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Morocco’s OCP welcomes US cut in customs duty on phosphate fertilizers

Morocco’s OCP, the world’s largest phosphates producer, welcomed the US decision to cut the customs duty on phosphates-based fertilizers from 19.97 to 2.12%. The US decision will be applied from November this year to the next revision in the fourth quarter next year. OCP said its revenue stood at 61.03 billion dirhams ($6 billion) by […]

Germany Urges Tunisia to Repatriate Failed Asylum Seekers

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged visiting Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to speed up the process of repatriating the Tunisians who failed to obtain the status of refugee in Germany after a rejected Tunisian awaiting deportation killed 12 people at a Berlin market in December. Weakened by her open-door migrant policy, Merkel met Chahed in […]

France’s National Academy of Medicine & Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco step up cooperation ties

The Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco and France’s National Academy of Medicine have agreed to enhance partnership between the two institutions and foster cooperation ties between the two countries’ hospitals, medical schools and research institutes. The agreement was inked Wednesday in Paris by Permanent Secretary of Morocco’s Academy Abdeljalil Lahjomri and President of the […]