(MENAFN - Baystreet.ca)
One economic sign in this country paled in the last month of 2020 amid sharply lower auto sales.
Statistics Canada says wholesale trade fell 1.3% in December to $66.5 billion, for the first downward reading since April.
Vehicles are one of the largest categories of wholesale trade, and the nation s number crunchers say auto sales, as well as car and truck parts and accessories, were down 4.3% to $10.7 billion, the lowest level since July.
Despite the monthly dip, the agency says that wholesale trade was still up compared with the pre-pandemic levels of February 2020, amid a 12.2% surge in sales of building materials and supplies.
(MENAFN)According to the portal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Mostafa Ayati, Director of Transit Bureau of Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), was appionted for the third consecutive time as a member of the TIR Executive Board (TIRExB).
TIR Convention is considered one of the most successful international transport conventions and is the only universal Customs transit system in existence.
The latest TIRExB members had been appointed in the 74th session of the TIR Administrative Committee that had been held on 11 February in Geneva for its term of office for the years 2021-2022.
With Mostafa Ayati, the European Commission (EC), Austria, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Italy, Uzbekistan, and the Netherlands are also characterized at the TIRExB that managed and gives support in the application of the TIR procedure at the national and international levels.
Draghi formally accepted the mandate on Friday evening after meeting President Sergio Mattarella. The former ECB chief had received the task on February 3, following the collapse of the previous government led by Giuseppe Conte after a junior ally pulled out of the coalition, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.The
(MENAFN - UkrinForm) Verkhovna Rada Chairman Dmytro Razumkov has signed the law On the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (No. 3087-d) and submitted it to the president for signature, the parliament s press service has reported.
The document stipulates that the Bureau of Economic Security will be established as a central executive government body to counteract offenses encroaching on the functioning of the state economy.
The law defines the tasks and powers of this body, control over its activities, legal status, duties and responsibilities of employees, as well as the basis of cooperation of the Bureau with other institutions, enterprises, and organizations.
Accordingly, 9 out of the 10 indicators of QET of economic and business activity tracked by the industry body have shown positive trends in January.Out