Insights and Stories on Sanctions

Engine maker Cummins says expects ‘some impact’ in Russia

Feb. 28, 2022 at 5:26 pm CST

Reuters — Diesel engine maker Cummins Inc. expects “some impact” to its business in Russia and is analyzing and preparing for current and anticipated sanctions, the U.S. truck engine maker said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. Many firms have idled operations in Russia after it invaded Ukraine last week, […]

Equipment maker Buhler distances self from Ukraine invasion

Feb. 24, 2022 at 3:42 pm CST

By Staff

Yara to stop buying potash from Belarus due to sanctions

Jan. 10, 2022 at 1:40 pm CST

By Terje Solsvik Victoria Klesty

World Food Programme starts distributing food in Venezuela

Jul. 7, 2021 at 8:23 pm CDT

By Reuters

Potash partnership with BHP ‘not our focus,’ Nutrien executive says

Jun. 22, 2021 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Nutrien to further bump up potash output

Jun. 21, 2021 at 7:52 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian fertilizer producer Nutrien said Monday it would boost its 2021 potash output by 500,000 tonnes, after the European Union and others imposed new trade sanctions on Belarus. Nutrien’s increase takes its potash sales outlook this year to a record-high range of 13.3 million to 13.8 […]

By Rod Nickel

U.N. expert says ‘some are starving’ in North Korea

Jun. 10, 2020 at 12:38 pm CDT

Geneva | Reuters — A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at “widespread food shortages and malnutrition” in North Korea, made worse by a nearly five-month border closure with China and strict quarantine measures against COVID-19. Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the […]

By stephanie-nebehay

Huawei executive loses key court argument in fight against extradition

May. 27, 2020 at 2:17 pm CDT

Toronto/Vancouver | Reuters — Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has lost a key aspect of the trial on her extradition to the United States, a Canadian court announced on Wednesday. Meng, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in December 2018 in Vancouver on a warrant issued by U.S. authorities, who […]

By Moira Warburton Tessa Vikander

Iraq replaces state grain agency’s chief

Oct. 8, 2019 at 4:11 am CDT

Baghdad/Dubai | Reuters — Iraq, a major Middle East wheat and rice importer, has replaced the head of its state grain buying agency, government sources and a document showed on Tuesday. Naeem al-Maksousi was replaced by Hassanein Mahdi Elwan, a document reviewed by Reuters showed. The reason for the replacement, […]

By Reuters

Oil sanctions on Venezuela could benefit Canada

Feb. 1, 2019 at 7:41 pm CST

How Canada benefits from the oil sanctions the United States plans to place on Venezuela is contingent on the country’s ability to move its Western Canadian Select crude oil to U.S. refineries, said two oil industry experts. As part of an effort to effect regime change in Venezuela, U.S. President […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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