Bombardier on Thursday became the latest planemaker to disclose an exemption from Canadian sanctions on Russian titanium, as Canada defended its decision to grant a partial reprieve from recent measures imposed over the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, Reuters first reported that Airbus had won a waiver from a new Canadian ban on Russian titanium, … Read more
The Biden administration is considering blacklisting a number of Chinese semiconductor firms linked to Huawei Technologies Co. after the telecom giant notched a significant technological breakthrough last year, people familiar with the matter said. Such a move would mark another escalation in a US campaign to ringfence and curtail Beijing’s AI and semiconductor ambitions. It … Read more
The United States targeted Iranian and Houthi commanders and a vessel that shipped more than $100 million in Iranian commodities to businesses in China in sanctions announced on Tuesday. Mohammad Reza Falahzadeh, deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), and Ibrahim al-Nashiri, a member of Yemen’s Houthi militia, were designated under the … Read more
