China, with 40.5 million tons, and the European Union, with about 12.3 million tons, rank as the largest apple producers in the world. Production volumes correspond to projections of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the 2020-21 cycle. Then they are in that classification: the United
The demand for gold jewelry would grow 5.3% in 2021, to 1,858 tonnes, according to projections published by the Australian government. With this, the revision reflects a higher-than-expected demand for Chinese gold jewelry in the first quarter of 2021. On the one hand, in the United States, the
Accelerated digitization benefited multinational technology companies, such as Alphabet, Tencent, and Amazon, who increased their assets abroad. For hardware and IT companies, the increase in international revenue (10%) did not lead to an increase in cross-border acquisitions, as the number of deals announced in the second quarter of
The Group of 20 (G20) economies implemented 227 trade remedies from October 2020 to May 2021. Likewise, that amount represents 79% of all non-Covid-19 trade measures recorded in a joint OECD, WTO and UNCTAD report. At the same time, these measures peaked in 2020 and the average number
A report released by the United Nations (UN) recounts and takes stock of the results of the Televisa Law in Mexico. The case is dealt with in the 2021 Regional Human Development Report. Overall, Televisa is a leading media company in the Spanish-speaking world, a major cable operator,
International banking and trade weathered the global recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic well, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) concluded. The second quarter of 2020 saw the largest quarterly contraction in world economic activity since the Second World War. However, according to the BIS, for the year