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The EU SME Strategy one year on: Challenges and Opportunities

​The EU SME Strategy, published exactly one year ago by the European Commission aimed at helping small businesses leading the twin transition, reducing regulatory burdens and red tape, supporting market access and entrepreneurship, and improving access to financing. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening the viability of European SMEs due to serious disruptions of global supply chains, transport and travel restrictions, and the collapse in consumption and consumer confidence. The EU SME Strategy one year on: Challenges and Opportunities” online...

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MEPs: Put a carbon price on certain EU imports to raise global climate ambition

All products under the EU Emissions Trading System should be included Revenue to be used to step up EU support for the objectives of the Green Deal The mechanism must not be misused to further trade protectionism To raise global climate ambition and prevent ‘carbon leakage’, the EU must place a carbon price on certain imports from less climate-ambitious countries, say MEPs. On Wednesday, Parliament adopted a resolution on a WTO-compatible EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) with 444 votes...

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Osborne Clarke | The road to net zero: European opportunities for US investors and corporates

Discussions on climate change policy are accelerating this year as countries prepare for COP26 which will be taking place in the United Kingdom in November 2021. The next few months will see a whole series of concerted actions around the globe in the run up to the conference at which over 30,000 delegates are expected. This will be the most significant conference on climate change since COP21 in Paris in 2015, which led to the Paris Agreement – and which...

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CLA | Newest Guidance on PPP and the Employee Retention Credit

Key insights Evaluate employee retention credit eligibility prior to filing your PPP forgiveness application. IRS issues guidance on surplus wages used for PPP forgiveness. IRS issues guidance to help clarify whether a government order constituted a partial shutdown. Claiming the employee retention credit could have an impact on your PPP loan. We’re breaking down what you need to know about the latest IRS guidance. Background on new guidance around PPP loans and the employee retention credit On March 1, the IRS released Notice 2021-20, which...

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Datacolor | How to Manage Color in the Age of Remote Work

As the pandemic continues to keep millions of workers across the globe out of their traditional work environments, brands and mills strive to maintain production quality while adapting to the unique constraints of working remotely. Textile supply chains traverse continents in ordinary times. Today, those with a comprehensive color management strategy, anchored by advanced digital tools, are well-positioned to meet the extraordinary challenges of the moment. To keep production running without delays, remote retail and apparel workers need the equipment, software...

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ACG | Tips For Better Crisis Communication

Companies can never be too prepared for crisis management; by the time a crisis hits it is too late to begin preparing! Communication is one of the most important dimensions of crisis management because of the natural human tendency to turn to fear and panic when a crisis hits. Communication gets the necessary information out to the people who need it so they can take action and resolve the crisis as fast as possible. Unsuccessful or poor communication during...

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Via acquires Remix to create the first end-to-end TransitTech solution for cities and transit agencies

March 10, 2020, NEW YORK | Acquisition brings together two category leaders to establish a complete technology platform that powers equitable, accessible, and efficient transportation for communities across the globe. Via, the leader in TransitTech, announced today that it has acquired Remix, the premier collaborative mapping platform for transportation planning and decision-making. The acquisition brings together world class technology solutions to fully support the transportation community in multimodal planning, scheduling, and operating on-demand and fixed route transit, paratransit, and school buses. Remix...

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IMF | Remaking the Post-Covid World

To reverse widening inequality, keep a tight rein on automation The industrialized world, especially the United States, suffered severe economic ills even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Unless we recognize them now, we are unlikely to produce solutions. Chief among these problems is the nature of economic growth, which has become much less shared since the 1980s. Wider inequality in much of the industrialized world; the disappearance of good, high-paying, secure jobs; and the decline in the real wages of less-educated workers...

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Chapter News, Trade & TTIP Related

EU and U.S. agree to suspend all tariffs linked to the Airbus and Boeing disputes

The EU and U.S. agreed today to suspend all retaliatory tariffs on EU and U.S. exports imposed in the Airbus and Boeing disputes for a four-month period. The suspension allows both sides to focus on resolving this long-running dispute. It provides an important boost to EU exporters, since the U.S. had been authorised to raise tariffs on $7.5 billion of EU exports to the U.S. Similarly, EU tariffs will be suspended on some $4 billion worth of U.S. exports...

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Tradewind Finance Welcomes Daniel Najman & Greg Champion as their New VP of Sales in the U.S.

Tradewind Finance Welcomes Daniel Najman as Vice President of Sales based in Miami, FL Tradewind Finance is pleased to announce that Daniel Najman has joined the company as Vice President of Sales based in Miami, Florida. Najman brings years of experience in trade credit insurance and trade logistics to the role, as well as an extensive track record of dealings with Brazil and other international markets. As VP Sales, Najman will help expand the company’s client base, leveraging his industry...

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