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Morocco’s OCP criticizes US tariff hikes on fertilizer imports

Morocco’s fertilizers and phosphates giant OCP criticized the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) to increase customs duty on Moroccan fertilizers from 14.21% to 16.81%. This new rate, announced after a review of the countervailing duty (CVD), applies retroactively as the final tariff rate for our 2022 imports into the United States, OCP […]

Macky Sall orders Premier to curb illegal migration to Canary Islands right from home

Senegalese President Macky Sall Wednesday November 8 instructed the country’s Prime Minister to curtail all illegal migration attempts via the sea to the Spanish autonomous territory of the Canary Islands, after hundreds of Senegalese, including women and children, were rescued over the week-end off Mauritania’s coasts. “The Head of State referred to the National Strategy […]

Egypt: reforming the financial sector before 2014

Chairman Sherif Samy of the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (EFSA) has stated that the financial sector will be revised before the end of the year in order to ease and fasten the transactions. Capital markets in Egypt suffered deeply from the revolution which began in 2011 forcing several foreign portfolio managers to withdraw their money […]