congress on April 30 will be framed by the Northern Ireland peace process, Irish economic growth (the "Celtic Tiger"),Ireland's view of its place in the world, and Ahern's announcement that he will step dow [...] | 2008-04-11 14:38:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR MOPPS MARR EI |
08DUBLIN219 | Irish Farmers Protest Government's WTO Stance [...] Irish farmers took part in a peaceful demonstration in Dublin in protest against the current EU stance at WTO negotiations on April 17. The protest took place as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso addressed a forum discussing the future of the EU. Reportedly 10,000 farmers fro [...] | 2008-04-28 06:34:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EU EI |
08DUBLIN240 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - IRELAND [...] Summary: Despite being a surplus producer of meat and livestock products, Irish consumers have in recent months seen a sharp and sudden increase in food prices especially in two commodities - milk and bread. While there has been media attention given to the rise in prices, consumers seem to [...] | 2008-05-02 13:15:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EU EI |
08DUBLIN271 | IRELAND: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD [...] (U) There is no record of forced labor used in the production of goods in Ireland. One non-governmental organization (NGO) reported several cases of forced labor in the service industry and in agricultural production. However, discussions with Ireland's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Emp [...] | 2008-05-16 10:12:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EI |
08DUBLIN289 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL LEAHY TO IRELAND [...] (U) CODEL Leahy will arrive against a backdrop of a new Irish Government led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen, the continuing successful peace process in Northern Ireland, a slowing, but still world-class economic growth -- the "Celtic Tiger" -- and an Ireland that is increasingly engaged in for [...] | 2008-05-21 15:56:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR MOPPS MARR EI |
08DUBLIN339 | IRISH VIEWS ON FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS [...] ECONOFF delivered reftel demarche on June 9, 2008 to Richard Howell, Head of the Research, Food, and Codex Coordination Division of the Department of Agriculture. Howell said that the Irish government was still considering its position regarding the chairpersonship. He said that there has bee [...] | 2008-06-11 11:31:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO EI |
08DUBLIN340 | IRISH VIEWS ON FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS [...] (C) Ref A corrected to include classifier. 2. (C) ECONOFF delivered reftel demarche on June 9, 2008 to Richard Howell, Head of the Research, Food, and Codex Coordination Division of the Department of Agriculture. Howell said that the Irish government was still considering its position reg [...] | 2008-06-11 12:14:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO EI |
08DUBLIN361 | IRELAND WILL NOT VETO WTO DEAL DESPITE PROMISE TO [...] (C) Summary: On June 3, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he was "prepared" to veto a WTO deal that is "unacceptable" to Ireland (Ref B). The Irish Farmers Association (IFA),upset with the EU's handling of the WTO negotiations (Ref C),had put pressure on Cowen to promise a veto. On the [...] | 2008-06-17 15:53:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PREL PGOV EI |
08DUBLIN362 | IRISH AGRICULTURE, THE DOHA ROUND, AND BIOTECH [...] (C) Summary: Econoffs spoke recently with senior Irish trade and agriculture officials regarding the points in Refs B and C. While they agreed that a WTO deal is even more important now with recent food price concerns, both were concerned about the prospect of an imminent conclusion to the Do [...] | 2008-06-17 15:58:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON EU EI |
08DUBLIN389 | BRIAN COWEN: NO SOLUTION TO THE LISBON CRISIS BUT [...] (C) During the Ambassador's meeting with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on June 26, 2008 (their first formal meeting since Cowen assumed his new position as Taoiseach),Cowen affirmed continued Irish support for U.S. activities in Shannon and expanded CBP pre-clearance operations. Cowen ur [...] | 2008-06-27 14:40:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ENRG ETRD EUN PGOV PREL EINV |
08DUBLIN409 | IRELAND'S RESPONSE TO UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION ISSUES [...] (U) On July 1, 2008 POLOFF delivered demarche (reftel) to Ann Monaghan, Higher Executive Officer of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Monaghan said that Ireland has not committed its support to any candidate for a seat on the Universal Postal Union Council of Ad [...] | 2008-07-09 12:28:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO EI |
08DUBLIN431 | IRISH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ASSESSES LISBON TREATY [...] (C) On July 15, 2008 Deputy Prime Minister (Tanaiste) and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan told the Ambassador that it was "not possible" for the Irish Government to be ready by mid-October to propose a way forward to the European Council following the unexpected de [...] | 2008-07-22 14:52:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD EUN PINR EI |
08DUBLIN545 | IRELAND'S SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP DEAL'S GOOD ENOUGH -- [...] (C) Summary: On September 18 the parties to the Social Partnership talks (principally business groups and trade unions) agreed on a provisional deal that, among other things, would freeze public sector wages for the next 11 months. A leading business representative told us this is the best de [...] | 2008-10-01 12:25:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV EI |
08DUBLIN57 | IRELAND WILL FOLLOW EU ON IMPORT BAN OF BURMESE [...] (C) Ireland shares the USG's concerns regarding Burma and will implement the European Council decision to restrict investment and trade in the mining and logging sectors with Burma once the EU Commission finalizes the regulations for implementation, according to Isolde Moylan, Director, Asia a [...] | 2008-01-31 12:33:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PHUM BM EI |
08DUBLIN609 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL LEAHY TO IRELAND [...] (U) Embassy Dublin welcomes Senator Leahy to Ireland. The Senator will arrive against a backdrop of an Irish Government led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen that is facing economic woes and uncertain relations with the European Union following its rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum i [...] | 2008-11-06 18:38:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR SENV MOPPS MARR |
08DUBLIN616 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (U) Welcome to Ireland. We look forward to your visit. You will arrive against a backdrop of an Irish Government led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen that is facing economic woes and uncertain relations with the European Union following its rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum in June [...] | 2008-11-12 16:53:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR SENV MOPPS MARR |
08DUBLIN653 | THE IRISH ECONOMY -- FEW OPTIONS LEFT [...] (C) Summary: Irish government officials told Emboffs that in the current economic environment it is "almost impossible" to come up with a plan to right the Irish economy. The government will not issue a mini-budget early in 2009 but it looks likely that there will be "adjustments" to the budge [...] | 2008-12-03 09:27:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL EI |
08DUBLIN662 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL DODD TO IRELAND [...] (U) Embassy Dublin welcomes Senator Dodd to Ireland. The Senator will arrive against a backdrop of an Irish Government led by Prime Minister Brian Cowen that is facing economic woes, uncertain relations with the European Union following its rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum in J [...] | 2008-12-07 10:44:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV EAIR SENV MOPPS MARR |
08DUBLIN671 | Dioxins in Irish Meat Sparks Recall [...] Summary. The Irish agriculture industry has been thrown into a pre-Christmas crisis with the discovery of dioxins in pork, followed by the discovery of dioxins, albeit at significantly lower levels, in beef. Feedstuffs from a single feed-mill were the source of the dioxin and the Irish author [...] | 2008-12-10 13:50:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EU EI |
08DUSHANBE1136 | TAJIKISTAN - BOEINGS ALL OVER, COMPLICATION SOARS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Boeing seems set to significantly expand its presence in Tajikistan over the next few months. But we expect turbulence on the route to improved airline services here, as the two airlines in quest [...] | 2008-09-11 05:36:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV EAIR TI |
08DUSHANBE120 | FY07 BFIF REPORTING FROM DUSHANBE [...] Per reftel A, Embassy Dushanbe submits the following report regarding participation in the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) program in FY 2007. Post again thanks the Economic Bureau for its support for these two successful programs. 2. Dushanbe - Regional Transportation Infrast [...] | 2008-01-18 10:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN BEXP BTIO ECON EINV ETRD ADPM TI |
08DUSHANBE1501 | IMF Says Tajik Economic Outlook Rosy, Others Doubtful. [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the world financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made a number of positive projections about Tajikistan's economy over the coming year, including GDP growth of 5-6%, a drop in inflation, and continued record high remittance levels. The IMF predicts t [...] | 2008-12-11 11:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV TI |
08DUSHANBE1502 | IMF Says Tajik Economic Outlook Rosy; Others Doubtful [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the world financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made a number of positive projections about Tajikistan's economy over the coming year, including GDP growth of 5-6%, a drop in inflation, and continued record high remittance levels. The IMF predicts t [...] | 2008-12-12 03:06:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV TI |
08DUSHANBE1518 | Crucial Remittances to Tajikistan Will Slow; But How Much? [...] (SBU) Summary: Remittances from relatives working abroad, particularly in Russia, form a crucial source of income for many families in Tajikistan, which in turn helps maintain economic and political stability in this poor and historically fractious country. Many here are worried about whether [...] | 2008-12-16 12:04:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV ELAB TI |
08DUSHANBE1548 | Audits of Three Major Tajik Concerns May Not Reveal Much [...] (SBU) Summary: The international donor community in Tajikistan is eagerly awaiting the results of audits of three key institutions: the National Bank of Tajikistan, the state electrical company Barki Tojik, and the country's largest industrial concern, the Talco aluminum smelter. The audits we [...] | 2008-12-19 12:00:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV ELAB TI |
08DUSHANBE1554 | Report on Tajikistan's Ruby Industry [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Embassy staff met with Isojon Kurbanov, Deputy Head of the Mining Department in the Tajik Ministry of Energy and Industry to discuss reftel. According to Kurbanov, in Tajikistan state authorities control an [...] | 2008-12-22 09:20:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EMIN ECON PREL EFIN TI |
08DUSHANBE1582 | OPEN SKIES DEMARCHE AND AVIATION SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Minister of Transport viewed our offer to explore an Open Skies agreement as a chance to get more aid from the United States. He suggested Tajikistan would move slowly on Open Skies, seeking a bilateral agreement before considering a regional agreement, and would move slowly [...] | 2008-12-31 09:18:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV TI |
08DUSHANBE210 | Tajik Commercial Air Service Modernization - Baby Steps [...] (SBU) In the past six months Tajik Air, the state-owned national carrier, has acquired four Boeing aircraft, all on wet-lease. It's not quite the improvement that it seems. The first two aircraft acquired were 25-year old Boeing 737s. They are not allowed to land in Russia or the European Un [...] | 2008-02-07 12:10:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAIR TI |
08DUSHANBE228 | TIFA 2008 - TAJIKS WON'T PLAY, UNLESS IT'S THEIR [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Tajikistan threatened to not participate in the 2008 Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) conference, and in regional consultations with the EU Troika, unless one of these two meetings is held in Dushanbe. End Summary. 2. (C) In his first meeting w [...] | 2008-02-13 12:21:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD PGOV PREL TI |
08DUSHANBE269 | SOMON AIR - "PRIVATE" IN NAME ONLY. [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 6 EmbOff experienced the pleasure of flying Tajikistan's "first private airline," Somon Air, aboard its wet-leased Turkish Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800. Minor intercultural hiccups aside, the flight was normal, and an improvement on the standards of state-owned Ta [...] | 2008-02-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAIR TI |
08DUSHANBE375 | TAJIKISTAN - SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] SUMMARY: Post recommends that Tajikistan remain on the Special 301 Watch List. Tajikistan has taken some steps over the past year to improve protection of intellectual property, but much work remains to be done. End Summary. 2. Advances in the past year included: -- passage of a Law on [...] | 2008-03-06 03:13:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ETTC ECON ETRD PGOV EAID TI |
08DUSHANBE516 | TAJIKISTAN - BACK IN THE USSR AT TALCO [...] (U) Summary: TALCO, Tajikistan's state-owned aluminum company, which accounts for perhaps one third of the country's gross domestic product, faces a number of challenges. During a recent visit to the plant, EmbOffs observed that the Soviet-style company remains dependent on electricity at belo [...] | 2008-04-14 07:52:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD EINV ECON TI |
08DUSHANBE517 | Tajikistan: Economic Tour de Table [...] (U) Summary: Treasury Attache Tom Lanier's March 24-31 visit highlighted several challenges the country's financial institutions and large enterprises face. Meetings with government officials, international organizations, and business leaders showed the economy in poor shape, but not a total l [...] | 2008-04-14 07:53:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV TI |
08DUSHANBE550 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] The following responds to Ref A's request to provide a short summary of the impact of food and agricultural commodity price increases and to catalogue previous reporting on the subject. 2. Rising food prices are having a direct and detrimental impact on all of Embassy Dushanbe's central st [...] | 2008-04-22 13:30:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TI |
08DUSHANBE825 | TAJIKISTAN: DAS KROL'S INTRODUCTORY MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: Prior to the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement meetings in Dushanbe, DAS Krol, accompanied by Ambassador, had introductory meetings June 16 with Foreign Minister Zarifi, and with Presidential Advisors on Foreign Policy and Economics Rahmattuloyev and Davlatov. Krol discus [...] | 2008-06-18 04:39:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETRD EINV PREL PGOV PHUM TI |
08DUSHANBE829 | TAJIKISTAN'S HASAN ASADULLOZODA - MAN, MYTH, LEGEND [...] (SBU) Summary: Hasan Asadullozoda (formerly known as Sadulloev),the 40 year old brother-in-law of President Rahmon, is Tajikistan's top business figure, and is often called the "third most powerful" man in the country (after Rahmon and Dushanbe mayor Ubaidulloyev). He controls or has substanti [...] | 2008-06-23 04:48:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD EINV ECON TI |
08DUSHANBE895 | 2008 U.S.-CENTRAL ASIA TIFA COUNCIL MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The fourth meeting of the U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council, held June 17-18 in Dushanbe was marked by strong participation by the private sector and by Afghan observers. However, representatives from the TIFA members themselves failed to [...] | 2008-07-08 08:57:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD USTR ECON PREL AF KG KZ TI TX UZ |
08FREETOWN121 | FREETOWN DELIVERED MONTERREY CONSENSUS: BACKGROUND [...] On February 28, Ambassador Perry spoke with Sierra Leone Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura to convey information on the Monterrey consensus and the review process. She provided the Minister with a full text of the 2002 Monterrey consensus document and a copy of UNGA Resolution. Minister Bangura [...] | 2008-03-14 13:51:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ETRD PREL SL |
08FREETOWN184 | PRESIDENT KOROMA INTERCEDES WITH CONCESSIONS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: As reported in reftel A and B, Seaboard West Africa Ltd., an American-owned company operating the only flour mill in Sierra Leone, found itself in dire financial straits due to the volatility of the world commodities markets and price ceilings on flour. These negatively impacted t [...] | 2008-04-16 16:38:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR SL |
08FREETOWN196 | SIERRA LEONE'S LIMITED REACTION TO PRICE INCREASES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite soaring prices of commodities, Sierra Leone is stable relative to its sub-regional neighbors. Though frequently reported in the media and discussed on the streets, inflated prices of necessities like flour and rice thus far have been met with public willingness to make ends [...] | 2008-04-23 17:17:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL SL |
08FREETOWN204 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - SIERRA [...] Please see the following responses keyed to reftel A. Note that responses reflect currently available information on this situation, and that not all of the suggested questions posed in reftel A were answerable at this time or applicable to the Sierra Leone context. ------ DEMAND ------ [...] | 2008-04-30 15:06:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR EAID ETRD ECON SL |
08FREETOWN232 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR [...] (SBU) On May 15 Ambassador spoke with Sierra Leone's Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Vandi Minah to present the U.S. 60 day report on Iran Sanctions, per UNSC 1803. Ambassador stressed the need to ensure robust international implementation and highlight the continued IAEA reports of Iran's fai [...] | 2008-05-16 13:22:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR SL |
08FREETOWN256 | NOTIFYING SIERRA LEONE OF AGOA 2008 FORUM [...] (U) DCM met with Sierra Leone MFA Director General Umaru Wurie on May 8 to inform the Sierra Leone Government that the next AGOA Forum will occur in Washington July 14-16 and to encourage Sierra Leone's participation. On May 12, letters were sent to Minister of Trade and Industry Alimamy Korom [...] | 2008-06-02 13:36:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAID SL |
08FREETOWN257 | SIERRA LEONE: DELIVERED DEMARCHES ON FOOD [...] Per instructions refs A-C, Embassy Freetown delivered points to the Sierra Leone Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture to convey information on the President's Global Food Security Initiative and to seek their cooperation. Post also conveyed the importance of not imposing export rest [...] | 2008-06-02 13:51:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EAID SL |
08FREETOWN261 | SIERRA LEONE: MANDATORY REPORT ON FORCED LABOR AND [...] Forced and child labor are known to be problems in Sierra Leone, primarily for the provision of services and in diamond mining. Exploitation is also suspected in quarries, and the rubber, timber, and fishing industries. These particular industries are the subject of in-country research by an i [...] | 2008-06-03 11:40:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SL |
08FREETOWN294 | AGOA FORUM INVITATIONS DELIVERED [...] Per reftel, Embassy Freetown delivered invitations for the AGOA Forum to three Government of Sierra Leone ministers: Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Zainab Bangura; Minister of Trade and Industry Alimamy Koroma; and Minister of Finance David Carew. Post will report ba [...] | 2008-06-16 16:45:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD EAID OPDC SL |
08FREETOWN329 | SIERRA LEONE AGOA FORUM DELEGATION UPDATE [...] (U) Despite continued engagement with Government of Sierra Leone representatives, post is still awaiting confirmation on the composition of the AGOA Forum delegation. During July 10 meeting (septel),Minister of Finance informed Ambassador and Poloff that he thought Sierra Leone should have a d [...] | 2008-07-10 10:55:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAID SL |
08FREETOWN331 | SIERRA LEONE CONFIRMS AGOA FORUM DELEGATION [...] (U) Post confirmed on July 10 that the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) representatives at the AGOA Forum July 14-16 will be the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Mr. Vandi Minah),Trade and Industry (Mr. Mabinty Daramy),and Finance (Dr. Richard Konteh),as well as the Sierra Leone Ambass [...] | 2008-07-14 09:25:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV EFIN EAID SL |
08FREETOWN333 | SPOTLIGHT BACK ON THE ECONOMY WITH THE MINISTER OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Perry and Poloff met with Minister of Finance and International Development David Carew on July 10 to discuss the Government of Sierra Leone's (GoSL) economic and development agenda for the coming months. With the spotlight slowing dimming on the political realm in the [...] | 2008-07-14 09:27:00 | Embassy Freetown | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL SL |
08FREETOWN387 | SIERRA LEONE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT AGOA FORUM [...] Summary: Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) officials on July 31 expressed gratitude to the Ambassador for facilitating their participation in the recent AGOA Forum, and shared preliminary plans to capitalize on AGOA opportunities. Both the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperat [...] | 2008-08-05 08:38:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD SL |
08FREETOWN44 | SIERRA LEONE STRUGGLES WITH RISING PRICES [...] SUMMARY: Although news reports generally exaggerate the situation, tensions between bakers, millers, and flour and rice importers are coming to a head due to steadily rising prices. In the eye of the storm is Seaboard West Africa Ltd., a U.S.-owned company that imports wheat, bakes bread, an [...] | 2008-02-05 10:00:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON SL |
08FREETOWN549 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] (U) Ambassador delivered reftel points on November 24 to Minister of Foreign Affairs Zainab Bangura. Bangura expressed great interest in Sierra Leone's participation in the partnership, and would like further information on how her government can be involved, and at what level. She stated that [...] | 2008-11-24 15:28:00 | Embassy Freetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV SL |
08FUKUOKA14 | FUKUOKA GOVERNOR STRESSES THE IMPORTANCE OF FDI; NEED TO [...] (U) Econ Minister-Counselor Robert Cekuta met with Fukuoka Governor Wataru Aso during a March 4-5 visit to Fukuoka and Kitakyushu. The outspoken Fukuoka Governor, who also chairs the National Governors' Association of Japan, discussed how the Japanese perceptions of the U.S. as a superpower h [...] | 2008-03-13 08:21:00 | Consulate Fukuoka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV PREL JA |
08GABORONE1078 | Ambassador's Courtesy Call on Trade Minister [...] Ambassador Nolan paid a courtesy call on Botswana's Minister of Trade and Industry Neo Moroka November 28 at the Minister's Office. Moroka thanked the U.S. for providing development assistance to Botswana since independence, and noted that both he and many of his staff had benefitted from scho [...] | 2008-12-09 11:59:00 | Embassy Gaborone | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAID SCUL BC |
08GABORONE714 | TSVANGIRAI VISITS GABORONE AS FIRST STOP AFTER [...] (C) Summary: Zimbabwe MDC opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai visited Gaborone immediately after the SADC Summit, reportedly meeting with President Khama who had boycotted the weekend's Johannesburg Summit in protest over the Zimbabwe political impasse. The GOB has been cagey about the visit [...] | 2008-08-19 14:55:00 | Embassy Gaborone | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR SADC SOCI ETRD ZI BC SF |
08GABORONE958 | BOTSWANA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FINANCE [...] (U) SUMMARY. Ambassador Nolan paid a courtesy call on Botswana's Minister of Finance and Development Planning Baledzi Gaolathe on October 28. The Finance Minister thanked the Ambassador for U.S. development assistance programs and noted that although Botswana has reached middle income status [...] | 2008-11-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Gaborone | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID ENRG PREL KHIV BC |
08GABORONE961 | SADC COUNSELS "PATIENCE" ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) SUMMARY. SADC Executive Secretary Tomaz Salomao briefed diplomats October 31 on regional economic integration, violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Zimbabwe power-sharing negotiations. He advised that all three parties in Zimbabwe are happy with mediator Thabo Mbeki and [...] | 2008-11-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Gaborone | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ZI CO BC |
08GENEVA1032 | UNCTAD: Corporate Social Responsibility Workshop on [...] SUMMARY: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held a Workshop on the Policy Context for Responsible Investment on November 7, 2008, where the investment community and policy-makers, representing about 50 countries, discussed ways to collaborate on socially responsible investment. [...] | 2008-11-24 12:39:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON ETRD |
08GENEVA1043 | Organic Agriculture: International Task Force Facilitating [...] SUMMARY: The International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (ITF),which was a successful public-private partnership, held its final meeting on October 7, 2008, having completed its five-year project to develop a method for comparing different organic standard [...] | 2008-11-26 16:38:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON ETRD USDA USAID |
08GENEVA1051 | OCTOBER 8-9, 2008, WTO SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY (SPS) [...] Summary: The Forty-Second Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures was held October 8-9, 2008. The U.S. delegation was headed by Jane Doherty, (USTR),and included Christine Brown (Commerce),Mary Lisa Madell (APHIS),Daniella Taveau [...] | 2008-12-03 15:52:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD USTR WTRO |
08GENEVA1055 | MEETING WITH MONTENEGRO DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DJUROVIC TO [...] Summary: USTR Senior Director for WTO Accessions, Cecilia Klein, and USTR/Geneva representatives Bob Kasper and Nancy Omelko met Montenegro Deputy Prime Minister Gordana Djurovic and Montenegrin delegation on 24 November 2008. The bilateral talks focused on resolving remaining issues in the [...] | 2008-12-05 09:04:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV WTRO USTR MW |
08GENEVA1078 | December 2008 meeting of the Working Party for the WTO [...] (U) Summary. The sixth Working Party Meeting on Azerbaijan's Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO),held on December 11 in Geneva, was widely attended by other WTO Members and highlighted the renewed energy shown by Azerbaijan in a number of areas. Prior to the meeting, Azerbaijan [...] | 2008-12-15 16:21:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON WTRO USTR AZE |
08GENEVA1105 | December 17 Meeting of TNC [...] Summary. At a meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) on December 17, 2008 WTO Director General Lamy recognized with disappointment that it is not possible to conclude the Agriculture and NAMA modalities before the end of the year, but stressed the need to continue work in early 2009 [...] | 2008-12-19 16:05:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO USTR |
08GENEVA559 | WTO TRADE POLICY REVIEW OF SINGAPORE, JULY 14 AND 16, [...] SUMMARY: WTO Members conducted the Trade Policy Review of Singapore on July 14 and 16, 2008. Members expressed appreciation for Singapore's open trade regime and were generally in agreement that Singapore is a model actor in the WTO community. Members encouraged Singapore to bind its remain [...] | 2008-07-21 14:38:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO USTR |
08GENEVA932 | MEETING OF THE WTO COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT, [...] SUMMARY: WTO Members held a meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) on October 16, 2008, followed immediately by a Dedicated Session of the CTD on Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs). During the regular CTD meeting, the EC and Norway were again questioned on the implementation of [...] | 2008-11-06 16:35:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO USTR |
08GENEVA984 | UNCTAD - Trade and Development Board, 55th Session, [...] SUMMARY: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held the 55th Session of its Trade and Development Board (TDB),UNCTAD's governing body, in Geneva from September 15-26, 2008. IO DAS Gerry Anderson represented the US during the high-level segment of the TDB, September [...] | 2008-11-19 10:03:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD UNCTAD |
08GENEVA985 | November 2008 Trade Policy Review of Jordan [...] SUMMARY: WTO Members conducted the Trade Policy Review of Jordan on November 10 and 12, 2008. Jordan's Minister of Industry and Trade Al-Hadidi stressed the importance the country attaches for its first TPR and stated its top priority is to improve its business climate in order to unleash it [...] | 2008-11-19 12:22:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO USTR JO |
08GEORGETOWN390 | GUYANA DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MAJOR ISSUES AT [...] (U) Per reftel, Post delivered diplomatic note and demarche to Audrey Waddell, Director of America and Asias at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Waddell agreed to foward the dip note and demarche to the appropriate office. 2. (U) Post will report any substantive response from the Government [...] | 2008-07-09 21:35:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO |
08GEORGETOWN459 | GUYANA AND FORESTRY SECTOR AT LOGGERHEADS; BOURGEONING [...] (U) Summary: Guyana's forest-products sector, which with USAID support grew 56 percent from 2004 to 2006, will likely decline for the second consecutive year. In general, the private sector has worked to develop the forestry industry in a sustainable way, and large international wood companie [...] | 2008-08-06 21:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BTIO EAGR EAID ECON EIND EINV SENV ETRD |
08GEORGETOWN484 | GUYANA'S RESPONSE TO 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 21:47:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD KSUM |
08GEORGETOWN550 | JAGDEO HUFFS AND PUFFS, BUT WILL SIGN EU TRADE DEAL [...] (U) Summary: After weeks of sharply criticizing its provisions, President Jagdeo has begrudgingly agreed to sign onto the proposed CARICOM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA),citing the certain imposition of higher tariffs on Guyana's exports if he did not acquiesce. Despite his pledge to [...] | 2008-09-18 20:09:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BTIO EAGR EAID ECON EIND EINV SENV ETRD GY PREL |
08GRENADA119 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT AUGUST 17 - 23, 2008 [...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. Grenada Not Ready to sign EPA Grenada's Prime Minister, Tillman Thomas announced that Grenada needs more time to study [...] | 2008-08-26 20:53:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN KCRM SOCI GJ |
08GRENADA122 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT AUGUST 24 - 30, 2008 [...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. Chinese Donate Equipment and Supplies to RGPF The PRC signed an agreement with Grenada's Commissioner of Police James [...] | 2008-09-02 22:51:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EFIN KIPR ETRD CH XL |
08GRENADA138 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR OCTOBER 19 - 25, 2008 [...] Embassy Grenada's weekly report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. Begin GWAR text: a. Caribbean Financial Action Task Force visits Grenada According to the Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Tillman Thomas to [...] | 2008-10-30 17:56:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ETRD ENRG GJ XL |
08GRENADA141 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 1, [...] Embassy Grenada's weekly report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. Begin GWAR text: a. Alleged Plan for Benefits for Former Revolutionaries Local press reported that a coordinated effort is underway to promote the [...] | 2008-11-05 20:54:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB ETRD PREL GJ XL |
08GRENADA151 | GRENADA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] Embassy Grenada response to reftel request for the investment climate statement. 2. Begin text: The Government of Grenada (GOG) seeks to attract foreign direct investment and, with limited exceptions, encourages investors to enter in and operate enterprises in all fields of lawful econom [...] | 2008-12-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV GJ |
08GRENADA37 | GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 17 - 23, 2008 [...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. (U) Mitchell waits for CARICOM's input before deciding on ALBA Prime Minister Keith Mitchell announced that Gr [...] | 2008-02-28 21:53:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD PGOV GJ |
08GRENADA91 | GRENADA 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The Investment Climate Statement is contained in paragraph 2 below. 2. (U) Begin text: The Government of Grenada (GOG) seeks to attract foreign direct investment and encourages investors to enter in and operate enterprises in all fields of lawful economic activity. There is no minimum en [...] | 2008-07-03 19:11:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC GJ |
08GUADALAJARA31 | NOT MUCH NOISE ON NAFTA IN WESTERN MEXICO [...] Summary: The January 1, 2008 ending of the last remaining duties on agricultural products has so far not generated major protests or controversy in west-central Mexico. Agriculture Association leaders in Jalisco, one of Mexico's most important farming and ranching states, tend to view NAFTA [...] | 2008-01-18 22:09:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD PGOV MX |
08GUADALAJARA95 | HARVEST OF CHANGE: CORN, NAFTA, AND THE CAMPO IN WESTERN [...] Summary: The January 2008 full implementation of NAFTA's provisions on agricultural trade has proceeded smoothly in western Mexico's farm belt. Some observers had expected a strong negative reaction given the large percentage of the population still engaged in minimally productive subsistence f [...] | 2008-02-27 23:05:00 | Consulate Guadalajara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON MX |
08GUANGZHOU132 | Guangzhou IPR Update for Special 301 Review [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a few successes in intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement efforts over the last year, the overall climate for U.S. owners of intellectual property (IP) has not significantly improved. Moreover, law enforcement cooperation has noticeably deteriorated since the las [...] | 2008-03-02 23:40:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU146 | Product Safety Testing, Booming Business in South China [...] (SBU) Summary: Business is booming for product testing firms in south China. With heightened awareness of product safety risks among manufacturers and stricter enforcement by Chinese authorities, testing firms anticipate continued rapid growth and in some instances are literally working around [...] | 2008-03-10 08:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU148 | Shenzhen Heparin Maker Emphasizes Differences with [...] (U) Summary: Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co. - recently the focus of a Wall Street Journal article - clearly takes product safety very seriously and is anxious to reassure visitors about its quality assurance and supply control procedures. The only heparin producer in China to receive U.S [...] | 2008-03-11 08:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO SOCI ECON PGOV PREL CH |
08GUANGZHOU201 | U.S. Businesses Still Bullish on South China [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. companies are optimistic about the economic outlook for south China, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in South China's (Amcham) annual survey of firms. However, some results suggested their outlook was slightly less rosy than a year ago, with fewer firms statin [...] | 2008-04-02 08:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB CH |
08GUANGZHOU225 | Despite One-Stop Lab, Producers Still Complain about [...] (SBU) Summary: Even with the opening of south China's first joint-venture testing lab that will provide one-stop shopping for third party and government testing, toy manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta complain about the burden of meeting multiple standards. They believe that that a new con [...] | 2008-04-21 07:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU228 | Leaving the PRD - Regulations and Market Conditions Forcing [...] (SBU) Summary: The numbers differ dramatically, with some investors hyping a massive exodus of factories from the Pearl River Delta (PRD) while local government officials spout figures that obscure the scale of the trend. But one thing is clear: many firms are choosing to move production to n [...] | 2008-04-21 09:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ELAB ETRD EFIN CH |
08GUANGZHOU244 | Guangdong Officials Express Willingness to Cooperate to [...] (SBU) Summary: In cordial meetings with Jared Ragland, Director of the U.S. Trade Representative's Office of Intellectual Property and Innovation, Guangdong provincial and municipal officials described recent successes in enforcing intellectual property rights (IPR),as well steps they plan to [...] | 2008-04-25 08:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU249 | 103RD CANTON TRADE FAIR OVERALL NO SLACKENING, U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Officially the 103rd Canton Fair was a success with slight increases in attendance and orders, but local travel industry contacts complained of lower participation from U.S., EU, Japanese and Korean buyers. Security was notably tighter with numerous seminars cancelled. End summa [...] | 2008-05-05 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU267 | Guangdong Highlights IPR Efforts in 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: Reviewing Guangdong Province's progress on intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement at an April 24 press conference, Intellectual Property Office Director General Tao Kaiyuan announced a new strategic plan aimed at improving IPR conditions. One omission: no plan details. [...] | 2008-05-09 09:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU291 | Uncomfortable Squeeze for South China Shoe Factories [...] (SBU) Summary: What do you do when it costs more to close a south China shoe factory than to continue operations? Some Hong Kong and Taiwan investors downsize and keep their production lines open, adopting a wait-and-see approach. Others turn the key on the door one evening and abscond at nig [...] | 2008-05-23 06:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU307 | GUANGZHOU GOVERNMENT GRAPPLES WITH "AFRICA TOWN" [...] (SBU) Summary: The local authorities have responded to the growing numbers and high concentrations of Africans in various Guangzhou neighborhoods by quietly funding research into crime rates, religious practices, and tax payments associated with their activities. It is unclear whether this is [...] | 2008-06-03 01:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL SOCI XA CH NI ML RW |
08GUANGZHOU414 | Guangdong Releases Labor Contract Law Implementation [...] (SBU) Summary: Since it went into effect on January 1, Guangdong businesspeople, domestic and foreign, have struggled to be in compliance in the absence of implementing guidelines. No more. Or to be more precise, some, if not all of the ambiguity, was removed on July 7 when the Guangdong High [...] | 2008-07-14 08:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU435 | A Lighter Coat of Varnish: PRD Furniture Manufacturers [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 03:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU437 | A Lighter Coat of Varnish: PRD Furniture Manufacturers [...] (SBU) Summary: Hard times are here - and likely here to stay - for the Pearl River Delta's (PRD's) furniture makers. The industry has been among the most affected by a local business environment that has become less friendly to labor-intensive, export-oriented firms. As with other similarly o [...] | 2008-07-23 05:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU438 | 2008 Pearl River IP Forum Achieves Breakthrough in [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2008 Pearl River IP Forum - jointly organized by the U.S. Consulate's Guangzhou branch of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO Guangzhou) and Guangdong Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on July 15 - brought together -- for the first time in recent memory -- bus [...] | 2008-07-23 06:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU455 | U.S. Firm Sees Rising Number of Child Labor Cases [...] (SBU) Summary: Factory auditors from a major U.S. firm have seen an increase in incidences of child labor at some factories of firms it contracts with, especially in Shantou, Guangdong and Quanzhou, Fujian. A senior auditor told us that a tighter labor market, with employees looking for opport [...] | 2008-07-30 08:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU479 | Wal-Mart Signs Collective Agreement in Shenzhen - A Model [...] (SBU) Summary: Wal-Mart just wanted a good contract that burnished its reputation as a good corporate citizen. What it got, according to the firm's senior human resources (HR) manager, was one that the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) hopes will be a model for foreign enterprises t [...] | 2008-08-08 07:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU487 | Guangdong's Cosmetic Makers Sees Stronger Safety Regulation [...] (U) Summary: The Chinese government's regime for protecting consumers from unsafe cosmetic products has strengthened in the last year -- foreign consumers that is. Executives in Guangdong's cosmetic manufacturing industry point out that government testing and inspection of export products has [...] | 2008-08-11 09:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU529 | Local Focus on Brand Promotion Leads to Stronger IPR [...] (SBU) Summary: Next to industrial powerhouses like Shenzhen and Dongguan, Shunde is small potatoes among Pearl River Delta cities. But its brand promotion efforts have yielded impressive results. The town boasts market leaders in the household appliance industry that rank among China's top 50 [...] | 2008-08-28 06:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU562 | South China Bankers Calm in Face of U.S. Financial Storm [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. financial crisis will have little impact on China's financial sector, according to U.S. managers at two south China banks. They point out that the exposure of Chinese banks to "toxic" instruments that have been weakened by the crisis is very small. They are more concer [...] | 2008-09-24 09:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PFIN ECON EINV ETRD CH |
08GUANGZHOU618 | Toy Factory Closure Raises Concern, Foreshadows More [...] (SBU) Summary: Factory closures, especially those like Smart Union in the toy industry, have become topic one in south China, especially in the Pearl River Delta. Local governments are now scrambling to identify other factories that might be on the verge of shutting down; many of these have be [...] | 2008-10-24 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU619 | Shenzhen Stock Exchange Official Sees Trouble Ahead for [...] (C) Summary: A Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) official believes that the impact of the global financial crisis is already being felt in south China's real economy. However, she acknowledged that many firms are well positioned to weather the storm. She complained about the effect of retail inve [...] | 2008-10-24 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU625 | South China IPR: Visiting US Federal Judge and Prosecutor [...] (U) Summary: Conventional wisdom says that judges can talk with judges, police can talk with police. During a PTO-sponsored two-day program in south China, a Senior U.S. District Judge and a Department of Justice (DOJ) Prosecutor talked with both, and students too, sharing ideas on how to prot [...] | 2008-10-29 08:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU648 | 104TH CANTON TRADE FAIR: ATTENDANCE AND BUSINESS DOWN, BUT [...] Summary: The 104th Canton Trade Fair could not escape the effects of the global financial crisis, with almost 15,000 fewer visitors and a transaction volume down nearly seven billion U.S. dollars from the 103rd Fair held six months ago. Fair officials claimed that the event had nonetheless gon [...] | 2008-11-10 06:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU655 | 104TH CANTON TRADE FAIR: ATTENDANCE AND BUSINESS DOWN, BUT [...] Summary: The 104th Canton Trade Fair could not escape the effects of the global financial crisis, with almost 15,000 fewer visitors and a transaction volume down nearly seven billion U.S. dollars from the 103rd Fair held six months ago. Fair officials claimed that the event had nonetheless gon [...] | 2008-11-12 03:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU668 | China's Largest Association of Taiwan Investors Complains [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 500 out of 6,000 Taiwan-invested enterprises have closed in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) city of Dongguan since last year, with more closures to come over the Lunar New Year holiday, according to the Secretary General of the Dongguan Taiwan Businessmen's Association [...] | 2008-11-14 09:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU696 | Guangdong Toy Association 20th Anniversary -Celebration or [...] (SBU) Summary: The Guangdong Toy Association's recent Twentieth Anniversary Banquet was both a celebration of the organization's milestone, but also a rallying cry for manufacturers facing economic challenges unprecedented in the organization's history. Concerns about declining overseas orders [...] | 2008-11-26 09:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU711 | CHINESE CIVIL AVIATION: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE IN SOUTH [...] (U) Summary: An early-November agreement on direct charter flights between Taiwan and mainland China will have a negative effect on the number of passengers transiting Macau, according to aviation experts gathered for Zhuhai's biannual Airshow China at the 2008 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau-Taiwan [...] | 2008-12-08 07:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU715 | Dire Predictions in Dongguan -- Hong Kong Investors Predict [...] (SBU) Hong Kong investors in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) are sounding the alarm, eager to attract attention to the growing economic impact of the global financial crisis on labor-intensive export manufacturers that have been a driving force in the region's economy. Leaders of an industrial as [...] | 2008-12-09 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EFIN ECON ETRD EIND PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU719 | Dongguan Officials Express Optimism But Acknowledge [...] (SBU) Summary: Government officials in Dongguan, a major manufacturing center in the heart of the Pearl River Delta between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, are doing their best to put a positive spin on the city's economic prospects. They express hope that Dongguan's growth in 2009 will be comparable [...] | 2008-12-11 08:57:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU720 | South China IPR: Rights Holders Call for "IPR Summit" and [...] Summary: Lax enforcement remains the key problem for intellectual property (IP) rights holders operating in south China, according to the 30 business and legal professionals at the Consul General's December 2 IPR roundtable. Rights holders recommended that senior Obama Administration IP offici [...] | 2008-12-11 09:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU723 | Thirty Years of Reform and Opening: Shantou - The SEZ That [...] (U) Summary: Despite its special economic zone (SEZ) status and natural advantages such as a seaport and a large overseas Chinese population, Shantou's economic performance over the last 30 years has lagged behind that of Guangdong Province as a whole. Shantou officials and academics say their [...] | 2008-12-16 06:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV ETRD |
08GUANGZHOU724 | Shantou - Eastern Guangdong Economy Has Advantages to [...] (U) Summary: Maybe our industry and government contacts in Shantou are dreaming but they are starting to think that perhaps after thirty years their time has come and the global financial storm won't have the same damaging impact in eastern Guangdong Province that it's wreaking on the export-p [...] | 2008-12-17 06:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN ETRD EIND PGOV |
08GUANGZHOU732 | 30 Years of Reform and Opening in Guangdong - Retreat to [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Guangdong Province, where China's economic transformation began, is in a celebratory mood publicly, but behind the scenes, everyone - from top government and business leaders to think tankers whose job it is to peer into the future - is fretting over the meaning of 30 [...] | 2008-12-22 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ELAB ETRD EINV EIND CH |
08GUANGZHOU92 | Government Incentives Diminishing in South China Investment [...] (SBU) Summary: Government policies encouraging investment in south China have significantly diminished and are no longer a major factor in most foreign and domestic companies' investment decisions here, according to local manufacturers who met with visiting U.S. International Trade Commission ( [...] | 2008-02-14 07:49:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD EIND ECON SENV PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU97 | Looking toward ASEAN - Guangxi Hopes to Expand Economic [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is eager expand economic relations with Southeast Asia. ASEAN already accounts for 32 percent of its total foreign trade, and the capital, Nanning, hosts the high-profile China-ASEAN Expo, which attracts hundreds of businesses and many heads of s [...] | 2008-02-15 08:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EINV ELTN EWWT EIND ECON ASEAN CH |
08GUATEMALA100 | ADDENDUM TO GUATEMALA'S CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-30 23:44:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID PGOV GT |
08GUATEMALA1018 | DEMARCHE ON 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DRAFT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 18:11:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD KSUM GT |
08GUATEMALA255 | GUATEMALAN COMPANIES VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATE IN [...] On February 27, during its annual awards ceremony, the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (AGEXPORT) and its Apparel and Textile Industry Commission (VESTEX) publicly recognized and certified 29 Guatemalan textile and apparel companies that voluntarily participated in, and fulfilled the requi [...] | 2008-02-29 01:05:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM ECON KJUS KDEM GT |
08GUATEMALA262 | GUATEMALA'S INPUT ON CAFTA-DR LABOR TRADE CAPACITY [...] Per reftel, post consulted with the Ministry of Labor on its areas of focus and priority needs for CAFTA-DR labor trade capacity building in Guatemala. Labor officer delivered reftel points, explaining to Ministry officials that the USG is seeking input from all stakeholders through various c [...] | 2008-02-29 20:03:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD EAID KDEM PHUM KJUS PGOV GT |
08GUATEMALA304 | BANANA WORKERS UNION CO-FOUNDER MURDERED IN [...] (U) Summary: On March 2, Miguel Angel Ramirez, co-founder and organizer of the recently formed Banana Workers Union of the South (SITRABANSUR) at Chiquita banana-producing Olga Maria Farm, was killed at home by unidentified armed assailants who broke into his house. Ramirez' murder occurred [...] | 2008-03-10 22:45:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM ETRD GT |
08GUATEMALA398 | USG-FUNDED PROJECT TO STRENGTHEN GUATEMALA'S LABOR [...] USG-funded CAFTA-DR labor project "Cumple y Gana" and the Guatemalan Apparel and Textile Industry Commission (VESTEX) signed an agreement March 12 to design and develop an organizational conflict resolution system, which will include two groups of trained mediators specialized in organizational [...] | 2008-03-28 22:59:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD PHUM KJUS KDEM GT |
08GUATEMALA54 | GUATEMALA'S CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-18 23:16:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID PGOV GT |
08GUATEMALA632 | GUATEMALA SUBMITS REPORT ON UNSCR 1803 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 13:56:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR GT |
08GUATEMALA654 | GUATEMALA: REVIEW OF CUBA FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (C) Post's response to reftel regarding the relationship between the Cuban and Guatemalan governments is provided below. -- The GOG has not actively promoted the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba, and has not officially supported activities connected with the May 21 Day of [...] | 2008-05-22 22:52:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU GT |
08GUATEMALA693 | GUATEMALA: INFORMATION ON CHILD/FORCED LABOR IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-02 20:54:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI GT |
08GUATEMALA845 | GUATEMALAN LABOR MINISTRY HOSTS NATIONAL SEMINAR [...] On July 1, the Ministry of Labor, in coordination with representative organizations of the Guatemalan labor movement and civil society, hosted the "First National Seminar to Promote Employment and Business Competitiveness through Compliance with Labor Laws in Guatemala." Government officials, [...] | 2008-07-07 22:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM ECON KJUS KDEM GT |
08GUATEMALA853 | GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper on the Universal Postal Union (UPU) to Luis Carranza, Director for Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA); Joaquin Flores Espana, Director General of Postal Services at the Ministry of Communications; and Ingrid Barillas, Hea [...] | 2008-07-08 21:14:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO GT |
08GUATEMALA895 | PRESIDENT COLOM SIGNS PETROCARIBE DEAL WITH [...] On July 13, President Colom signed a PetroCaribe deal (reftel) with Venezuela during the 5th Extraordinary Summit of PetroCaribe member states in Maracaibo, Venezuela to help alleviate Guatemala's increasing fuel and food prices. Under the terms of the deal, which requires congressional approv [...] | 2008-07-14 23:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON ETRD PREL PGOV SOCI GT |
08GUATEMALA934 | GUATEMALA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATES FOR UNIVERSAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 22:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO GT |
08GUATEMALA974 | U.S. LABOR OFFICIALS VISIT GUATEMALA TO INITIATE REVIEW OF [...] (U) U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) officials visited Guatemala July 20-25 to initiate review of a submission filed by the AFL-CIO, in collaboration with six local unions, under CAFTA labor provisions. The submission alleges labor violations in five cases, including the 2007 murder of two union [...] | 2008-07-30 18:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD KDEM PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM GT |
08GUAYAQUIL234 | GUAYAQUIL BUSINESS LEADERS FRET OVER ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 17, the Ambassador met for the first time with leaders of the Guayaquil business sector to hear views on the investment climate in Guayaquil, Ecuador,s commercial center, and priorities for the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Ecuador. Most participants [...] | 2008-09-26 15:20:00 | Consulate Guayaquil | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB PGOV EC |
08HALIFAX13 | NEW BRUNSWICK PREMIER PUSHING TO MAKE HIS PROVINCE THE "NEXT [...] (SBU) New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham and Energy Minister Jack Keir are working hard to make energy the catalyst for moving their province to economic self-sufficiency. Their agenda calls for their province to be a reliable and long-term electricity supplier to the northeastern United Stat [...] | 2008-03-14 20:06:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV PINR SENV CA |
08HALIFAX36 | URANIUM MINING IN ATLANTIC CANADA: PROTESTS VERSUS PROFIT [...] Considering there is a vociferous and devoted anti-uranium lobby in Canada's Atlantic Provinces, it appears unlikely that the region will be joining the world uranium club any time soon. There are identified commercial quantities of uranium in three of the four provinces that could be develop [...] | 2008-05-28 11:59:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PHUM CA |
08HANOI1010 | QSCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI1018 | CODEL SHELBY TOUCHES DOWN IN HANOI [...] (U) Summary. Senator Shelby met with Vietnamese economic officials, international organization and business representatives, and the National Assembly on August 22 in Hanoi. The Senator delivered a useful message on the need to reform the State owned enterprise sector, make capital available [...] | 2008-09-05 02:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI1027 | VIETNAM'S PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET ENDORSE FURTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with visiting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and members of his cabinet embraced further liberalization for Vietnam's economy and expressed their desire to look for additional ways to increase bilateral ties with the Un [...] | 2008-09-09 09:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN EINV VM |
08HANOI1039 | (U) Deputy Secretary Negroponte's September 11, 2008 [...] (U) September 11, 2008; 0915; Hanoi, Vietnam. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak DAS Scot Marciel PolCouns Brian Aggeler D Special Assistant Kaye Lee D Special Assistant Ted Wittenstein DPolCouns Mike Goldman (Notetaker) VIETNAM DPM/FM Pha [...] | 2008-09-12 08:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD VM |
08HANOI1040 | (U) Deputy Secretary Negroponte's September 11, 2008 [...] (U) September 11, 2008; 0915; Hanoi, Vietnam. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak DAS Scot Marciel PolCouns Brian Aggeler D Special Assistant Kaye Lee D Special Assistant Ted Wittenstein DPolCouns Mike Goldman (Notetaker) VIETNAM DPM/FM Pha [...] | 2008-09-12 08:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD VM |
08HANOI1056 | (SBU) Deputy Secretary Negroponte's Dinner with Vietnamese [...] (U) September 11, 2008; 19:00 p.m.; Hanoi, Vietnam. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary Amb. Michael Michalak Amb. Scot Marciel, EAP DAS DCM Virginia Palmer D Special Assistant Kaye Lee D Special Assistant Ted Wittenstein Press Officer Angela Aggeler (Embassy Notetaker) [...] | 2008-09-15 08:47:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL PGOV PHUM OPRC ECON ETRD |
08HANOI1060 | STATE BANK AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING INFLATION, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a candid discussion with EAP DAS Scot Marciel and visiting Department of Treasury representatives, State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Vice Governor Nguyen Van Binh defended the SBV's efforts to fight inflation. He emphasized that despite pressure to shore up Vietnam's state-owned [...] | 2008-09-16 01:30:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI1061 | STATE BANK AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING INFLATION, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a candid discussion with EAP DAS Scot Marciel and visiting Department of Treasury representatives, State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Vice Governor Nguyen Van Binh defended the SBV's efforts to fight inflation. He emphasized that despite pressure to shore up Vietnam's state-owned [...] | 2008-09-16 06:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI107 | MISSION WELCOMES OECD INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) The Embassy welcomes the opportunity for enhanced engagement in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with potential Southeast Asian partners, and looks forward to further information from the Department on this initiative. Vietnam has the goal of becoming an [...] | 2008-01-31 00:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ETRD AORC OECD BR CH ID IN SF XC VM |
08HANOI1072 | PHARMA, IPR AND MARKET ACCESS TOP TIFA AGENDA [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY. The United States and Vietnam held the latest round of discussions under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) in Hanoi [...] | 2008-09-17 09:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV KIPR ECON EAGR ECIN EIND POL VM |
08HANOI1084 | VIETNAM CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN 2008 U.S.-VIETNAM LABOR [...] On September 19, 2008, Embassy Hanoi received a letter from Vice Minister Huynh Thi Nhan, of the Vietnam Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA),confirming participation in this year's U.S.-Vietnam Labor Dialogue, tentatively scheduled for October 17, 2008 in Washington, DC. [...] | 2008-09-19 09:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD EAID ECON VM |
08HANOI1095 | IMF SAYS GVN ECONOMY NOT OUT OF THE WOODS [...] (SBU) Summary: An IMF team concluded its twelve-day assessment of Vietnam's macroeconomic situation and briefed the Hanoi donor community on September 16, 2008. While a number of economic indicators including the current account balance have improved, core inflation remains high and the bank [...] | 2008-09-23 03:41:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI1108 | VIETNAM ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. FDI AT BREAKNECK SPEED, [...] (U) This cable is part of an ongoing series on developing economic stories in Vietnam. U.S. INVESTMENT ROLLING IN AT AN UNPRECEDENTED PACE --------------------------------------------- 2. (U) U.S. investment in Vietnam in the first eight months of 2008 grew at an unprecedented pace. Auth [...] | 2008-09-25 00:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI1113 | VIETNAM CIVAIR: SCENESETTER FOR OCT 6-8 OPEN SKIES TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Vietnam's civil aviation negotiator for upcoming negotiations with the U.S. stated that he is willing to discuss Open Skies, but noted that fifth freedom passenger services between Japan and Vietnam continue to be a concern. All-cargo liberalization is less problema [...] | 2008-09-26 09:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EIND EINV ETRD VM |
08HANOI1139 | REVIEWING THE TRADE AGENDA: TRANSPAC, BIT, IMPORT [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy Hanoi discussed a number of trade and investment agenda items with Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials from the ministries [...] | 2008-10-03 09:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECIN ECON PGOV VM |
08HANOI114 | VIETNAM: AMBASSADOR MEETS MINISTER OF TRANSPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 29, the Ambassador met with Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dung to promote an Open Skies Treaty, request GVN funding for the follow-on phases of the USTDA Aviation Safety Technical Assistance Project, and advocate for ratification of the Cape Town Convention on aircra [...] | 2008-01-31 08:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EIND EINV ETRD VM |
08HANOI1162 | AGRICULTURAL ACCESS IS ENOUGH TO SWAY VIETNAM IN TRADE DEAL [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vietnam and Japan broke an impasse in their free trade negotiations, with Japan yielding on some of Vietnam's demands for preferent [...] | 2008-10-10 04:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON VM |
08HANOI1163 | SENSE AND SENSIBILITY IN VIETNAM'S RUSSIA POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Relations with Russia occupy an important, but by no means central place in Vietnam's foreign policy. An influential generation of policymakers continues to hold surprisingly warm feelings toward Russia, and ties have improved steadily since the Yeltsin years. But long gone are [...] | 2008-10-10 07:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD RS VM |
08HANOI1186 | U.S. AND VIETNAM AGREE TO OPEN SKIES CARGO REGIME [...] (U) Summary: The United States and Vietnam agreed to an Open Skies regime for all-cargo services on October 7 following two days of talks in Hanoi. The two sides renewed the 2003 Air Transport Agreement for three years and agreed to eliminate designation and frequency restrictions on passenge [...] | 2008-10-17 06:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EIND EINV ETRD VM |
08HANOI1201 | VIETNAM ECON HIGHLIGHTS: PM STRESSES ECONOMIC STABILITY, [...] (U) In his state of the nation address before the National Assembly on October 16, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung vowed to take a cautious approach to resolving the economic challenges of the coming year. Dung began his address by acknowledging that the country's macroeconomic stability was "t [...] | 2008-10-22 10:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD KIPR VM |
08HANOI1215 | U.S. AND VIETNAM AGREE TO OPEN SKIES CARGO REGIME [...] (U) Summary: Delegations from the United States and Vietnam agreed ad referendum to an Open Skies regime for cargo services on October 7 following two days of talks in Hanoi. The new agreement will renew the 2003 Air Transport Agreement for three years and the delegations intend to meet withi [...] | 2008-10-28 04:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EIND EINV ETRD VM |
08HANOI1217 | WELL-PLACED VIETNAMESE CONTACTS DOWNPLAY PROSPECTS [...] (C) Summary: The Communist Party of Vietnam's 181 Central Committee (CC) members met October 2-4 to hash out "guidance" for the government on Vietnam's current economic situation. This was the third plenum to take place this year. Well-placed contacts told us CC members came together to promot [...] | 2008-10-28 10:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM VM |
08HANOI1243 | U.S.-VIETNAM POLICY PLANNING TALKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Meeting for the inaugural round of U.S.-Vietnam policy planning discussions, S/P Director David Gordon and the MFA's DG for Policy Planning, Bui Thanh Son, engaged in a candid, cordial, and at times freewheeling exchange of views on the implications of the global financial cri [...] | 2008-11-07 03:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD EFIN VM |
08HANOI1260 | SOWING THE SEEDS OF A BIOTECH DISCUSSION IN VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mission Vietnam sponsored a series of biotechnology conferences that generated frank discussions among Vietnamese farmers, policymakers and academics about basic research and field testing, and led to calls from conference participants for the Government of Vietnam (GVN) to develo [...] | 2008-11-13 09:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR ETRD EAID ECON VM |
08HANOI1265 | VIETNAM'S DISTRIBUTION SECTOR READIES FOR FOREIGNERS [...] (U) Summary. In less than two months, Vietnam will open its distribution and retail sectors to fully foreign-owned firms. Preparations for these important changes have not been problem-free, and both the GVN and the private sector have at times seemed to talk past each other. There is also a v [...] | 2008-11-14 07:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINT KTDB VM |
08HANOI1286 | STROLLING DOWN RED CARPET: VIETNAMESE LEADERS SEEK [...] (C) Summary: Over the past month, Vietnam's leaders have been especially busy carrying out Vietnam's "friends with all" foreign policy, visiting Beijing and Moscow and welcoming top leaders from around the world. According to an expert on Vietnam's foreign relations, the advisory councils of [...] | 2008-11-20 09:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM VM |
08HANOI1320 | VIETNAMESE RESPONSE TO MELAMINE CONTAMINATION SHOWS [...] (U) Summary. Recent discoveries of melamine contamination in milk products, eggs and animal feed imported from China highlight gaps in Vietnam's food safety import programs. Though the Government of Vietnam (GVN) eventually located, sampled, and tested thousands of products, its initial react [...] | 2008-12-03 07:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV TBIO EFIN ETRD VM |
08HANOI1336 | FROM THE PM DOWN, VIETNAM,S LEADERSHIP LEANING TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the Ambassador on December 5 that he supported Vietnam,s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Separately, officials from the Foreign affairs and the Trade and Industry ministries confirmed that the Prime Minister has told his Cabin [...] | 2008-12-09 08:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON POL VM |
08HANOI1342 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BAUCUS, DEC 16-20, 2008 [...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you to Vietnam. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's June visit to Washington exemplifies a U.S.-Vietnam relationship that continues to broaden and mature, in the process spurring economic, social and technological development that has eased the path [...] | 2008-12-09 10:30:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI1347 | VIETNAM-CUBA: TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) MFA officials and contacts at the MFA-affiliated Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam insist that Vietnam and Cuba continue to enjoy warm "fraternal" relations. Absent fundamental change in either country, there is little prospect that Vietnam will substantially support U.S. priorities for Cuba [...] | 2008-12-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU VM |
08HANOI1357 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR WEBB'S DECEMBER VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Senator Webb: Your December 22-January 2 visit to Vietnam comes at an opportune moment. Our bilateral relationship with Vietnam is arguably at its highest point since relations were normalized in 1995. Propelled by a series of senior bilateral visits, the United States and Vietnam have [...] | 2008-12-15 09:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM |
08HANOI1360 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH MFA VICE MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: In what we hope will be a regular monthly exchange, the Ambassador raised UNSC Security Council Resolutions on Somalia (septel),Vietnamese membership in the Trans Pacific Partnership, human rights, adoption, the Megaports Initiative and our proposed MOU on civilian nuclear pow [...] | 2008-12-15 10:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD TRGY VM |
08HANOI1365 | Vietnam's Ruby Industry [...] (U) This cable is in response to State 127059. 2. (SBU) Vietnam has two operational mines that are actively producing rubies. One mine is located in Yen Bai province and the other in Nghe An. Both mines are privately owned and produce approximately 15-20 kilograms of mixed gemstone ore, in [...] | 2008-12-16 10:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL EFIN ETRD VM |
08HANOI1368 | STAFFDEL NELSON REVIEWS FOOD SAFETY ISSUES [...] (U) Summary. A Staff Delegation from the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, consisting of Chief Investigator David Nelson and Investigative Counsel Krista Carpenter, visited Hanoi from December 4 to 8 to meet with Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials to review U.S. foo [...] | 2008-12-17 04:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV TBIO EFIN ETRD VM |
08HANOI1372 | STAFFDEL NELSON REVIEWS FOOD SAFETY ISSUES [...] (U) Summary. A Staff Delegation from the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, consisting of Chief Investigator David Nelson and Investigative Counsel Krista Carpenter, visited Hanoi from December 4 to 8 to meet with Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials to review U.S. foo [...] | 2008-12-17 08:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV TBIO EFIN ETRD VM |
08HANOI1382 | AUSTR ASSESSMENT: VIETNAM GSP AND LABOR REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: AUSTR Lewis Karesh's December 3-7 visit to Vietnam focused on labor reform, especially freedom of association and collective bargaining, the statutory requirements for GVN to receive GSP status. After a series of frank discussions regarding labor issues, the GVN indicated that [...] | 2008-12-18 10:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EINT ELAB VM |
08HANOI1401 | SENATOR BAUCUS URGES VIETNAM TO OPEN MARKET TO U.S BEEF, [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu, Industry and Trade Minister Vu Huy Hoang and Education Vice Minister Banh Tien Long on December 16-17, 2008. Baucus urged Vietnamese officials to open the [...] | 2008-12-23 08:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI1404 | VIETNAM FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH BY STAFFDEL LUSE, SENATE [...] (U) Summary: Keith Luse, Senior Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with Vietnamese officials, scientists, policy makers, and NGO representatives to analyze food security issues and identify partnership opportunities in Vietnam from December 6-11. Vietnamese pa [...] | 2008-12-24 07:14:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR TBIO EAID VM |
08HANOI1408 | SENATOR WEBB'S DECEMBER 23-24 MEETINGS IN HANOI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging set of meetings in Hanoi December 23-24, Senator Jim Webb emphasized the considerable progress made since he first re-engaged with Vietnam as a civilian in 1991. Speaking with officials from the National Assembly (NA),MFA and Ministry of Industry and Trade (M [...] | 2008-12-30 04:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM |
08HANOI1412 | REFORMERS DISCUSS ECONOMIC SLUMP, PCI SCANDAL AND [...] (C) Summary: During a December 29 dinner discussion with the Ambassador, three founding members of the reform-minded Institute for Development Studies expressed doubt that a proposed stimulus package of $6 billion would be implemented in full. They argued that small and medium business owners, [...] | 2008-12-30 09:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD ECON SOCI PREL VM |
08HANOI1417 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOD EXTERNAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Michalak met with Director of the External Relations Department at the Ministry of Defense (MOD),Lieutenant General Pham Thanh Lan, December 18 to discuss MIAs (both U.S. and Vietnamese),U.S. support for demining activities, Agent Orange remediation activities, and [...] | 2008-12-31 07:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD MARR VM |
08HANOI145 | VIETNAM SHRUGS OFF CUBAN AND VENEZUELAN ECONOMIC TIES [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Cuba does not appear to be in a rush to learn about Vietnam's successful free market experiments, according to officials from Vietn [...] | 2008-02-05 08:02:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL VM |
08HANOI155 | DEMARCHE TO VIETNAM ON TAFT GOODS PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) On February 13, Econ Counselor demarched the Government of Vietnam on labeling for textile, apparel, footwear, and travel (TAFT) goods (reftel) through Nguyen Hong Duong, Deputy Director of the Americas Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. We gave Duong a copy of the U.S./EC [...] | 2008-02-13 09:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON VM |
08HANOI156 | PM TAPS TRADE MINISTRY TO TAKE OVER MAIN TIFA DUTIES [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed the Trade and Industry Minister to take over the lead of the U.S. - Vietnam Trade and [...] | 2008-02-13 09:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN EINV PGOV VM |
08HANOI193 | VIETNAM'S 2007 ECONOMY: HIGH ECONOMIC GROWTH, RECORD [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 8.5 percent in 2007, the highest economic growth rate in the last ten years. 2007 was also a record year for Vietnam's foreign direct investment (FDI) since the country opened its economy with USD 20.3 billion new and additional commitm [...] | 2008-02-20 09:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV VM |
08HANOI194 | VIETNAM SHOULD REMAIN ON THE 2008 SPECIAL 301 WATCH LIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Vietnam recommends continued placement of Vietnam on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) Special 301 Watch List for 2008. One year after acceding to the World Trade Organization, Vietnam has continued efforts to put in place an effective legal regime to [...] | 2008-02-20 09:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI206 | FROZEN ASSETS: RECORD COLD SNAP HARMS CROPS, LIVESTOCK AND [...] Summary: Now entering its sixth-week, a record long period of cold weather is killing livestock and crops in northern and central Vietnam, threatening the food source and economic well-being of some of Vietnam's poorest populations. With temperatures from the city of Hue north to the border w [...] | 2008-02-22 06:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR VM |
08HANOI243 | VIETNAM TRADE IN 2007: U.S. EXPORTS UP 73 PERCENT, TOTAL [...] Summary. Vietnam's total trade with the world broke the $100 billion mark in 2007, capping 16 consecutive years of expanding trade with a 29 percent increase over 2006. U.S. exporters also gained in 2007 as U.S. exports grew 73 percent, three times as fast as Vietnamese exports to the United [...] | 2008-02-29 09:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EFIN EFIS EIND EPET ECON KTDB KTEX VM |
08HANOI277 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 2-3 visit to Hanoi, Assistant Secretary for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Christopher R. Hill met with the GVN Ministry of Foreign Affairs (paras 2-12) and National Assembly (paras 13-15),the Communist Party of Vietnam (paras 16-20),religious leaders (paras 21-23),n [...] | 2008-03-07 04:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OTRA ECON ETRD CONS VM |
08HANOI29 | VIETNAM AIRLINES WILL EQUITISE PARTLY IN 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam Airlines' (VNA) new CEO Pham Ngoc Minh told the Ambassador that VNA will partly equitise in 2009 and revealed VNA's ambitious plan to become one of the preeminent air carriers in Southeast Asia. The Ambassador thanked Minh for Vietnam's recent purchase of Boeing aircraf [...] | 2008-01-09 09:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EIND EINV ETRD BEXP VM |
08HANOI306 | VIETNAM SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND [...] (U) Your visit is a good opportunity to encourage Vietnam to continue the process of opening to the world and reforming internally. Vietnam's national leadership remains eager to learn from the United States on economic and governance reform, and will be attentive to what you have to say. You [...] | 2008-03-17 02:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ETRD EINV EFIN KIPR PREL PHUM KIRF EAIR |
08HANOI312 | FOLLOWING UP WITH VIETNAM ON TAFT AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS [...] (SBU) On March 13, acting Econ Counselor followed up with the Government of Vietnam (GVN) on the proposal on labeling for textile, apparel, footwear, and travel (TAFT) goods, in a joint demarche with his EU counterpart in Hanoi. The GVN said that it "warmly welcomed" the proposal and "shares i [...] | 2008-03-17 09:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON VM |
08HANOI345 | DNSA PRICE'S VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs Daniel M. Price visited Hanoi for official meetings on March 20-21. He received assurances of Vietnam's interest on a BIT, on addressing IPR issues, and on USG technical assistan [...] | 2008-03-26 08:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KIPR OVIP PGOV VM |
08HANOI358 | TIFA MEETINGS FOCUS ON TRADING RIGHTS, IPR AND MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: The United States and Vietnam conducted Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks in Hanoi from March 19 - 21, during which the sides followed up on a full range of WTO implementation and other issues including IPR, market access for pharmaceuticals and cultural prod [...] | 2008-03-28 09:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR EFIN KIPR EIND EPET KTDB VM |
08HANOI377 | PM DECLARES WAR ON INFLATION, WB STILL OPTIMISTIC ON [...] (U) Summary: With inflation in Vietnam hitting 19.4 percent year-on-year for March, the Prime Minister has very publicly made lowering inflation on of his top priorities, and has just released a seven-point plan to ease inflationary pressures. Despite the domestic macroeconomic challenges an [...] | 2008-04-01 09:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV VM |
08HANOI388 | VIETNAM'S MARKET HAS FALLEN AND IT CAN'T GET UP [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's stock market has dropped dramatically in the first quarter of 2008, prompting the Government of Vietnam to take a number of steps to try to stabQe the market. A plan to have the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) buy shares did not prevent further declines. Nar [...] | 2008-04-04 09:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV VM |
08HANOI394 | VIETNAM CUTTING RICE EXPORTS; STORIES DIFFER ON SCALE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam, the world's second largest rice exporter in 2007, announced it will cut 2008 rice exports by 11 percent, and may reduce rice export volume by a further 11 percent, pending yields of early-year harvests. Despite recent international press reports identifying a domestic [...] | 2008-04-07 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI407 | A/S SPOONER ADDRESSES GVN CONCERNS ON APPAREL MONITORING [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a three-day technical exchange on trade remedies with the Vietnamese government (GVN),Import Administration Assistant Secretary David Spooner met with senior Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) officials on April 3 to discuss the Department of Commerce's Import Monit [...] | 2008-04-09 10:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ECON EIND ETRD ETTC VM |
08HANOI457 | INVESTMENT IN VIETNAM UNDETERRED BY GLOBAL SLOWDOWN [...] (U) Summary: Foreign investment continues to pour into Vietnam in record numbers. In just the first three months of 2008, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) has approved 148 new foreign investment projects valued at $5.1 billion, a 43 percent year-on-year increase. Foreign investors made commit [...] | 2008-04-21 09:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EINV ETRD VM |
08HANOI475 | VIETNAM ECON HIGHLIGHTS: GVN SETS SIGHTS ON LOWER TARGETS, [...] (U) This cable is part of an ongoing series on developing economic stories in Vietnam. GVN ABANDONS GROWTH AND INFLATION TARGETS ----------------------------------------- 2. (U) Lower-than-expected growth and higher-than-expected inflation and trade deficit figures are forcing the GVN to [...] | 2008-04-24 08:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ACOA ECPS EFIN EIND ETRD PGOV VN |
08HANOI498 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Tackling rising food prices is part of Vietnam's larger challenge of addressing soaring inflation rates, which hit 21.5 percent year-on-year in April. International agricultural experts say that they are not worried about food security, even among Vietnam's rural poor, noting t [...] | 2008-04-29 04:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID VM |
08HANOI532 | VIETNAM: DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1803 60-DAY REPORT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 08:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR VM |
08HANOI55 | ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM - PM AGREES TO "GUILLOTINE" TO CUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an unprecedented three-year action plan known as "Project 30" to implement sweeping administrative and regulatory reforms in Vietnam that will affect all 22 national ministries and 64 provinces. This plan, developed by USAID with the [...] | 2008-01-16 09:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID BEXP ETRD VM |
08HANOI556 | VIETNAM: DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1803 60-DAY REPORT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR VM |
08HANOI56 | VIETNAM'S POOL OF SKILLED LABOR DRYING UP [...] Summary: Vietnam has earned a reputation for its industrious, low-cost, and young labor force. Unprecedented economic growth, however, is imposing severe demands on Vietnam's labor market. With local and foreign investors draining the talent pool, Vietnam's labor force no longer confers the a [...] | 2008-01-16 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAID ILO ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI573 | CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? VIETNAM'S MOBILE PHONE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's telecommunication market continues its rapid development, underpinned by the strong performance of the mobile phone sector, which surpassed 35 million subscribers in 2007. New market entrants and more flexible government regulations helped to drive down costs and incre [...] | 2008-05-16 00:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD ECON KPRV VM |
08HANOI590 | VIETNAM RESPONDS POSTIVIELY TO U.S. CODEX CHAIRPERSON [...] (U) On May 15, visiting U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Charles Lambert, accompanied by AgAttache, delivered reftel points on the candidacy of Dr. Karen Hulebak for Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) to Dr. Vu Ngo [...] | 2008-05-20 08:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO VM |
08HANOI602 | AMBASSADOR'S ROUNDTABLE IDENTIFIES KEY CHALLENGES TO [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a May 16 roundtable discussion on intellectual property rights (IPR) in Vietnam with more than 40 U.S. business community representatives. Participants discussed the ongoing challenges of weak enforcement of Vietnam's laws; low, non-deterrent penalty levels; [...] | 2008-05-22 08:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI610 | VIETNAM ECON HIGHLIGHTS: LIFTING CAPS ON RICE EXPORTS AND [...] (U) This cable is part of an ongoing series on developing economic stories in Vietnam. RICE EXPORT CAPS MAY BE LIFTED ------------------------------ 2. (U) Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Minister Cao Duc Phat said that Vietnam may lift its ban on new rice export contracts begin [...] | 2008-05-23 07:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI634 | Part I: Latest Economic Data Sends HCMC Analysts Into A [...] (SBU) Summary: After a record of good performance through the first half of 2007, missteps in fiscal and monetary policy have set the stage in 2008 for concerns that the GVN needs stronger macro-economic management. High inflation, exchange rate fluctuations and lack of SOE control have erode [...] | 2008-05-30 11:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI64 | Draft Biotech Regulations Could Hamper Trade [...] Summary. This cable provides translation of Vietnam Food Administration's latest draft biotechnology regulations, which are expected to be formally notified to the WTO soon. On their face, the regulations could hamper or restrict U.S. exports of biotech products. Post would welcome comments [...] | 2008-01-17 09:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD WTRO TBIO USTR VM |
08HANOI643 | VIETNAM: FORCED AND CHILD LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF GOODS [...] Summary: Forced and child labor (as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005) is not generally used to produce goods in Vietnam. While there is some evidence that abuses do sometimes occur, they are neither widespread nor systematic. Indeed, much of the inform [...] | 2008-06-02 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON POL EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI VM |
08HANOI658 | Part II: GVN ANNOUNCES FURTHER MEASURES TO INSTILL [...] (U) This cable is part of an ongoing series on Vietnam's macroeconomic situation. 2. (SBU) Summary: Facing persistent high inflation and market concerns about the stability of the dong, the Government of Vietnam (VN) has begun to make a more concerted and public effort to address growing ma [...] | 2008-06-04 09:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI694 | VIETNAM'S FOOD SAFETY PROGRAMS LACK BITE [...] (SBU) Summary: The second recent major cholera outbreak served as a backdrop to the recent March announcement by the Ministry of Health (MOH) to focus on food safety issues. Earlier this year, Vietnam initiated a USD 81 million-4-year plan consisting of six different food safety and hygiene pr [...] | 2008-06-10 07:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV TBIO EFIN ETRD VM |
08HANOI695 | Part III: PM VOWS TO DEFEND THE CURRENCY, REJECTS CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Prime Minister told a group of bankers on June 8 that the GVN has no plans to devalue the dong and will continue to intervene to defend the currency. He rejected the notion of capital controls, which he said would be a mistake. The PM further stated that Vietnam is not co [...] | 2008-06-10 07:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI714 | INTEREST RATES GO UP, DONG GOES DOWN [...] (U) Summary. The State Bank of Vietnam raised several key interest rates by 2.0 percentage points, in an effort to rein in inflation and slow lending growth, the latter of which is running at more than 60 percent higher than a year ago. Even with these increases, however, deposit and lending [...] | 2008-06-13 08:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI731 | SCENESETTER FOR U.S. VISIT OF VIETNAM PRIME MINISTER DUNG [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's Prime Minister views his June 24 White House meeting as an opportunity to confirm to all -- including those who hate us -- that the United States will remain a big part of Vietnam's future. In particular, he will celebrate our remarkable economic partnership, built on [...] | 2008-06-18 09:37:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ETRD EINV PREL PHUM KIRF EAIR VM |
08HANOI738 | FOCUS ON U.S. BUSINESS IN VIETNAM: DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS; [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (U) This cable is the first in a series focusing on issues on the U.S. private sector and business agenda in Vietnam. 3. (SBU) Summary: The issu [...] | 2008-06-20 10:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIND EINV VM |
08HANOI739 | VIETNAM TO RESUME RICE EXPORTS IN JULY [...] Vietnam announced on June 18 that it would resume rice exports from July 2008, lifting the ban that it had placed last March. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) expects to be able to export up to one million tons of rice from July to September, bringing 2008 totals to 3.5 million tons by October. [...] | 2008-06-20 10:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON ETTC VM |
08HANOI743 | VIETNAM ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: WIDER TRADING BAND, IMPORT [...] This cable is part of an ongoing series on developing economic stories in Vietnam. SECURITIES COMMISSION WIDENS SHARE TRADING BAND --------------------------------------------- -- 2. The State Security Commission (SSC) widened the daily trading band on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange [...] | 2008-06-23 09:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD EAID ECPS ECON EAGR VM |
08HANOI752 | VIETNAM: UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-25 09:56:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO VM |
08HANOI774 | SBV CAN'T SEE THE FOREX FOR THE TREES [...] (SBU) On June 26, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) issued Official Letter 5728 prohibiting banks from performing dollar-dong trades through a third currency. Previously, some banks had been trading from dong to a third currency (often Euros) and then into dollars in an attempt to circumvent the [...] | 2008-07-02 09:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI806 | VIETNAM ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: FARMERS BENEFIT FROM HIGHER [...] This cable is part of an ongoing series on developing economic stories in Vietnam. RISING FOOD PRICES INCREASE AVERAGE WELFARE ------------------------------------------- 2. Rising food prices have benefited Vietnam's average household welfare and helped push down further the poverty ra [...] | 2008-07-11 10:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR EAIR ETRD VM |
08HANOI814 | CIVAIR: SAFETY ISSUES COULD RESULT IN EUROPEAN BLACKLIST OF [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. aviation experts from the FAA, Boeing, and Robinson Aviation met with officials of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) and Vietnam Airlines. The team discussed the results of a December 2007 civil aviation safety audit conducted in Vietnam by the Internation [...] | 2008-07-14 03:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD ECON BEXP KTIA VM |
08HANOI842 | MOLISA FAVORS LOU EXTENSION AND LABOR DIALOGUE NEXT WEEK [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) would like to sign a four-year extension of the Letter of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Labor. It also proposes to send a Vice Minister to Washington at the end of July/beginning of August to sign the exten [...] | 2008-07-21 10:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD EAID ECON VM |
08HANOI846 | GAS PRICE INCREASE FUELS INFLATION, UNHAPPINESS [...] (U) The GVN announced new fuel price increases on Monday, July 21. Gasoline prices went up 31 percent, diesel up 14 percent, and petroleum products kerosene and mazut went up 44 and 37 percent respectively. The increase follows an 11 percent hike on gas and a 36 percent increase on diesel i [...] | 2008-07-22 08:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI847 | VIETNAM ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: IMPORT LICENSING, RICE EXPORT [...] This cable is part of an ongoing series on developing economic stories in Vietnam. More transparency is expected for OTC securities market --------------------------------------------- ---- ----- 2. According to Mr. Nguyen Vu Quang Trung, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Securities Trading [...] | 2008-07-22 10:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI871 | VIETNAM NOT RUSHING TRADE DEALS [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vietnam has ongoing trade and investment multilateral and bilateral negotiations with Australia and New Zealand, the EU, Chile, Japa [...] | 2008-07-28 08:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON KTDB VM |
08HANOI877 | CPV PLENUM TAKES PLACE AMID TALK OF MID-TERM [...] (C) From July 9-17, the Party's 181 Central Committee (CC) members convened in Hanoi amid a backdrop of high inflation and talk of a possible mid-term Party Congress. Mission sources report that CC members do not favor holding a mid-term Congress, although some leaders are using recent econom [...] | 2008-07-30 07:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM VM |
08HANOI878 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MERCURY ISSUES AT THE ADHOC [...] (U) As requested, ESTH delivered this demarche to the Vietnam Environmental Protection Agency (VEPA) in mid-June. VEPA officials first stated that they would respond by letter, than suggested a meeting, subsequently cancelled the meeting, requested additional time to consider the issue, and fi [...] | 2008-07-30 09:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAGR ETRD SENV VM |
08HANOI881 | GVN HAS TOUGH ECONOMIC CHOICES AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert Dohner, in meetings with Vietnamese government officials on July 2 and 3, conveyed that Vietnam's prospects are still strongly positive but appropriate policy choices over the next few months would be critical to achieving a more stable [...] | 2008-07-30 09:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI883 | IMF CONGRATULATES WHILE CAUTIONING THE GVN [...] (SBU) Summary: The IMF Resident Representative in Hanoi believes the macroeconomic situation in Vietnam has stabilized in the short term, citing exchange rates and the stock market as reflective of increasing investor confidence. He cautions, however, that a reduction in interest rates is pr [...] | 2008-07-31 00:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI90 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IPR ENFORCEMENT IN VIETNAM'S CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's mountainous northeast border region with China has tied its economic development plans to Vietnam's growing international trade. Provincial governments are making the most of their geographic advantages and reaping growth rates that exceed the 8.5 percent national aver [...] | 2008-01-28 01:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR EAID EINV ETRD OTRA EIND VM |
08HANOI934 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY, AUG. 21 to 24, 2008 [...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you to Vietnam. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's June visit to Washington exemplifies a U.S.-Vietnam relationship that continues to broaden and mature, in the process spurring economic, social and technological development that has eased the path [...] | 2008-08-11 04:37:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM |
08HANOI938 | VIETNAM ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: FUEL PRICE HIKES TEMPER GOOD [...] (U) This cable is part of an ongoing series on developing economic stories in Vietnam. VN INDEX AND INFLATION IMPROVE BEFORE FUEL PRICE INCREASES --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (U) Although Vietnam's inflation declined and the stock market went up during July, the f [...] | 2008-08-13 04:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECPS ECON EAGR ETRD VM |
08HANOI940 | VIETNAM PROPOSES TO "BEGIN IMMEDIATELY" WORK ON NON-MARKET [...] (U) On August 13, 2008, Embassy Hanoi received the following letter from Vietnam's Minister of Industry and Trade, Mr. Vu Huy Hoang, addressed to Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez, dated August 11. Post has the original copy of the letter on file. 2. BEGIN TEXT: Re: Establishing [...] | 2008-08-14 00:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ETTC |
08HANOI951 | PM DUNG GETS THE BALL ROLLING ON WORKING GROUP TO REVIEW [...] (U) On August 13, 2008, Embassy Hanoi received the following letter from Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung of Vietnam, addressed to Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez, dated August 11. Post has the original copy of the letter on file. 2. BEGIN TEXT: Dear Mr. Secretary, All members [...] | 2008-08-15 07:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ETTC |
08HANOI996 | VIETNAM PROPOSAL FOR FY 2008 IPR OUTREACH PILOT PROGRAM [...] Mission Vietnam is pleased to submit a program proposal for consideration by EEB as part of the 2008 IPR Outreach Pilot Program (REF A). This proposal follows on our May 16, 2008 Roundtable with U.S. business representatives in Vietnam (REF B) and consultations with the Government of Vietnam's [...] | 2008-08-28 06:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KIPR ECON ETRD VM |
08HARARE203 | Zimbabwe input for 2008 President's report on AGOA [...] Status: Not eligible, largely for reasons related to political pluralism, economic reform, corruption, rule of law, and human rights. 2. Market Economy/Economic Reform/Elimination of Trade Barriers: The government pays lip service to Marxist economic principles but has increasingly used [...] | 2008-03-14 10:58:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA ZI |
08HARARE232 | POULTRY AND PATRONAGE, HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN AN [...] (C) Econoffs met with David Irvine, Managing Director of Irvine's Day Old Chicks Ltd on March 19 to discuss the business climate ahead of the elections. Irvine, who has connections to a number of pro-Mugabe Ministers, is exploiting all angles to procure the inputs needed to keep his business g [...] | 2008-03-27 10:37:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV ASEC ZI |
08HARARE277 | Reading the Tea Leaves in Zimbabwe: Troubled Times [...] (U) Production is down at Zimbabwe's two largest tea estates in the face of a severe labor shortage and lack of foreign exchange for inputs. In addition, the move to mechanization has reduced tea leaf quality and the amount of exportable product. Both estates have sought deals to improve the [...] | 2008-04-04 11:00:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV ASEC ZI |
08HARARE280 | THE TALE OF TWO U.S. COMPANIES' EXIT FROM ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) In the past several months both Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson have shut down their local production facilities, driven out by corporate prohibitions on dealing in the parallel foreign exchange market, ever-shifting monetary policy including a punishing rate of forex retention, [...] | 2008-04-04 13:21:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV ASEC ZI |
08HARARE34 | HARARE 2008 BFIF PROJECT PROPOSAL [...] (U) Embassy Harare proposes to draw on the Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF) to support a sequel to successful previous BFIF-funded "Just Business" fora (Refs A and B). ---------------------------- "Just Business" Forum Sequel ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) Post [...] | 2008-01-17 13:40:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABUD AMGT BEXP ECON ETRD ZI |
08HARARE363 | SURVIVOR ZIMBABWE: HOW BUSINESS COPES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 14:34:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV ASEC ZI |
08HARARE468 | CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) Per Ref A request, the following information is provided on Zimbabwe-Chinese relations. China's engagement in Zimbabwe covers economic, commercial, political and military spheres. Economic ties are strongest in the construction, agriculture, and mining sectors, but actual investment has [...] | 2008-05-28 11:14:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR EMIN EFIN ETRD EINV MARR CH ZI ASEC |
08HARARE610 | ZIMBABWE'S FY 2008 SUGAR EXPORTS TO THE U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD ECON ZI |
08HARARE614 | ZIMBABWE'S MANUFACTURING SECTOR REELS UNDER [...] (U) According to a survey carried out by the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) covering 2007, Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector, once the backbone of the economy, is stricken by the weight of innumerable, largely man-made constraints. Output and employment within the sector have decli [...] | 2008-07-15 06:20:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV ASEC ZI |
08HARARE705 | HARARE POC FOR USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 15:08:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD OTRA ASEC ZI |
08HARARE73 | REGIONAL BLACKOUTS UNDERSCORE ZIMBABWE'S POWER WOES [...] (SBU) Power blackouts across the region this week have underscored the precarious state of Zimbabwe's regional and domestic power supply. South Africa no longer exports power to Zimbabwe; the DRC supply is erratic; Cahora Bassa Hydroelectric (HCB) in Mozambique is holding Zimbabwe on a tight [...] | 2008-01-25 11:10:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ECON EMIN ENRG ETRD PGOV ZI |
08HARARE838 | BFIF-FUNDED FORUM STIMULATES PUBLIC DEBATE ON [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 12. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) On August 21, the American Business Association of Zimbabwe (ABAZ),supported by the State Department's Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF) and by local companies, held an economic forum on tackling h [...] | 2008-09-17 10:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV ZI |
08HARARE873 | FY08 BFIF DETAILED ACTUAL EXPENDITURES - ZIMBABWE [...] The following is a detailed accounting of actual expenditures for the American Business Association of Zimbabwe (ABAZ) 2008 forum held on August 21, 2008 and funded by Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF). As instructed in reftel A, receipts and supporting documents will be faxed to Gal [...] | 2008-09-24 13:02:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN BEXP BTIO EINV ETRD ZI |
08HARARE898 | ZIMBABWE'S RESPONSE TO USITC ON INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (U) Zimbabwe's infrastructure has been deteriorating over the past decade of economic decline. Foreign currency shortages, skills flight, and lack of maintenance have been largely responsible for the decline. The deteriorating infrastructure negatively affects the country's export competitiv [...] | 2008-10-03 10:51:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV ZI |
08HARARE903 | ZIMBABWE - AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 14:01:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON XA ZI |
08HAVANA460 | VISIT TO CUBA OF BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AMORIM [...] (C) Poloff met with Brazilian DCM Vilmar Coutinho (please protect) to discuss the May 30-31 visit to Cuba of Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim. Amorim's visit was a follow-up to Brazilian President Lula da Silva's January 2008 visit to Cuba (Reftel). In addition to meeting with his co [...] | 2008-06-17 14:41:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF ETRD CU BR |
08HAVANA77 | BRAZILIAN EMBASSY READOUT OF LULA VISIT TO CUBA [...] (C) PolCouns met with Brazilian Minister Counselor Vilmar Coutinho on January 18 to get a readout of President Lula's visit to Cuba. Coutinho described the visit as very successful, having achieved the goals of both sides. As had been reported in the press, Cuba and Brazil signed 10 bilater [...] | 2008-01-22 21:56:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | CU EAGR ECON ENRG EPET ETRD PREL |
08HAVANA863 | POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE AT ANNUAL TRADE FAIR [...] (C) Lesk than one week after the Government of CudQ (GOC) made their annual case to the UnqtUd Nations that thQ U.S. embargo w!s#cruhing deir economy,QrheGOs used`lhU :th Hmvyna Inte2vatinal vaQ~t/ mialght&o the@embrd_&mQ "ailfd. `Wtkou,8hiht,or iron,tke O8claia twynwQin commeea, qelxGms&Qe4d# [...] | 2008-11-14 19:13:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR PGOV PINR PREL ECON TBIO CU |
08HAVANA878 | ALL CHINA, ALL THE TIME - AT LEAST THIS WEEK [...] (C) For four straight days, Chinese President Hu Jintao's 36 hour visit has dominated the Cuban press. China and Cuba signed 12 agreements, including renewed contracts for Cuban exports and much needed restructuring of Cuba's debt. Hu arrived in Cuba in between visits by Brazilian President [...] | 2008-11-21 19:40:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU |
08HAVANA880 | ALL CHINA, ALL THE TIME - AT LEAST THIS WEEK [...] (C) For four straight days, Chinese President Hu Jintao's 36 hour visit has dominated the Cuban press. China and Cuba signed 12 agreements, including renewed contracts for Cuban exports and much needed restructuring of Cuba's debt. Hu arrived in Cuba in between visits by Brazilian President [...] | 2008-11-21 20:49:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU |
08HELSINKI155 | THOUGHTS ON FINLAND AS I DEPART POST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Upon my departure following two years of service as the US Ambassador to Finland, I would like to thank you and President Bush for having afforded me this tremendous opportunity. My team and I have worked hard to nurture and strengthen the US- Finnish bilateral [...] | 2008-04-07 13:38:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV MARR ETRD FI |
08HELSINKI223 | FINLAND: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 13:08:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ETTC PREL CU FI |
08HELSINKI238 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - [...] The following is Embassy Helsinki's response to reftel regarding the impact of rising food/commodity prices in Finland. Post has done no previous reporting on this subject. DEMAND 2. The most important agricultural commodities consumed in Finland are milk, meat and grains, and the most [...] | 2008-05-30 10:37:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL FI |
08HELSINKI266 | FINLAND: HIGH TECH VISIT BY AMBASSADOR GROSS [...] (U) Summary: On a May 22-25 visit to Helsinki, Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy met with key government leaders including Finnish Minister of Communications Suvi Linden, and Ambassador Lanispuro, ICT and Information Society Policy [...] | 2008-06-18 08:02:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND EINT ETRD BEXP FI |
08HELSINKI269 | AMBASSADOR BARRETT MEETS WITH FINNISH PRIME [...] (U) Ambassador Barbara M. Barrett paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen on June 3. Finnish Special Advisor, State Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Esko Hamilo also participated in the meeting. 2. (SBU) Vanhanen expressed overall satisfaction with the US-Finnish relationsh [...] | 2008-06-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD USTR KIPR KGHG FI |
08HELSINKI278 | AMBASSADOR BARRETT MEETS WITH FINNISH EMPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) During the Ambassador,s June 19 courtesy call, Minister of Employment Tarja Cronberg indicated she may wish to pursue a meeting or other contact with Secretary Chao after returning from summer vacation. Cronberg complimented the Embassy's city outreach program bringing Embassy employees [...] | 2008-06-25 12:40:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB ETRD EINV ENRG KGHG FI |
08HELSINKI292 | AMBASSADOR BARRETT MEETS WITH FINNISH STATE [...] (SBU) During Ambassador Barrett's June 13 courtesy call on Risto Volanen, State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Volanen explained his duties as Chief- of-Staff for the Prime Minister. He invited Ambassador Barrett to bring issues to his attention that require emphasis or demand imme [...] | 2008-06-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC KGHG ENRG KIPR ETRD FI |
08HELSINKI311 | FINNISH GOVERNMENT APPROVES PHARMACEUTICAL [...] Summary: In a disappointing move and despite Embassy and industry efforts, the Finnish cabinet voted unanimously June 25 to approve a reference pricing scheme for pharmaceuticals, a provision of which undermines the value of patent protection for medicines created and manufactured by U.S. and [...] | 2008-07-09 09:35:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD FI PREL |
08HELSINKI550 | FINNISH COMMENTS ON THE DECEMBER 8-9 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. PolOff met with MFA Unit for the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy Director Leena-Kaisa Mikkola to discuss GAERC points on December 5. On the question of enlargement, she stated that the Western Balkans will be part of a general discussion and Turkey will be encou [...] | 2008-12-05 15:12:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EUN ZL IS PK CG TU FI |
08HOCHIMINHCITY10 | HCMC BUSINESS LEADERS: UP THROUGH HARD WORK AND NEW IDEAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam is increasingly a land of opportunity for those with business skill and determination. Over the last decade, enterprising HCMC businesspeople like Dang Thanh Tam and Le Thi Phuong Thuy have risen from obscurity to positions of national influence. They succeeded by champ [...] | 2008-01-04 01:17:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN ETRD BEXP VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY1002 | AMIDST MUDDLED POLICIES, STAFFDEL ATKINS FINDS SOLID SCIENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Bureaucratic mismanagement, insufficient and misdirected funding, and lack of university autonomy have stymied both scientific research and science education in Vietnam, according to government officials, non-government organizations and private sector experts. Nevertheless, Hou [...] | 2008-11-07 10:44:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY1055 | SOUTHERN LEGISLATOR ON PUBLIC FEARS ABOUT THE ECONOMY AS [...] (C) Vietnam's National Assembly is bracing for the impact of the global financial meltdown, according to National Assembly delegate and chairman of Vietnam's largest retailer Saigon Coop, Nguyen Thanh Hoa. On break from the current National Assembly session in Hanoi, Hoa explained that "most [...] | 2008-12-04 14:20:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EIND PGOV PREL SOCI VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY1075 | HOPES AND FEARS OF MEKONG DELTA REST WITH ITS DEVELOPING [...] (SBU) Summary: In anticipation of possible changes to the way the United States regulates imported Vietnamese tra and basa ("catfish"),Senior Investigator David Nelson from the House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce visited seafood producers in the Mekong Delta on December [...] | 2008-12-16 11:34:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR SENV TBIO EFIN ETRD VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY1088 | DIVERGENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS IN THREE "DEEP SOUTH" PROVINCES [...] (U) Summary. Vietnam's "deep south" provinces of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Soc Trang are among the roughest business environments in the southern provinces of Vietnam. Both private and state-owned enterprises say they are struggling with poor infrastructure, weak consumer demand and inadequate acc [...] | 2008-12-23 11:37:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EAGR PGOV SENV SOCI TBIO VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY1092 | CODEL BAUCUS SCORES POINTS WITH HCMC AND CAN THO LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. Political, business and civil society leaders in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC),Can Tho City and Long An Province all warmly welcomed Senator Max Baucus during his December 18-20 visit to promote bilateral relations, advance U.S. trade policy and increase educational cooperation. Ho [...] | 2008-12-24 07:43:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD EFIN SOCI PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY1096 | VIETNAMESE FISH INDUSTRY COURTS CODEL BOSWELL [...] (SBU) Summary: During CODEL Boswell's visit to the Mekong Delta on December 18, GVN officials and business executives appealed for greater U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation on trade issues and emphasized the concerted efforts Vietnam has made toward improving food safety standards for its aquaculture [...] | 2008-12-29 10:40:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD EFIN SOCI PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY1099 | U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS EXPAND TO WILDLIFE PROTECTION AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Wildlife trafficking, the fate of Vietnam's premier national park and sustainable development comprised the agenda of Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science (OES) Claudia A. McMurray's November 18-22 visit to southern Vietnam. Officials responsible for [...] | 2008-12-30 05:32:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EIND SENV SOCI PGOV PREL VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY239 | STEEP WAGE INFLATION HITS HCMC EMPLOYERS, CONSULATE [...] (U) Summary. Rapid economic growth accompanied by years of rising foreign investment in Vietnam mean companies new and old are competing over human resources, especially the limited pool of professionals (ref B). Combined with uncomfortably high inflation, the corporate scuffle for personnel [...] | 2008-03-06 08:47:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB EINV VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY320 | LABOR SHIFTS PUT PRESSURE ON MANUFACTURERS [...] (SBU) Southern Vietnam's manufacturing workers are striking in the normally calm post-Tet Lunar New Year months, a precedent that sets the stage for higher wages yet to come. In one of Binh Duong province's key industrial parks, strikes persisted even though local average wages had climbed 30 p [...] | 2008-03-25 10:15:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB EINV VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY352 | SUPPLY ISSUES LEAD TO POWER CUTS IN HCMC [...] (SBU) Summary: The power went out in parts of Ho Chi Minh City last week, as the energy demanded by a booming economy outstripped supply. Electricity shortages muddy Vietnam's efforts to attract investment and directly impact U.S. businesses, so on April 2 the Ambassador visited the source of [...] | 2008-04-04 05:10:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD ELAB EINV VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY359 | MONETARY POLICY PITS INFLATION HAWKS AGAINST EXPORTERS [...] (SBU) Vietnam's leadership remains intent on fighting inflation despite the increasingly apparent toll on economic growth; the Government of Vietnam (GVN) recently proposed revised growth estimates for 2008 down from 8.5 percent to 6.5-7.5 percent. Nevertheless, exporters now complain loudly [...] | 2008-04-09 08:54:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY39 | HCMC BUSINESS LEADERS -- THE SOUTH IS RISING AGAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For proof that Vietnam really is changing, one need look no further than the fate of persons closely associated with the pre-1975 Republic of Vietnam (RVN) government and their families. After years of poverty and deprivation, often including lengthy stints in harsh "reeducation [...] | 2008-01-10 11:39:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ELNT ETRD BEXP VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY583 | SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: A/S HERNANDEZ DELEGATION OPENS DOORS [...] (SBU) Assistant Secretary of Commerce Hernandez led a trade delegation of 14 small- and medium-sized U.S. enterprises (SMEs) to HCMC on June 18-20. The delegation's meetings with potential local partners, HCMC officials, and Amcham members generated commercial opportunities and increased unde [...] | 2008-06-27 02:04:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD BEXP KTEX OTRA OVIP VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY696 | TURNING HCMC'S HIGH TECH DREAMS INTO REALITY [...] (U) Summary: Despite ongoing concerns about human resources, Vietnam's ICT market, which is now among the fastest growing in the world, is beginning to create opportunities for businesses and investors alike. President Nguyen Minh Triet recently presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for wh [...] | 2008-07-30 10:26:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EIND EINV EINT ETRD KIPR SOCI VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY915 | VIETNAMESE EXPORTERS WELCOME CPSC SAFETY STANDARDS MESSAGE [...] (SBU) Consumer product exports have been a central pillar of Vietnam's economic development success story -- in 2007 Vietnam was the 31st largest source of imports to the United States and the surprising leader in some products, candles for instance. So when Consumer Product Safety Commission C [...] | 2008-10-03 09:47:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL SOCI VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY940 | PRESS SAYS FARMERS SUFFERING BECAUSE GVN GUESSED WRONG ON [...] (SBU) Vietnamese farmers and newspapers are now openly critical of the Government of Vietnam (GVN's),accusing it of mismanaging the country's rice market. The GVN sets export targets and rice prices, seemingly to the advantage of the state-owned companies. Earlier this year central planners [...] | 2008-10-17 05:26:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV SOCI VM |
08HOCHIMINHCITY972 | VIETNAM'S EXPORTERS EXPECT TO GROW IN 2009, BUT MORE SLOWLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Most Vietnam watchers believe that the economy is largely shielded from the direct effects of global financial turmoil, but would be hurt by any significant decline in overseas consumer demand for Vietnamese exports. Orders for most "value" products like low-cost apparel remain [...] | 2008-10-28 12:01:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EIND SOCI PREL VM |
08HONGKONG1 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: VICTORY WAVE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-01-02 03:23:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1000 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ROTTER INTERNATIONAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-06-02 08:14:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1006 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 08:36:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG1007 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 08:37:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG1044 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 01:42:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG1067 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: LAM LABORATORIES LIMITED [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-06-13 08:08:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1070 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT WING FAT TRADING CO/SHENZHEN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 08:10:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1087 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: WINSUNY TECH HK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 08:45:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG119 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ASIA LINK (HONG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-18 08:50:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1215 | SFI PILOT: HONG KONG EAGER FOR STATUS QUO [...] (C) Summary: Department of Homeland Security Secure Freight Initiative (SFI) Director Richard DiNucci met with Hong Kong Trade and Investment Department (HK TID) Deputy Director General Ngai Wing Chit to reassure Hong Kong of the U.S. Government's commitment to the Secure Freight Initiative p [...] | 2008-07-03 08:52:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EWWT HK |
08HONGKONG1506 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: WINDWAY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 02:34:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1507 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: BOSCH SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 02:35:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1540 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE LICENSE CHECK PEIPORT SCIENTIFIC LIMITED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 09:11:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG1553 | MACAU FOLLOWS HONG KONG LEAD AND ELIMINATES WINE AND BEER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Monday August 25, Macau will terminate its 15 percent CIF duty and join Hong Kong as members of the extremely limited club of tax-free importers of wine and beer. Macau's move will greatly simplify the transshipments of wine and beer between the two vibrant Special Administrati [...] | 2008-08-22 00:36:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR HK CH |
08HONGKONG1719 | LEHMAN TRADING OPERATIONS SUSPENDED IN HONG KONG; [...] (SBU) Summary: Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index (HSI) closed down 5.4 percent on September 16, mirroring losses in other major global markets in the wake of Lehman Brother's bankruptcy. HK's market regulatory authorities suspended Lehman's stock and option trading licenses and restricted financial [...] | 2008-09-16 11:15:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1726 | HKG ASSUMES WATCH OVER AIG'S LARGE LOCAL SUBSIDIARY [...] Summary: Sharp declines in locally listed Mainland banking and insurance stocks drove the Hang Seng Index (HSI) down 3.6 percent on September 17, while HKG authorities intensified their oversight of AIG's very large local operating subsidiary, AIA. Local media reported that the HKG's Office of [...] | 2008-09-18 00:17:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1727 | HK OFFICIALS TELL DEPUTY SECRETARY OF CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Secretary visited Hong Kong,s container port and discussed the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and Secure Freight Initiative (SFI) programs with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) representatives, HKG officials and a major container port terminal operator on S [...] | 2008-09-18 02:48:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECON EWWT PREL ETRD HK |
08HONGKONG1737 | HANG SENG ON WILD RIDE; BANK OF EAST ASIA SHARES SUSPENDED [...] Summary: Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index (HSI) fell 7.4 percent during the morning trading session on September 18, before recovering to close roughly flat for the day. Trading in shares of HK's largest independent local bank, Bank of East Asia (BEA),were suspended related to an "unauthorized man [...] | 2008-09-18 10:41:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1747 | BEIJING INCREASES STAKES IN MAINLAND BANKS, HANG SENG [...] Summary: Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index (HIS) closed up 9.6 percent on September 19 and ended the week down only 25 points at 19,328. Market gains were heavily influenced by Beijing's publicly announced purchase of shares in three large state-owned banks. Short-term interbank loan rates eased an [...] | 2008-09-19 10:42:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1757 | PROTESTERS ANGRY OVER LOSSES RELATED TO LEHMAN- [...] Summary: On September 21, Hong Kong's Democratic Party (DP) organized a protest by approximately 500 individuals who hold a structured debt instrument issued by Lehman Brothers. They claimed the investment's risk profile was misrepresented to them by the local commercial banks who distributed [...] | 2008-09-22 11:02:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1762 | LEHMAN MINIBOND CHORUS INTENSIFIES; LOCAL ECONOMIST [...] Summary: Hong Kong's leading Chinese-language newspaper reported on September 23 that 50,000 local investors hold approximately USD 3.2 billion of "minibonds" issued by bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers (reftel). At a September 22 town hall meeting organized by Hong Kong's Democratic Pa [...] | 2008-09-23 10:21:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1764 | HONG KONG'S RESPONSE TO MAINLAND CONTAMINATED MILK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The response by Hong Kong authorities and food retailers to reports of melamine contaminated milk powder in the Mainland and in Hong Kong has so far been swift and transparent. Even before the first of two Hong Kong cases of melamine-linked infant illness was reported on 20 Se [...] | 2008-09-23 11:54:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH EAGR ECON ETRD HK TBIO |
08HONGKONG1775 | HONG KONG SEEKS TO MODERNIZE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE [...] (C) Summary: The HKG recently closed its written public comment period on several proposals to modernize and strengthen Hong Kong's Copyright Ordinance (CO). The proposed amendments largely concern the digital transmission of copyrighted materials, especially via the Internet. Many Internet [...] | 2008-09-24 09:04:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1776 | SKITTISH DEPOSITORS LINE UP OUTSIDE BANK OF EAST ASIA [...] Summary: A rumor from undetermined sources spread throughout Hong Kong on September 24 that two local retail banks have "excessive exposures" to Lehman Brothers-backed structured finance products. The rumor, which named only the Bank of East Asia (BEA),resulted in hundreds of local depositors [...] | 2008-09-24 11:22:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG179 | HONG KONG'S 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. ----------------------------------- A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment ----------------------------------- 2. Hong Kong pursues a free market philosophy with minimal government interfe [...] | 2008-01-28 06:34:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC MO |
08HONGKONG1790 | RUN ON BEA BANK SLOWS; HONG KONG TO INVESTIGATE [...] Summary: Following reassuring comments by Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang and other key government and bank officials regarding the Bank of East Asia (BEA),public sentiment has calmed a bit today. Depositors continued to line up at BEA branches to withdraw their savings on September [...] | 2008-09-25 11:49:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON HK CH |
08HONGKONG1801 | BEA RUN ENDS, LEHMAN MINIBOND COMPLAINTS GATHER STEAM [...] SUMMARY: Support from the Hong Kong Government, Bank of China (Hong Kong) and tycoon Li Ka-shing appear to have put an end to the run on Bank of East Asia (BEA). BEA Chairman David Li put cash withdrawals at less than one percent of BEA's total deposits. Holders of Lehman Bros.-issued "minibo [...] | 2008-09-26 09:40:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1823 | Hang Seng Plummets, Rebounds on Expected New U.S. Bailout [...] Summary: The Hang Seng Index opened down sharply on news that the U.S. Congress had rejected a USD 700 billion rescue plan and word of the subsequent collapse in the U.S. and European stock markets. The Hang Seng Index opened at 980 points or 5.5 percent lower, and fell even further in early [...] | 2008-09-30 10:02:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG183 | MACAU'S 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for the Macau Special Administrative Region. ----------------------------------- A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment ----------------------------------- 2. Macau became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of [...] | 2008-01-28 11:00:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC MO |
08HONGKONG1833 | Hang Seng Unimpressed by Rescue Bill, HKMA Measures Push [...] Summary: Though the U.S. Senate approved the market rescue bill before the opening of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading day, local investors remained cautious. The Hang Seng Index failed to make a strong rebound. The five new measures implemented by Hong Kong Monetary Authority (ref A) to [...] | 2008-10-02 10:28:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG186 | FUNDING REQUEST FOR FY2008 BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH AND [...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 9. 2. Summary and Action Request: Hong Kong is on the brink of initiating the formal process for establishing mandatory labeling for biotech foods. This step could seriously undermine sales to this 8th-largest market for U.S. value-added agric [...] | 2008-01-29 07:41:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO HK |
08HONGKONG1866 | Hang Seng Plummets, HKMA Cuts Base Rate but HIBOR Still Up [...] Summary: The Hang Seng Index followed the other Asian markets down sharply on Wednesday, falling 8.16 percent. The IMF's warning that losses from U.S. loans and securitized assets could reach US$1.4 trillion appeared to drive investors to dump shares. In a presentation in Hong Kong, the IMF u [...] | 2008-10-08 10:41:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1875 | Hang Seng Recovers, but HIBOR remains High [...] Summary: The Hang Seng bounced back by 3.3 percent in response to the coordinated action by major central banks. Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tseng warned, however, that the financial crisis had yet to hit Hong Kong. Despite central bank easing, interbank liquidity in Hong Kong remaine [...] | 2008-10-09 11:15:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1886 | Hang Seng in Biggest Slide since Asia Financial Crisis [...] Summary: The Hang Seng fell another 7.7 percent on Friday, October 10, capping its biggest weekly slide since the Asian Financial Crisis. HIBOR remained high, despite HKMA efforts to assure banks have access to short-term capital. Hong Kong economic leaders predicted worse to come, advising [...] | 2008-10-10 10:19:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1909 | Tsang Policy Address Warns of Tough Times Ahead, Hang Seng [...] Summary: After a strong rebound on Monday and Tuesday, the Hang Seng Index slipped on Wednesday to close at 15988.30, down 834 points or 4.96 percent on the day. HIBOR fell slightly, but remained high. The British government's announcement that it would inject capital into the banking secto [...] | 2008-10-15 10:58:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1962 | MACAU GAMING BOOM THREATENED BY RESTRICTED VISAS, [...] (C) Summary: U.S. casino executives, Macau government officials and gaming industry experts tell us new constraints are harming continued growth in Macau's gaming industry. While gaming has driven Macau's double-digit economic growth in recent years, gaming company executives said the PRC's re [...] | 2008-10-23 10:19:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD MO CH |
08HONGKONG1970 | Hang Seng Falls to Lowest Level in Six Years [...] Summary: The Hang Seng Index dropped over 13 percent the week of October 20-24. On the good side, HIBOR fell to just 0.8 percent for overnight but was still 3.6 percent for one month lending, suggesting that the recent HKMA liquidity injection was having only marginal benefits for interbank l [...] | 2008-10-24 11:03:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1983 | Hang Seng Plummets 12.7 percent, Largest Drop Since 1989 [...] The Hang Seng Index plummeted as much as 15 percent to a low of 10,685 before recovering slightly to finish the day down 1602.54 points, or 12.7 percent, at 11,015.84. This marked the largest single-day drop since the Tiananmen Incident in 1989. No one was spared, but Chinese corporate stock [...] | 2008-10-27 10:05:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1989 | WOES-R-US: HONG KONG TOY MANUFACTURERS LAMENT [...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong-based toy manufacturers and one of their industry representative organizations recently described a "perfect storm" hitting manufacturing facilities in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of mainland China. They predicted many more Guangdong factories would close in comin [...] | 2008-10-28 09:23:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK |
08HONGKONG1991 | Hang Seng Bounces 14.35 percent, Regains Monday's Losses [...] A day after the biggest single day drop in the Hang Seng Index since 1989, the Index regained all of what it had lost on Monday and more. By the end of Tuesday trading, the Hang Seng Index was up 14.35 percent to 12,596, a gain of 1580 points, the largest one day gain since 1997. Volume was [...] | 2008-10-28 10:39:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG1999 | HONG KONG GOV'T PANEL REPORT ON MELAMINE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Hong Kong Government (HKG) has been working around the clock to test for melamine contamination; over 2,700 tests have resulted in over 34 imported products being pulled from store shelves. Over 41,700 children have been voluntarily tested for possible melamine related healt [...] | 2008-10-29 09:28:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO HK CH |
08HONGKONG2003 | Hang Seng Rockets Up 13 percent. [...] Following a moderate gain of 0.84 percent on Wednesday, the Hang Seng Index jumped almost 13 percent on Thursday, to finish up 1628 points at 14,329, up 12.82 percent. The Federal Reserves 50 basis point cut helped, but had been widely expected. The Chinese Central Bank announcement that it [...] | 2008-10-30 10:32:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2010 | HONG KONG RESIDENTS TOLD TO PREPARE FOR [...] Summary: Though they continue to assure the public that Hong Kong's financial foundation is sound, senior Hong Kong government (HKG) finance officials warned the global financial crisis would strike further blows to Hong Kong's economy. The latest government interest rate cut of 50 basis poin [...] | 2008-10-31 10:38:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2034 | Demand for HK$ Increases, Hang Seng Moves Up Steadily [...] Summary: The Hong Kong stock market responded positively to Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. Presidential election, though commentators raised concerns that U.S. trade policy would become more protectionist. The HKMA has intervened several times over the past three days as demand for HK$ inc [...] | 2008-11-05 11:37:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2071 | HONG KONG LABOR RIGHTS GROUP PUSHING COLLECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: A leading local advocate for labor rights in mainland China has begun to use the mainland's Labor Contract Law (LCL) of 2008 to organize workers in Guangdong province. His organization plans to target a successful foreign manufacturer that can become a model for future collective [...] | 2008-11-12 09:41:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EIND ELAB PGOV CH |
08HONGKONG2083 | Demand for HK$ Increases, Hang Seng Moves Up Steadily [...] Summary: Hong Kong officials arrived in the U.S. to participate in G20 meetings as part of the Chinese delegation as the local economy continued to slow. Layoffs loom as economic difficulties in Macau threaten Hong Kong workers as well. Hong Kong's Legco approved a measure to investigate bank [...] | 2008-11-14 11:44:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2084 | CORRECTED COPY: Hong Kong Officials Join G20 Meeting As [...] Summary: Hong Kong officials arrived in the U.S. to participate in G20 meetings as part of the Chinese delegation as the local economy continued to slow. Layoffs loom as economic difficulties in Macau threaten Hong Kong workers as well. Hong Kong's Legco approved a measure to investigate bank [...] | 2008-11-14 11:49:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2121 | HONG KONG SHIFTING TOWARD VOLUNTARY RULES FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Hong Kong Government (HKG) has postponed efforts to enact legislative amendments to protect copyrighted materials in the digital realm. The government instead seeks to use its recently established tripartite forum (including internet service providers, content providers, and [...] | 2008-11-21 03:03:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2129 | Hong Kong Market Report - Officials Encourage Banks to [...] Summary: Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Joseph Yam told Legco members this morning that he would introduce two new measures to encourage additional bank lending to SMEs in Hong Kong. Despite the global financial turmoil, the HKMA managed to minimize its investment losses. The HKMA control [...] | 2008-11-21 11:13:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2145 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: JSD BROAD [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-11-26 05:45:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG2146 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: CAM IC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 08:57:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG2147 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SHARE HK LTD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 08:57:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG2156 | HK Market Update, Nov. 28 -- More RMB Business in HK? [...] Summary: In recent meetings, HKMA Chief Joseph Yam asked Beijing officials to allow expanded RMB business in Hong Kong, but local analysts are skeptical that Beijing will respond positively. Standard Chartered Bank is proposing to raise HKD 20 billion in the equity markets in a plan that could [...] | 2008-11-28 10:24:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2195 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: PIONEER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-05 07:46:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG2198 | Lawsuits, Layoffs and Interest Rate Hikes in Hong Kong [...] Summary: The Hong Kong Association of Banks has reportedly suggested postponing plans to buy back Lehman minibonds, while a an American law firm has contacted Hong Kong investors, offering to explore the possibility of filing a class action lawsuit in the U.S. against HSBC. Financial Secretary [...] | 2008-12-05 11:44:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2211 | U.S. PRODUCT SAFETY COMPLIANCE: BEARABLE FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: In discussions with a Congressional Staff Delegation to Hong Kong, Wal-Mart executives promised timely compliance with all regulatory requirements under the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008. They assured the Staffdel that all food products on the compan [...] | 2008-12-09 00:52:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK |
08HONGKONG2223 | CONSUL GENERAL'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH HONG KONG [...] (U) Summary: Secretary for Food and Health York Chow discussed with the Consul General restrictions on U.S. beef, the threat to U.S. exports of packaged foods posed by Hong Kong's new nutritional labeling law, and shared food safety concerns regarding imports from the Mainland, during an intro [...] | 2008-12-11 00:15:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR HK CH |
08HONGKONG2238 | US Auto Bailout Drives Hang Seng Volatility [...] Summary: The Hong Kong government's announcement that it would greatly expand an SME loan guarantee program pushed Hong Kong stocks higher this week, before profit taking and news that the U.S. Senate had rejected a bill to bail out U.S. automakers drove the market down on Friday. Hong Kong ec [...] | 2008-12-12 12:10:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG227 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: HIKARI [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-02-04 08:49:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG2274 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: EVA HSIAO/EDOM [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-12-19 08:57:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG2276 | A Beijing Bailout for Hong Kong [...] Summary: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority cut its Base Rate to 0.5 percent, following the US Fed's cut earlier this week. Local banks did not follow suit. The Hong Kong monetary base continued to expand as investors seek a safe haven for their cash. Both Bank of China (Hong Kong) and HSBC w [...] | 2008-12-19 12:09:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH |
08HONGKONG2307 | Staffdel Nelson's Meetings on Melamine in Hong Kong [...] Summary: A U.S. House of Representatives staff delegation from the Energy and Commerce Committee traveled to Hong Kong in early December to investigate melamine contamination in Chinese food products. The U.S. Consulate General arranged meetings with Hong Kong government (HKG) officials, leg [...] | 2008-12-24 05:42:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK |
08HONGKONG2320 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: EXODUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-30 00:13:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG2321 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: VICTORY WAVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-30 00:13:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG270 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: MILLIONBOND [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-02-13 07:42:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG336 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: REMARKABLE MASK TECHNOLOGY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-02-25 09:06:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG41 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FIRE SERVICES [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-01-08 04:58:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG411 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: WALASEY LIMITED [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-03-06 01:40:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG467 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-03-13 08:35:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG468 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-03-13 08:35:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG469 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: HKSAR MARINE DEPARTMENT [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-03-13 08:36:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG564 | IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FINANCIAL PROVISIONS OF [...] (C) Post delivered reftel A talking points to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Executive Director for Banking Supervision, Arthur Yuen, on March 27. Yuen confirmed Hong Kong's commitment to supporting the requirements of all United Nations Security Council resolutions on Iran. He not [...] | 2008-03-27 23:28:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PARM ETTC KNNP PREL CH |
08HONGKONG728 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: HONG KONG COMPETITION [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-04-21 08:00:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG793 | MACAU'S MORATORIUM ON NEW CASINOS LESS THAN MEETS [...] (U) Summary: Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho, acting on "instructions", announced an immediate moratorium on new casino development in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) on April 22. No new casino concessions will be granted in the near future, no new leases for casinos will be approved, [...] | 2008-05-01 08:12:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH ECON ETRD MC EINV |
08HONGKONG816 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: BIOMERS PTE. LTD. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 00:02:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG819 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ACETONE SOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 02:10:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG820 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 02:10:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG821 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 02:10:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG822 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: BESCOM COMPUTER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 02:11:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG823 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ADVANCED MATERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 02:11:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG824 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SEISMIC CABLE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 02:11:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG834 | TOY SAFETY VIEWED FROM HONG KONG: IMPROVED, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese-manufactured toys are much safer than they were a year ago, but new price pressures threaten to compell even responsible manufacturers to try to cut corners. Toy manufacturers, business and association leaders, and laboratory testers universally claim that the industry [...] | 2008-05-07 09:05:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND BEXP HK CH |
08HONGKONG836 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: OASIS HONG KONG [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-05-08 01:06:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG837 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FABRICATORS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-05-08 01:07:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG843 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 08:37:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG859 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NIKKO TECH. [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-05-13 03:05:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG913 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: WING LEE TRADING [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-05-20 05:33:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG918 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 08:46:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG928 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 07:50:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08HONGKONG929 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SGS HONG KONG LTD [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-05-21 08:31:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG966 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: FREE COMPONENTS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-05-28 09:15:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG969 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: GOLDEN MUTUAL (H.K.) [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...] | 2008-05-29 02:05:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC |
08HONGKONG988 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: INTITUTE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 06:16:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | BMGT BEXP ETRD ETTC HK |
08IRANRPODUBAI48 | IRAN'S BAZAAR STRIKES HIGHLIGHT RESISTANCE TO ECONOMIC [...] (U) Summary: Store owners in bazaars in Esfahan, Mashad, Tabriz, and Tehran shut down their businesses in early October to protest President Ahmedinejad's decision to levy a three percent value added tax, which was implemented on Sept 22. According to press reports, merchants feared that the in [...] | 2008-10-23 09:18:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD SOCI IR |
08IRANRPODUBAI50 | IRAN: BAZAARI PROTESTS HIGHLIGHT RESISTANCE TO ECONOMIC [...] (U) Summary: Store owners in bazaars in Esfahan, Mashad, Tabriz, and Tehran shut down their businesses in early October to protest President Ahmedinejad's decision to levy a three percent value added tax, which was implemented on Sept 22. 3. (U) The strike occurred during President Ahmedinejad [...] | 2008-10-23 09:23:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ETRD IR |
08ISLAMABAD1180 | APRIL 24-25 ISLAMABAD REGIONAL ECONOMIC [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para six. 2. (SBU) As per reftel request, post approached the Economic Affairs Division of the Ministry of Finance regarding preparations for the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECC). Joint Additional Secretary Sohail Re [...] | 2008-03-17 10:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PGOV KPWR PK AF |
08ISLAMABAD1230 | GOP AGREES TO POSTPONEMENT OF APRIL 24-25 REGIONAL ECONOMIC [...] (U) SUMMARY. Pursuant to the request from the Government of Afghanistan (GOA),the Government of Pakistan (GOP) has agreed to postpone the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference (RECC) scheduled for April 24-25, 2008 in Islamabad. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) EconOff met with the Joint Secretary o [...] | 2008-03-20 05:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EAID ENRG ECON ETRD PGOV KPWR PK AF |
08ISLAMABAD1396 | A TROUBLING TREND: TEXTILE EXPORTS DOWN AGAIN. [...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan is losing its competitiveness in textile and apparel goods. Based on third quarter figures, Pakistan's textile export performance slumped in July-February 2007-08 putting the GOP's export target of USD 19.2 billion at risk. With the exception of readymade garments all [...] | 2008-04-01 11:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PK |
08ISLAMABAD16 | IMPLEMENTATION OF RECONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITY ZONES REQUIRES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 05:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PK ETRD EAID PREL AFGHAN |
08ISLAMABAD1715 | PAKISTAN: THE IMPACT OF RISING FOOD AND COMMODITY PRICES [...] (U) The following is a response to the Department's request for information on the impact that rising food and agricultural commodity prices are having on Pakistan's economic and political stability. 2. (SBU) Summary: The prices of almost all essential agricultural commodities have steadil [...] | 2008-04-30 14:08:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD1723 | PAKISTAN RUPEE FALLS BUT NO CAPITAL FLIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's rupee has lost ground against the dollar as the current account deficit continues to grow due to increased international commodity prices. It hit a new low against the dollar on April 24, breaching the September 22, 2001 low. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) believe [...] | 2008-05-01 12:44:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD1751 | DRL ASSISTANT SECRETARY KRAMER'S CALL ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary. DRL Assistant Secretary Kramer met with Khursheed Shah, the new Minister of Labor, Manpower, and Overseas Pakistanis on April 22. During the meeting, they discussed the government's initiatives to combat child labor and the trafficking of persons for bonded labor purposes. The [...] | 2008-05-05 11:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PK PREL ELAB ETRD |
08ISLAMABAD1830 | PAKISTANI RUPEE CONTINUES TO FALL [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's growing current account deficit and increasing uncertainty over the future of the government coalition are causing the rupee to fall against the dollar. The rupee closed at record lows against the dollar again on May 8, rebounding only slightly on May 9. The State Ba [...] | 2008-05-12 13:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD1880 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ADVANCED ENGINEERING RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (AERO) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 12:48:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | BMGT ETRD ETTC PK |
08ISLAMABAD189 | ISLAMIC FINANCE DEVELOPS SLOWLY IN PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pakistan has started to develop well-managed financial products for Islamic banking and finance, but their market share is still low and will take time to grow. Currently there are six full fledged Islamic banks and 13 conventional banks that offer Islamic finance products at a [...] | 2008-01-14 10:10:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL EAID EINV PK |
08ISLAMABAD1898 | LAHORE IPR SEMINAR A SUCCESS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 09:28:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV KIPR PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD1953 | STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN ANNOUNCES TIGHTER [...] (U) Summary: The State Bank of Pakistan Governor Dr. Shamshad Akhtar announced a series of measures to tighten monetary policy, drain excessive liquidity from the system, and decrease imports to firm up the rupee in a May 22 speech. Most of the new measures, which are effective immediately, a [...] | 2008-05-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2052 | STATE BANK CONCLUDES PAKISTAN'S ECONOMY SHOWING INCREASING [...] (SBU) Summary: In its third quarter fiscal year 2008 report, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) highlighted the multiple pressures on the national economy from rising fiscal and current account deficits and inflation. As a result, the SBP has used USD 4.8 billion in reserves, putting downward pre [...] | 2008-06-05 14:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2061 | FOOD CRISIS IN PAKISTAN: REASONS BEHIND THE SHORTAGES [...] (SBU) Summary: While rising fuel prices, nation-wide power cuts, insufficient irrigation water and global price trends are all to blame for the shortage of basic agricultural commodities in Pakistan, government mismanagement remains a primary cause of the country's agricultural problems. The p [...] | 2008-06-09 01:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2064 | PAKISTAN: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN [...] (U) The following is a response to the Department's request for information on the use of forced and child labor in the production of goods. Responses are keyed to questions in reftel. 2. (U) There are no recent surveys or studies on the nationwide use of forced labor and exploitative child [...] | 2008-06-09 09:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD PGOV SOCI PK |
08ISLAMABAD2106 | PAKISTAN MISSES MAJOR ECONOMIC TARGETS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Minister Naveed Qamar released on June 9 the Economic Survey for the 2007-08 fiscal year. The document, released one day before the fiscal year 2008-09 budget, reported that all major economic indicators for the first ten months of the current fiscal year (July 07 to Ap [...] | 2008-06-13 00:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2107 | PAKISTAN'S 2008-09 BUDGET: FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During the official announcement of Pakistan's fiscal year 2008-09 budget proposal to Parliament, Finance Minister Naveed Qamar described poverty reduction as the "main plank" of the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) economic policy. Qamar announced a proposed development strategy [...] | 2008-06-13 00:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR ENRG ELAB PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2108 | PAKISTAN'S 2008-09 BUDGET: NO MONEY SLOTTED FOR ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 10, Finance Minister Naveed Qamar delivered the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) proposed budget for fiscal year 2008-2009 which must still be approved by the National Assembly. Despite acknowledging that the shortage of energy and prolonged nationwide blackouts were the w [...] | 2008-06-13 00:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR ENRG PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2109 | PAKISTAN'S 2008-2009 BUDGET: OVERLY OPTIMISTIC, PART ONE OF [...] (SBU) The Government of Pakistan (GOP) released its USD 31 billion 2009-2009 budget June 11 in a speech by Finance Minister Naveed Qamar to Parliament. In addition to setting revenue targets and expenditure levels, Pakistan's budget also includes assumptions on economic growth and economic pol [...] | 2008-06-13 00:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR ENRG PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2233 | OPTIONS FOR MITIGATING PAKISTAN'S FOOD CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: In response to Pakistan's worsening food situation and its potential impact on the country's most vulnerable groups, Embassy Islamabad suggests six program options for food assistance for Washington agencies' consideration. With 100 million Pakistanis living on two dollars or les [...] | 2008-06-26 14:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL EAID ETRD EAGR PK |
08ISLAMABAD2244 | TRANSIT TRADE BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN: PROVISIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-27 17:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR EAID PREL PGOV PK AF |
08ISLAMABAD2250 | WORLD FOOD PROGRAM-LED ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN'S FOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: World Food Program (WFP),the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other international organizations briefed Government of Pakistan (GOP) officials, donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs),and diplomats on the initial phase of its food security assessment for Pakis [...] | 2008-06-30 04:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2252 | TRANSIT TRADE BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN: HOPE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-30 04:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR EAID PREL PGOV PK AF |
08ISLAMABAD2359 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: PROGRESSIVE ENGINEERING [...] Post has repeatedly contacted Progressive Engineering, located in Taxila District (approximately 30 miles from Islamabad),regarding the license request for an angular position measurement kit and requesting an appointment to visit their site. All requests were rebuffed, and the reason always [...] | 2008-07-11 07:59:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETTC ETRD PK |
08ISLAMABAD2400 | REQUEST FOR PL-480 EMERGENCY FOOD AID TO PAKISTAN THROUGH [...] (SBU) The following is an action request. Please see paragraph 12. SUMMARY - - - - 2. (SBU) Summary: In Reftel I, Post recommended six food aid options for assistance to Pakistan - three options with existing ESF resources and three options with additional resources. This message pr [...] | 2008-07-15 11:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2403 | FOOD AND AGRICULTURE POLICY REFORM OBJECTIVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY - Pakistan's current food problems are the result of high world market prices and serious policy distortions that are a disincentive to farmers. The World Bank is currently addressing some of the most difficult food pricing policy issues with the USD 500 million budget support loa [...] | 2008-07-15 14:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR ETRD PGOV PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2404 | FINANCE MINISTER QAMAR WELCOMES POSSIBILITY OF FOOD [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Naveed Qamar, the Acting Minister of Finance July 10. He welcomed the possibility of U.S. food assistance, asked for a briefing from Ministry of Finance staff regarding the bilateral investment treaty (BIT),previewed Under Secretary Jeffery's upcoming trip [...] | 2008-07-15 14:49:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2435 | PAKISTAN COMPLIANCE WITH IRISL CARGO INSPECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 07:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PREL EFIN EWWT ETRD PARM PINR KNNP |
08ISLAMABAD2465 | PAKISTAN'S 2008-2009 TRADE POLICY [...] (U) The Prime Minister announced Pakistan's 2008-09 Trade Policy on July 19. The policy sets an export target of USD 22.1 billion and a target growth rate of 15 percent. It expands the import items list from India with a view to decreasing the cost of raw materials and manufacturing inputs. [...] | 2008-07-22 12:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2467 | PRIME MINISTER ADDRESSES ECONOMIC CHALLENGES IN SPEECH TO [...] (C) Summary: In his first live address to the nation on July 19, Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani provided an overview of economic problems facing the Government of Pakistan (GOP) and what steps the government is taking to mitigate the effects on the people of Pakistan. However, his halting 11:30 [...] | 2008-07-22 13:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR ENRG PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2468 | CLARIFICATION ON POSSIBLE FUNDING SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL FOOD [...] (C) Summary: In a response to a National Security Council request to provide clarity on proposed food assistance to Pakistan in advance of the Prime Minister's upcoming visit to Washington, the following cable outlines possible financial modalities of increased food assistance to Pakistan. Thi [...] | 2008-07-22 15:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR EAID PGOV PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2470 | ECONOMY CONTINUES DOWNWARD SPIRAL AND FUEL PRICE HIKES [...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's major economic indicators continue to trend downwards with the current account deficit reaching a record high, foreign investment dropping significantly and speculative stock exchange trading causing price volatility and investor losses. On July 21, the GOP implemented [...] | 2008-07-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY PK |
08ISLAMABAD2554 | WANTED: TAX REFORM AND TAX PAYERS [...] (U) Non-payment of taxes by Pakistan's numerous small businesses, large agricultural sector, and informal economy continue to constrain GOP taxation efforts. The tax base has not been able to keep pace with economic growth spurred on by the services and industrial sectors, and GOP efforts at t [...] | 2008-07-29 03:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD EAID PREL PK |
08ISLAMABAD2590 | UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY,S MEETING WITH NWFP [...] (C) Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery met with Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ghani July 18. The Governor outlined the province,s three-pronged strategy of the selective application of force, political dialogue, and socio-economic [...] | 2008-07-31 13:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PK PTER MOPS ETRD EIND PREL |
08ISLAMABAD2632 | PAKISTAN IPR UPDATE [...] (SBU) The following is an update on IPR issues in Pakistan. Given energy and food shortages, rampant inflation, and an unstable security situation, IPR falls low on the GOP list of priorities. No progress has occurred on TRIPS-compliant data protection legislation since the coalition governmen [...] | 2008-08-05 13:58:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV KIPR PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2633 | PAKISTAN'S TEXTILE SECTOR IN CRISIS [...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's textile sector is facing a crisis. A hefty rise in natural gas prices, rolling blackouts, and the announcement of the 2008-2009 Trade Policy - which lacks subsidies and support for the textiles and apparel sector - have fed industry woes. Textiles are the largest singl [...] | 2008-08-05 14:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2801 | PAKISTANI OFFICIALS, ACTING AUSTR, AND U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On August 13, Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Claudio Lilienfeld and Department of Commerce South Asia and Oceania Director Linda Droker met with Pakistani officials in the Ministries of Commerce and Health, the Privatization Commission, and the Intellectual Pro [...] | 2008-08-23 08:47:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD IP PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2867 | GOP FORMS PRIVITIZATION PLAN WITH OVERLY AMBITIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Faced with a mounting financial crunch, Syed Naveed Qamar, Federal Minister for Privatization and Investment as well as Finance, recently chaired a meeting to finalize an overly ambitious schedule for privatization of a few low level public sector entities during September-Octobe [...] | 2008-08-29 10:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY PK |
08ISLAMABAD2868 | PLANNING FOR ROZS: STAKEHOLDERS MEETING ON LOCATIONS [...] (SBU) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti convened an August 21 meeting between provincial and federal officials to discuss the selection of Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) in the NWFP and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Federal Minister [...] | 2008-08-29 10:22:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK AF |
08ISLAMABAD2878 | PAKISTAN'S DETERIORATING ENERGY SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Electricity shortages in Pakistan are reaching record highs due to shortfalls of over 5500 mega watts (MW). In most major cities there are planned and unplanned power outages, sometimes for 18 hours a day. A circular debt problem between the domestic oil and power sector furth [...] | 2008-09-01 07:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY PK |
08ISLAMABAD2891 | PAKISTANI LEADERS DISCUSS THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ECONOMY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 09:38:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2895 | PAKISTAN LOAN STATUS REPORT - ADB AND WORLD BANK [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the media reported the Asian Development Bank (ABD) will disburse USD 500 million in budgetary support to the GOP by September 30, an ADB official informed the Embassy the loan remains contingent on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) comfort letter which the ADB has n [...] | 2008-09-02 14:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2905 | PAKISTANI PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 26, Econoffs met with Dr. Shujauddin Shaikh of Merck Sharpe and Dohme (MSD) and Dr. Iqbal Bengali of Pfizer regarding issues facing Pakistan's pharmaceutical industry. The GOP has not allowed an adjustment of pharmaceutical prices for over seven years. Domestic and mu [...] | 2008-09-03 13:26:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV KIPR PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2935 | DCM'S MEETING WITH PAKISTANI FINANCE SECRETARY [...] (C) DCM and EconOff called on newly re-installed Finance Secretary Dr. Waqar Masood at his office on September 5. Masood noted that he had been back in office only four days but nevertheless, he was deeply engaged in managing the current economic crisis. He welcomed the visit by Embassy offi [...] | 2008-09-05 12:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV PK |
08ISLAMABAD2996 | PAKISTAN ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT POWER TARIFF INCREASE [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 9 the Government of Pakistan (GOP) announced a 31 percent average increase in the electricity tariff for domestic customers to go into effect the first week of October. The GOP also changed pricing rules for the tiered tariff structure. Electricity prices for domesti [...] | 2008-09-11 13:56:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY PK |
08ISLAMABAD3095 | ECONOMIC POLICY IN PRESIDENT ZARDARI'S ADDRESS TO THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 20, President Asif Zardari addressed a joint session of Parliament. The speech touched briefly on economic issues, including a PKR 34 billion (USD 439.28 million) poverty alleviation plan and the need to eliminate oil and energy subsidies, increase the electric powe [...] | 2008-09-22 13:24:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD ECON EINV PK |
08ISLAMABAD3108 | WORLD BANK AGREES TO HELP PAKISTAN DEVELOP THAR COAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The World Bank has agreed to assist Pakistan with development of the estimated 175 billion ton Thar Coal field in Sindh Province. The World Bank plans to work with the newly formed Thar Coal and Energy Board which will be led by the Sindh Chief Minister but will include federal g [...] | 2008-09-24 03:12:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EFIN ENGY PK |