Sentences with phrase «new illegal trade»
A new illegal trade «alliance» Yesterday, in an effort to chip away at the illegal timber trade, which is a key driver of deforestation along with agricultural expansion, a coalition of businesses, paper organizations and international groups banded together to form the Forest Legality Alliance.
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Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.
The London Metal Exchange (LME) recently introduced new regulations to stamp out the trade in metals from illegal mines.
Many economists had expected prices to start creeping up last year in response to President Trump's nationalist «America first» agenda, complete with new tariffs, strong crackdown on illegal immigration, cancellation of U.S. participation in the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) and a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The illegal drug trade on the dark web is growing rapidly, despite authorities shutting down major market sites like AlphaBay, as crime gangs diversify and seek new clients online, a report by two European Union agencies warned on Tuesday.
The recent announcement by the World Trade Organization stating that China's export policies for REEs was illegal should have breathed new life into the non-Chinese space and it really didn't.
In August 1998 the NCAA adopted new rules governing the diameter and length - to - weight ratios of nonwood bats, prompting a restraint - of - trade suit by Easton, some of whose bats would have been rendered illegal.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara applauded a new Supreme Court decision on insider trading, after the court found that a trading tip «gift» can be used by a secondary person and still be considered an illegal use of that information for personal benefit.
Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants are heading for a rock crusher in New York City's Central Park to demonstrate the state's commitment to smashing the illegal ivory trade.
ALBANY, NY (AP)-- Former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who cracked down on insider abuses on Wall Street, said Wednesday that the new federal push against potential insider trading has the hallmarks of important work, if the innovative approach can prove the communication is illegNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who cracked down on insider abuses on Wall Street, said Wednesday that the new federal push against potential insider trading has the hallmarks of important work, if the innovative approach can prove the communication is illegnew federal push against potential insider trading has the hallmarks of important work, if the innovative approach can prove the communication is illegal.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara applauded a new Supreme Court decision on insider trading on Tuesday, after the court found that a trading tip «gift» can be used by a secondary person and still be considered an illegal use of that information for personal benefit.
The United States, Peru, China, Mozambique and United Kingdom have passed new, or bolstered existing, legislation designed to enhance efforts to combat illegal wildlife trade and reduce risks to security.
They have just published descriptions of the new species in the journal Zootaxa, along with an analysis of Manila's illegal pet and bush - meat trade in the journal Biological Conservation.
These species were recently featured in WWF's Magical Mekong Report, which highlighted the problems of discovering new species via illegal trade.
* Illegal ivory trade receives a blow from a new genetic map of elephants across Africa.
The tentacles of the trade crisscross the globe, leaving no country untouched, not even the United States, as evidenced by the July 2009 arrest of a New York rabbi who has been charged with arranging illegal transplants in this country by bringing in poor Israelis to supply kidneys.
Gangs of looters, numbering sometimes in the hundreds, have pilfered cylinder seals, sculptures, urns, bronze tools, clay tablets with cuneiform writing, and even reliefs carved into walls — all to supply an illegal international trade in antiquities that stretches from Taiwan to New York.
A genetic investigation into the illegal trade of sailfin dragons has unearthed a surprise: a new species of the rainbow - colored lizards that resemble small dinosaurs.
Many strategies have been developed to try to label legitimate products and prevent illegal trade — but these tags are often too easy to fake, are unreliable, or cost too much to implement, according to MIT researchers who have developed a new alternative.
And in the regions where they are being introduced, the illegal trade represents a likely source of new alien species to disrupt the local ecosystems and, in the case of venomous snakes, pose a potential threat to humans.»
People in New York City's Times Square will witness plumes of pulverized bone erupt as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes one ton of confiscated ivory Friday to protest the illegal poaching of African elephants for the ivory trade.
New study reveals scale of persistent illegal tiger trade.
The film stars Joseph - Gordon Levitt and revolves around Philippe Petit's famous 1974 illegal walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
That film would be «Man On Wire,» James Marsh's crisp, witty and ultimately very moving documentary about Philippe Petit, the charismatic French performance artist who in 1974 committed the so - called «artistic crime of the century» — an illegal tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the New York's World Trade Center.
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high - wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, «the artistic crime of the century.»
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HSI released shocking video footage of dog meat death pits in Nagaland, India to mark the launch of a major new campaign to end India's brutal and illegal dog meat trade.
Grand Theft Auto 5's ever - growing online component GTA Online has outlined its plans moving into 2017, which includes new stunt races, game modes, vehicles, and missions — the latter of which will involve players at some stage fighting «for supremacy in the illegal arms trade and wage war with the latest in high - powered military hardware.»
After leading the hunt for objects looted from the Iraq Museum, Manhattan assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos — classical scholar, Marine Corps Reserves colonel, and middleweight boxer — is setting up New York's first task force on the illegal antiquities trade Kelly Devine Thomas
But here in New Zealand, an almost mythically idyllic maritime country at the edge of the South Pacific, what's driving a rare and tiny dolphin to extinction is not illegal international trade or Asian superstitions.
The role of organize crime in the trade in endangered species, as well as how illegal fishing is driving iconic species towards extinction, is nothing new on the pages of TreeHugger, but there are several new graphic examples of this coming across our virtual desk today.
In its new report, Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade and Fraudulent Registration of Ivory Tusks, EIA reveals widespread abuse of loopholes in the Japanese government's tusk registration system.
WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for the closure of Japan's domestic ivory market after new evidence of illegal trade in ivory tusks was linked to the Ministry of Environment's tusk registration scheme.
It's easy to question the efficacy of government action given the strength of the black market, especially when it comes to illegal wildlife trade, but remarkably, the new direction seems to be taking hold here.
So the best outcome of this new test may lie in the creation of indisputable certificates of legitimacy for historic ivory pieces, which make the difference between legal and illegal trade transparent for buyers.
Good news and bad news coming out of the think tank Chatham House today: According to their new report, Illegal Logging and Related Trade, the amount of timber chopped down and produced illegally has fallen 22 % since 2002
Startup companies use ICOs, which are usually Ethereum - based, to raise capital money through the issuance of new cryptocurrencies or digital tokens that can be traded online are now officially illegal in China.
According to a new article by CNBC, the South Korean prime minister Lee Nak - Yeon is the latest to take up the anti-Bitcoin mantle, recently stated in a cabinet meeting that the digital currency could lead children to illegal activities like drug trading.