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U.K. Signs Continuity Trade Deal With Mexico, Keeps EU Benefits
The U.K. signed a continuity trade deal with Mexico, its 31st-largest trading partner, preserving the benefits of the accord it had with the country through European Union membership. The deal follows similar roll-over agreements with countries such as Canada, Singapore and Vietnam, as Britain seeks to maintain the tariff-free trade it enjoyed as part of the EU. It has now signed deals with 58 countries, covering about 15% of its total trade.
Intense talks on a post-Brexit free-trade agreement with the EU which accounts for half of U.K. trade are ongoing, as are discussions with the U.S., Britain’s largest single-country trading partner. Striking deals is a top priority for the British government, as it seeks to prove the benefits of having an independent trade policy outside the EU.
The U.K. and Mexico will start talks in 2021 on an improved trade agreement which will go “much further” than the current deal, the U.K.’s Department for International Trade said in a statement. That will “allow our two countries to go much further in areas such as data, digital trade, investment, intellectual property and services,” International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said.
The U.K. is also hoping to accede to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a group of 11 countries including Australia, Chile and Japan. The U.K.-Mexico continuity deal is the seventh agreement Britain has struck with a member of CPTPP.
“It’s another really important stepping stone toward the U.K. joining CPTPP,” Truss said of the Mexico agreement. “I look forward to making our application to do just that early next year.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/u-k-signs-continuity-trade-deal-with-mexico-keeps-eu-benefits-1.1536757
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GTMO845 US Navy Beech appeared in it's customary position over Bahamas heading nw and on ground at Ft. Lauderdale
SAM325 USAF G5 departed JBA and on ground at Miami Int'l
ok last one of these w/o cap-kinda loses it's efficacy without them
Will keep watch and save ones going forward to post later when this clears up
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Will try it later at end of a bread for a test.
AF2 USAF VIP C-32A on ground Monroe County Airport-Bloomington, IN
"Heading to Indiana with @SecAzar & @CDCDirector to visit Catalent, a @moderna_tx
partner, for a tour of their vaccine manufacturing facility & a vaccine distribution roundtable. We’re continuing to move at Warp Speed to deliver a safe & effective vaccine to millions of Americans!"
https://twitter.com/mike_pence
SAM379 USAF C-40B east from Scott AFB (this AC has been used by KANSAS and the State Dept. in the past) not hanging around either over 500 kts ground speed
Fed joins global club of peers in climate change fight
The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Tuesday it has joined an international group of central banks focused on climate change risk, a signal that the Fed could move to incorporate the impacts of global warming into its regulatory writ. The Fed’s membership in the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) comes after a yearlong collaboration, the Fed said. It had been the only major global central bank besides the Reserve Bank of India that was not a member of the NGFS.
“As we develop our understanding of how best to assess the impact of climate change on the financial system, we look forward to continuing and deepening our discussions with our NGFS colleagues from around the world,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in a statement announcing the move.
For years, the Fed has stayed on the sidelines as other central banks pushed to use their regulatory and research clout to mitigate the effects of global warming, including potentially abrupt price changes from climate-related disasters that could reverberate through financial markets. But that has been changing recently. Last month, the Fed included climate change for the first time in its regular assessment of financial stability vulnerabilities.
Powell has said that making sure the financial system is “resilient” against climate change fits with the Fed’s congressionally assigned mandates. But doing so could be politically fraught. Republican President Donald Trump has called climate change a “hoax,” and he exited the Paris Accord that Democratic predecessor President Barack Obama had signed on to.
Democratic President-elect Joe Biden has said he will rejoin the climate pact. Last week, 47 Republican lawmakers, including about a third of the House financial services committee that helps oversee the Fed, wrote to Powell urging him not to join the group, raising concerns that climate-oriented regulations could make it difficult for oil and gas companies to access capital.
On Tuesday, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, a Democrat, said he expects “further concrete steps” from the Fed on climate change, including using tools like stress testing.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-climate/update-2-fed-joins-global-club-of-peers-in-climate-change-fight-idUSL1N2IV1AR
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AF2 USF VIP C-32A departed Bloomington, IN-Monroe County Airport east back to JBA after event.
"Thank you to @GovHolcomb for your leadership over the last 10 months and thank you to Catalent, a @moderna_tx partner, for your hard work in manufacturing a vaccine that will help save American lives! This is a day of Great Hope and a day of Great Promise!"
https://twitter.com/mike_pence
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SAM276 USAF C-32A on approach for JBA from Paris, France-Le Bourget Airport
This is/has been used as Primary AF2. Pence is using 99-0003 today and is about 25 minutes away from touchdown at JBA from Bloomington.
This AC departed JBA on 1212 with a ground stop at Shannon, Ireland for refuel and crew change. Departed for Tel Aviv and arrived on 1213
Departed Tel Aviv on 1214 after a 25 hour ground stop nw to Paris and then an overnight and depart earlier today.
The last trip this AC took was as SAM248-it's itinerary is below
This AC departed JBA on 1205 with a ground stop at Elmendorf JB Anchorage, AK
Ezra Cohen-Watnick twatted a DoD pic of the AC on the runway with a F-22 raptor landing in background
Then continued on to Atsugi NAF on 1206 as MC8248 for a ground stop.
On to Jakarta, Indonesia-Bandar Udara Int'l Airport
Departed on 1208 still as MC8248 ne for ground stop at Manila, P.I. then depart east to Hawaii-Hickam AFB for an overnight.
Depart Hickam on 1210 for JBA
SAM340 USAF G5 departed Peterson AFB after an overnight.
This AC departed JBA yesterday with a ground stop at Offutt prior to Peterson arrival.
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