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Barefoot and empowered: NZ’s link to solar grandmas

From a village in India, New Zealand-born 2018 Hillary Laureate Meagan Fallone is bringing solar electricity to some the poorest people in the most remote corners of the world reports Farah Hancock for Newsroom.

Manufacturing Exit from China to Dodge US Duties Gains Pace

With U.S. levies on $200 billion of Chinese products set to balloon to 25% in 2019, companies on the mainland making everything from car parts to cameras are lining up other production facilities across Southeast Asia reports Angus Whitley for IndustryWeek.

Source An IndustryWeek release

Brexit trade minister reveals UK is set to SECURE trade deals that WILL replace EU trade

A BREXIT trade minister rubbished claims that Britain will struggle to replicate its trading relationship with the EU after Brexit with other countries around the world, insisting that trade consultations had already been opened with "large-scale" deals on the horizon.

Source/ReadMore A Sunday Express release

Fox launches ambitious new Export Strategy to boost British Business

The strategy is set to help Wales become a world-leading export nation, boosting productivity, wages and job creation across the country

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Source/ReadMore A Gov.uk release

UK exports to non EU countries continue to outstrip EU

UK exports of goods and services to the rest of the world were higher than UK exports to the EU for ninth year running, ONS figures published today (Tuesday 31 July) confirm.

Source A UK.gov release

In the UKvSchools are banning dropping kids off in cars–to save kids’ lives

As research links cars with pollution and traffic injuries, kids and educators call for walking, biking, and busing to school in the U.K reports Eillie Anzilotti for Fast Company.

Source/ReadMore A Fast Company release

Trump expresses hope for 'extraordinary relationship' with Vladimir Putin

Trump says 'no reason' to believe Russia hacked US election. US President Donald Trump said he sees no reason to believe that Moscow hacked the 2016 US presidential election to help him win, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin “was extremely strong and powerful in his denial".

Source/ReadMore A EuroNews release

Canada announces billions in retaliatory tariffs against US

Canada announced billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs against the US today in a tit-for-tat response to the Trump administration's duties on Canadian steel and aluminum.

Source/ReadMore The NZHerald

Trump jabbed first, and now world hits back in trade fight

"We oppose the act of extreme pressure and blackmail by swinging the big stick of trade protectionism," a spokesman for China's Commerce Ministry …

Source/ReadMore NZHerald

The video Trump showed to Kim promising a future of skyscrapers, dodgems and pineapple

Watch: the video Trump showed to Kim promising a future of skyscrapers, dodgems and pineapple by Euronews.

Source/ReadMore EuroNews

Trump and Kim meet - view their handshake

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have met for an historic summit in Singapore today.

Source/ReadMore RadioNZ release

US driving wedge between allies over tariffs

The United States has been singled out by some of its closest allies over the imposition of tariffs that they warn will undermine open trade and weaken confidence in the global economy.