Japanese Gov’t Mulls Over Radical Change To Inheritance Tax Policy

By: Ainsley Brown In a move to boost its faltering economy, the Japanese government is considering a radical alteration of its inheritance tax regime. The policy, if implemented and if it has the desired effect, could see trillions of yen being transferred from elderly savings conscious Japanese to their more free-spending children or grandchildren. The policy basically boils down to

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Canada, A Third Party In WTO Panel On Chinese Raw Materials Export Restrictions

By: Ainsley Brown Canada now joins a score of other nations, including Brazil, Japan, Norway, India and Turkey, as third parties in a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel on China’s export restrictions on certain raw materials. A WTO panel is the third step established under the Dispute Resolution Understanding (DSU) – the DSU being the lynchpin that transformed the General

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GreenTech War: Japan, China, Lithium, Batteries and Bolivia

By: Ainsley Brown A potential GreenTech war is brewing between Japan and China, location Bolivia. The salt flats of Bolivia´s Salar De Uyuni, where most recent James Bond movie was shot (Quantum of Solace) seems like the most unlikely place for  a green technology war, much less one between Japan  and China.  However, it very much is. Both countries through

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