The United States once again to defer the implementation of the EU trade sanctions against products
Xinhua in Brussels, on April 22nd: the commissioner of European Commission responsible for trade Catherine Ashton on 22nd said on the same day the United States had decided to postpone the implementation of the EU’s trade sanctions, in which the EU was agreed to continue to trade dispute over beef consultations to find a more viable solution. Ashton day with the U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk after the telephone communications, issued a statement saying the two sides agreed on long-drawn-out issue of beef trade disputes to continue to maintain high-level consultation.
Ukraine’s natural gas exports to Europe in the decrease sharply
In KIEV, on April 22nd (Xinhua Mu Xiaoming) Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine issued a statement on 22nd, said after the first quarter of this year, Ukraine’s natural gas exports to Europe amounted to 17.6 billion cubic meters, less than the same period last year in a decrease of 18.1 billion cubic meters, up to 50.7 percent of decline. Notice said that the main reason leading to the decline in the volume of gas was for a reduction of imports of European consumers of natural gas. Ukraine, Europe’s second-largest natural gas transmission system, and the annual gas capacity of was more than 140 billion cubic meters.
Putin urged Russia to speed up bank lending to the real economy
MOSCOW, on April 22nd (Xinhua Zhao Jialin) on 22nd, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow attended the meeting of the government’s economic problem and urged the country to accelerate the commercial banks to provide loans to the real economy. He said that the support from the state for banks and the progress of lending would be linked. According to Itar-Tass it was reported by Putin that Russian commercial banks to the size of its lending of the real economy and citizens should not be less than the amount of state aid funds, and commercial bank lending rates may not be higher 3 percentage points than the refinancing rate of Central Bank of Russia.
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