The Riigikogu has ratified the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which will give European companies the opportunity to operate under the same competition conditions as Canadian firms. 66 members of the Riigikogu voted in favor of the motion and 1 was against, according to a Riigikogu press release. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs…
Compared to July, the level of construction costs in Latvia grew by 0.1% in August. Maintenance and operational costs of machinery and equipment rose by 0.4%, labor remuneration of workers decreased by 0.1%, whereas prices of building materials did not change significantly. Compared to August 2016, construction costs increased by 2.3%. Labor remuneration of workers…
The Belarusian heavy truck manufacturer BelAZ and the electric motors manufacturer OOO Sibelektroprivod signed an agreement on strategic partnership in Novosibirsk. The two companies will continue working together as part of the joint project aimed at creating an electric traction drive for BelAZ dump trucks with the carrying capacity of 90 tons. Apart from that,…
The level of inflation in Ukraine at the end of 2017 may be higher than the current forecast of the National Bank of Ukraine at 9.1%, which may force the NBU to apply a more stringent monetary policy, reads a statement on the central bank’s website referring to Deputy NBU Governor Dmytro Solohub. During a…
According to the official statistics figures, in July-August of the season-2017-2018 Ukraine imported 4.2 thousand tons of rye flour, down 2.1-fold YoY (8.8 thousand tons). At the same time, Belarus supplied almost all volumes of the reporting product on the Ukrainian market. As a reminder, in 2016-2017 MY Ukraine purchased 36.8 thousand tons of rye…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects that Azerbaijan’s GDP growth will be 1% in 2018, according to the “Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update: Sustaining Development Through Public-Private Partnership”. Azerbaijan’s GDP growth rate decreased by 3.8% in 2016. The ADB expects that the recession will continue in 2017, but its pace will slow down. Thus, according…
Economy of Turkmenistan should be based on market relations, the country’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a government meeting. The draft state budget for 2018 was on the agenda of the meeting. The Turkmen president noted that during the draft state budget’s preparation, special attention should be paid to increasing the volume of loan funds…