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Media: Armenian exports to Russia rise despite political tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/media-armenian-exports.html

Analysis: Vietnam's share in global smartphone exports grew from less than 1% in 2010 to 12% in 2022, while India's grew from <1% to 2.5% over the same period (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/data/who-is-winni

Not restarting coal exports from Baltimore would be a great idea. In fact, stopping all coal exports from the US would be a great idea. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61663

Ukrainian grain exports slump in March, expected to further slow down this year: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/23/ukrainian-grain-exports.html

Chinese state media: President Xi criticized "technological barriers" during Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's visit to Beijing, as the US curbs ASML exports (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Xi Slams ‘Technological Barriers’ During Dutch Premier’s Visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized “technological barriers” during Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s visit to Beijing as the US pushes to tighten controls on ASML Holding NV’s chipmaking-equipment sales to the Asian country.

Polen und Kanada sprechen über ukrainische Agrar-Exporte
Die Regierungschefs von Polen und Kanada haben über Möglichkeiten verhandelt, ukrainische Agrar-Exporte in arme Länder anzukurbeln. "Kanada und Polen könnten die Möglichkeit des Exports von ukrainischem Getreide in die hungernden und bedürftigen Länder radikal erhöhen", sagte der polnische Ministerpräsident Donald Tusk beim Besuch des kanadischen Premierministers Justin …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Macron drängt auf mehr Hilfen für Ukraine ++
Frankreichs Präsident Macron wirbt für mehr Waffen und mehr Mittel für die Ukraine. Polens Regierungschef Tusk hat die Slowakei und Ungarn aufgefordert, ihren Widerstand gegen Militärhilfe für die Ukraine aufzugeben. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Tester scores win on resolution to block beef exports from Paraguay (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4548161-tester-scores-win-on-resolution-to-block-beef-exports-from-paraguay/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240321/p70#a240321p70

If you’re like me and trying to make sense of what happened, here’s the statement from the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East in regards to the NDP motion on the war in Gaza that passed at parliament tonight
Parliament votes to end arms exports to Israel in watered-down motion
https://www.

Next.js static export not supporting `next/image` is *wild*.
“Since Next.js supports this static export, it can be deployed and hosted on any web server that can serve HTML/CSS/JS static assets.”
But not images!!
https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/bui…

China Economy Outlook: Exports Surge As Relationship With Russia Grows
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-economy-outlook-exports-trade-war-russia-partnership-us-sanctions-2024-3

China economy outlook: Exports surge as relationship with Russia grows
China's export volumes rose 7.1% in the first two months of 2024, far exceeding a Reuters forecast of 1.9%.

Wind power providing 120% of Danish national electricity demand right now! #StormLouis
Live updates: https://en.energinet.dk

Sources: the US is urging Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands to tighten export controls to China, including stopping engineers from servicing Chinese fabs (Financial Times)
https://t.co/Y3qtEYG7mn

Infrastructure Ministry: 93% of Ukrainian agricultural exports exit Ukraine by sea, river: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/infrastructure-ministry-of.html

"It is the possibility that Jagmeet Singh is the future of Canada and perhaps of a new multicultural North that will be much less sympathetic to the white nationalist project of militant Zionism." @…
#CdnPoli

"Sixteen states sue US over ban on approvals for LNG exports"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

The entirely predictable, and indeed predicted, cost of #Brexit: a £100bn decline in UK exports. Brexit is now estimated to cost the UK around £100bn *per year*, or a 4% decline in GDP. What a disastrous self-inflicted policy! #BrexitReality

I've been using #Scaniverse for fun once or twice, but I'm planning to use it for the next #vfx set supervision task. It exports usdz and you have a textured model of the set for measurements. It does #GaussianSplat

Scaniverse introduces support for 3D Gaussian splatting
Scaniverse started with the ambition to bring 3D content creation to everyone, inspiring users to capture and share the world. To make this experience even more immersive and exciting, we’re excited…

How nice: a plan to collect 1 Mt in macroplastic from the ocean by 2050.
Too bad the USA increased the *yearly* production and export of its primary ingredient by *30 times* that amount in a couple years.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61704<…

EU renews suspension on import duties, quotas on Ukrainian agricultural exports: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/20/eu-renews-suspension.html

UN-Appointed Human Rights Experts Demand Halt of Arms Shipments to #Israel for Violations of Laws of War
https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/appointed-shipments-violati…

UN-Appointed Human Rights Experts Demand Halt of Arms Shipments to Israel for Violations of Laws of War
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - More than thirty independent experts appointed by the Office of the High Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations said Friday that arms exports to Israel must cease immediately, given Israeli violations of the international laws of war and the government's announced intention to invade Rafah in south Gaza, which would create a further humanitarian catastrophe. They pointed to the obligations laid on states by the Third Geneva Convention to ensure respect f…

China is siding with #Europe's right in opposing the new #EU due diligence regulations, which shouldn't be a surprise, as they are natural allies.
If (and its a big if) the law is enforced properly, could have a severe impact on Chinese exports to Europe, including, hopefully, finally dealing with <…

Bloomberg: Russian diesel exports continue to drop amid Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/18/bloomberg-russian-diesel.html

For Valentine's Day, a love not love song from a California ska-punk band celebrating one of English Canada's finest cultural exports.
Skankin' Pickle, "I'm in Love With a Girl Named Spike" (1994)
https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=ahIrTy4WDGM

Offshoring Emissions through Used Vehicle Exports
S. J. Newman, K. Schulte, M. M. Morellini, C. Rahal, D. Leasure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13807 https://…

Offshoring Emissions through Used Vehicle Exports
Policies to reduce transport emissions often overlook the international flow of used vehicles. We quantify the rate at which used vehicles generated CO2 and pollution for all used vehicles exported from Great Britain; a globally leading used vehicle exporter across 2005-2021. Destined for low-middle-income countries, exported vehicles fail roadworthiness standards and, even under extremely optimistic functioning as new assumptions, generate at least 13-53 percent more emissions than scrapped or…

#CanPoli #CdnPoli Canada Politics Poll of the Day! #CPPotD
Are you happy that the Liberal Government "will stop sending arms to Israel”?
Toronto Star: “The Trudeau gove…

China relaxes security review rules for some data exports, exempting data used in activities such as international trade from declaration (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecur…

UK Defense Ministry: Russia's arms exports drop due to war, sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/17/uk-defense-ministry.html

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers – including three Britons – using a UK-made drone. The news only serves to increase pressure on the Tories to ban arms exports to Israel.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/04/0

The drone the IDF used to kill three British aid workers was made in the UK
Israel's IDF killed the World Central Kitchen workers with a strike from a Hermes 450 drone manufactured by UK-based Elbit Systems

Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs
China is heavily subsidizing their EV industry while US and Europe back off from investments. This is a recipe for disaster for manufacturing outside of China. It’s suicidal for the us manufacturers to not be investing more. They are repeating the same mistakes they made during the Japanese takeover of car supremacy in the 1980s

Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs
Europe says it has found evidence that China has been “unfairly” subsidizing its EV exports to Europe. Possible “remedies” include retroactive tariffs.

This is pretty cool. I'm calling #rustlang from #dotnet. That said, there's a lot to think about when it comes to this interop-style code, especially the memory handoff.

pdfannots ("This program extracts annotations (highlights, comments, etc.) from a PDF file, and formats them as Markdown or exports them to JSON.") - praktisch
#pdf

Often we don't get to see this news anymore. Sometimes we ignore it. But it's happening every week, in Europe.
The EU needs to stop exports of components for weapons 'to Central-Asia', which end up in Russia and its arms industry, and then on Ukrainian citizens.

US weapons exports up 50 percent in 2023 as Washington challenges Russia, China (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/us-foreign-arms-sales-russia-china-00138390

Good Morning #Canada
You may not know that Canada is a world leader in the export of Mustard seed. In 2021 Canadian exports totaled $95M (USD), leading Russia ($71.5M), Germany ($31.1M), India ($28.2M), and Poland ($15.2M). Approximately 75% is grown in Saskatchewan.
So why is Subway in Canada removing Mustard as an option from its franchises? There's a conspiracy here and I demand th…

Condiments are getting more competitive. Does yellow mustard still cut the mustard? | CBC News
Swirling rumours about a beloved Canadian condiment have shone a light on what turns out is a competitive sauce market.

Ukraine’s sea exports reach record monthly level since full-scale invasion: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/ukraines-sea-exports.html

National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/…

China’s chip output surges amid growing dominance in legacy chips
US exports control could unintentionally lead to a Chinese dominance of global legacy-chip production, researchers say.

Been hacking on some tracing tools for nats this week, here showing a message going to multiple clients originating from SFO going to NYC into the cluster and into a Leafnode connected to the LON cluster.
Amazing to be able to observe this, it'll show which streams receive messages, mappings, imports/exports, ACL denies and more as well \o/

Finnish Employment Minister Arto Satonen doesn't seem to know what politics is, or strikes, or labour bargaining. Because any action to affect a political decision is politics, so any strike is political. Or maybe he want to restrict the rights of workers to nullify unions and workers
#Finland #Strikes

SAK labour federation launches more strikes next week
Trade unions are organising new political walkouts starting Monday. Most of the nation's exports will be halted for up to two weeks.

From Global Carbon Budget 2023 report. USA per capita emissions remain approx double China's. Despite failing to account for the portion of China's emissions for products exported to US. Real average Chinese per capita CO2 emissions (minus exports) are likely a quarter or less of the typical American's.
Remember this everytime you hear someone moaning about "but China!" wrt emissions reductions. USA can lead the way or shut the fuck up.

Sanctions for show: Russian oil sales to China, India single main driver of Ukraine invasion: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/sanctions-for-show.html

(Thread 1/2) What’s happening in China is really interesting. If we trust their official figures and estimates, the economy was driven by 3 things:
1. Real estate (who’s crashing hard)
2. Consumer spending (who’s in decline, as their population is not growing and aging)
3. Exports (who are threatened by India and South East Asia)
As 1. is crashing, consumers—who put most of their savings in, guess what, real estate—are more conscious about spending, hurting another good…

Can you imagine a ranking on military spending that decided to leave out the US, the largest spender?
Or a analysis on global automobile production that left out #Japan, home to the largest automaker?
Or perhaps a survey on oil exports that left out #SaudiArabia?
They would be useless an…

This is pretty cool. I'm calling #rustlang from #dotnet. That said, there's a lot to think about when it comes to this interop-style code, especially the memory handoff.

ASML reports China represented 49% of its system sales in Q1, while sales from Taiwan more than halved and the US dropped five percentage points to 6% (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

China Is Still ASML’s Top Market Despite US Chip Equipment Curbs
ASML Holding NV’s sales to China were resilient in the first quarter despite curbs on exports of high-end chipmaking equipment to the Asian nation kicking in this year.

Media: Almost 3 quarters of Germany's arms exports in 2024 intended for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/10/media-almost-quarters.html

Bloomberg: Russia plans reduction in diesel exports due to drone attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/bloomberg-russia-plans.html

Ukrenergo: Ukraine plans record electricity exports to 5 countries: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/04/ukrenergo-ukraine-plans.html

Sources: Flexport lost at least $2M/month in 2023 on its air freight deal with Apple, started in late 2022 to ship products from some Asian factories to the US (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/flexports-appl…

Flexport’s Apple Air Freight Deal Has Burned Through Cash
For Flexport, a logistics company billing itself as the future of trade, it’s hard to think of a more impressive client than Apple, the poster child of globalization. Since late 2022, the iPhone maker has been using Flexport’s air freight services to fly products from some of its factories in ...

Reuters: EU to step up checks on grain exports from Ukraine to ease farmers' fears: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/reuters-eu-to.html

Sources: the US asks South Korea to add China chip export restrictions similar to Commerce Department rules, including on chips beyond 14nm and DRAM beyond 18nm (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US Asks South Korea to Toughen Up Export Controls on China Chips
The US is asking South Korea to adopt restrictions on semiconductor technology exports to China similar to those Washington has already implemented, another sign the Biden administration is stepping up efforts to thwart Beijing’s chip ambitions.

US, UK jointly expand sanctions against Russian metals: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/13/us-uk-jointly.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07362 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

The use of trade data in the analysis of global phosphate flows
In this paper we present a new method to trace the flows of phosphate from the countries where it is mined to the countries where it is used in agricultural production. We achieve this by combining data on phosphate rock mining with data on fertilizer use and data on international trade of phosphate-related products. We show that by making adjustments to data on net exports and by estimating weighting factors we can derive the matrix of phosphate flows on the country level to a large degree and…

European Commission proposes to extend duty-free imports from Ukraine until June 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/31/european-commission-proposes.html

European Commission proposes to extend duty-free imports from Ukraine until June 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/31/european-commission-proposes.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02253 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

The Growth, Geography, and Implications of Trade in Digital Products
Despite global efforts to harmonize international trade statistics, our understanding of digital trade and its implications remains elusive. Here, we introduce a novel method to estimate bilateral exports and imports for dozens of sectors starting from the corporate revenue data of large digital firms. This method allows us to provide estimates for digitally ordered and delivered trade involving digital goods (e.g. video games), productized services (e.g. digital advertising), and digital inter…