Amazon among U.S. companies working to counter Trump’s tariff plans

Companies are attempting to avoid any confrontation with U.Sคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. President Donald Trump but want to exert as much influence as they can to dissuade him from tearing up trade agreements or introducing tariffs on a wide swath of imports.Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer and cloud-computing company, which could be hurt by tariffs on items sold through its website and components for its data centres, is discussing industry-wide advertising campaigns and more extensive government lobbying, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Amazon declined to comment.CLOUD PAINIn addition to the steel and aluminium tarif…

China intellectual property filings soar, hard to judge if it plays fair- U.N.

China’s fast growth in intellectual property has led to accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump that it has stolen American ideas, but the head of the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said it was hard to tell.“The reality is a new competitor has arrived,” WIPO Director General Francis Gurry told a news conference in Geneva.

“We will just observe what occurs now but I would say that the commercial, economic and geopolitical reality that we must take cognizance of is that China has arrived as a major technological competitor.”At current rates China will overtake the United States to become the biggest source of international patent applications in the WIPO system within three years, WIPO said.The top filers of patent applications at WIPO in 2017 were…

Fashion and luxury- Generative AI facing ethical, legal challenges

The Hyères debate, exciting though it was, wasn’t altogether reassuring, because the road towards fencing in this disruptive new technology is looking tortuous. The EU is in the process of passing new legislation in this area, the IA Act, which was approved on first reading by the European Parliament in June 2023, and is set to become the world’s first law of its kind. It was proposed by the European Commission, and is currently in the final stages of discussion between the EU Council and Parliament, with a view to reaching a common position. “[The IA Act] is a harmonisation effort, it contains a set of rules that must be harmonised at EU level to ensure that artificial intelligence technologies are safe, that they are consistent with European values, and that they can also foste…

France to go ahead with digital tax this year regardless of possible international deal

France offered in January to suspend until the end of the year instalments of its tax on big digital companies’ income in France while an international deal to re-write the rules of cross-border taxation was negotiated this year.”Never has a digital tax been more legitimate and more necessary,” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told journalists on a conference call, adding such companies were doing better than most during the coronavirus crisis.

Nearly 140 countries are negotiating the first major rewriting of international tax rules in more than a generation, to take better account of the rise of big tech companies that often book profit in low-tax countries.However, the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak has left finance ministries more focused on saving their economies than ov…

Gucci just can’t keep up with Brunello Cucinelli and Hermes

On Tuesday, Gucci-owner Kering SA said third-quarter sales excluding currency movements and mergers and acquisitions fell 9%, worse than the 6% decline expected by analysts. That’s in stark contrast with Hermes International SCA, which beat estimates and said it saw no signs of demand waning among its well-heeled clientele in any of its markets. In the same vein, last week billionaire-favorite Brunello Cucinelli SpA upgraded its revenue forecast for the third time this year.The dichotomy can be explained by sharply different customer bases.

Confidence has crumbled among the simply affluent in the US and in Europe. Meanwhile, the uber-wealthy have continued to spend. That’s corresponded with a shift in fashion trends from ostentation to more refined elegance. Hermes and ca…

In New York, one non-profit looks to combat textile waste

Every day, 3,000 pounds (some 1,350 kilos) of scraps arrive at the group’s massive warehouse in Brooklyn — part of a huge complex that used to belong to the US Army, according to Fabscrap founder Jessica Schreiber.The organization has established partnerships with about 250 ready-to-wear labels and several haute couture houses — and the waste they collect is representative of that variety.

You see everything in the warehouse piles: from luxury pieces by the likes of Oscar de la Renta or Marc Jacobs, to mainstream retail labels like J.Crew, to scraps from the workshops of up-and-coming designers.Last year, Fabscrap picked up a total of 150,000 pounds of fabric.But Schreiber says there is a wide potential to do more, as that number only accounts for a third of the textile waste ge…

Italy’s fashion leaders urge Rome to lift restrictions on industry

“Fashion is a seasonal industry, and certain dates are not compressible. Not reopening shortly would mean giving up almost a year’s turnover,” said Carlo Capasa, the chairman of Italy’s National Fashion Chamber (CNMI), in an online interview on the website of daily Corriere della Sera.Current lockdown measures in Italy – the country with the third highest number of confirmed cases after the United States and Spain – have been imposed until May 3.คำพูดจาก ทดลองใช้ สูตรสล็อต

The government has not disclosed how and when it will start easing a nationwide ban on business activities deemed as non-essential.Fashion and textile plants throughout the country have shut as they do not fall …

Lalique buys a struggling Zurich-based silk manufacturer

The Swiss group has signed an agreement to acquire the Fabric Frontline brand from Swiss company Trudel Fashion, it said in a statement, without disclosing the amount of the transaction.Founded over 40 years ago, Fabric Frontline manufactures high-end silk accessories and has become known for its scarves thanks to its traditional printing process and high-quality fabrics produced in northern Italy, said the group.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

“At its peak, Fabric Frontline worked with fashion houses such as Hermès, Chanel, Dior, Nina Ricci and Vivienne Westwood,” said Lalique.In June, Trudel Fashion, the brand’s owner since 2012, announced that the brand would cease operations l…

Retail needs help as store vacancy rates grew in Q1

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling for extending the business rates holiday for retail until 2022 to help reduce costs as industry figures show more than 5,000 stores have closed during the coronavirus crisis to date. One in seven stores were vacant across the country at the end of March.Local Data Company (LDC) figures complied for the BRC show the overall vacancy rate rose to 14.1% over the first three months of the year, up from 13.7% in the final three months of 2020คำพูดจาก เกมสล็อตทดลองเล่น. Vacancy rates have been increasing for three years and the trend has accelerated during the pandemic, it noted.คำพูดจาก

U.S. consumer spending, inflation moderate in February

The highly contagious virus, which causes a respiratory illness called COVID-19, is wreaking havoc on the economy, prompting the Federal Reserve to take extraordinary measures and the U.S. Congress to assemble a record $2 trillion (1.6 trillion pounds) stimulusคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Economists say the economy is already in recession.The government reported on Thursday that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rocketed to a record 3.28 million last week, eclipsing the previous record of 695,000 set in 1982.

“Social distancing measures taken in response to the fast-spreading coronavirus along with extreme financial market volatility will take a …