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The Export-Import Bank provides financing and other services to help foreign companies buy US products like Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. Boeing 787 via www.shutterstock.com

Why Congress should keep the imperiled Export‑Import Bank

James P. Howard II, University of Baltimore

The more than 80-year-old credit agency is set to expire at the end of the month if Congress does not act to keep the profitable bank alive.
Car makers pay close attention to the emissions regulations in the countries they export to. Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA/AAP

Could Australia become a dumping ground for high‑emission vehicles?

Anna Mortimore, Griffith University

Unlike many countries, Australia does not have mandatory greenhouse emissions standards for cars - meaning that manufacturers are free to sell their least efficient, most polluting vehicles here.
Over half of Australia’s imported goods come from the Asia Pacific, which has 78 million child labourers, including these three in a Bangladesh balloon factory. EPA/Abir Abdhullah

Global supply chains link us all to shame of child and forced labour

Martijn Boersma, University of Technology Sydney

The fragmentation of global production has dramatically increased the length and complexity of supply chains. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that more than…

Related Topics

  1. Automotive industry
  2. Carbon emissions
  3. Child labour
  4. Emissions Reduction Fund
  5. Energy efficiency
  6. Environmental regulation
  7. Forced labour
  8. Global supply chains
  9. Labour
  10. Supply chains

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