Canada Outgrew the OECD Area in Q2. Its Productivity Slowdown Still Matters and 5...

Risograph Daily Trade Brief cover for September 4 showing six separate files: Lobito copper's AGOA direct-shipment record under 19 CFR 10.175, H200 export licensing and China market access, July computer-related import data without a country split, FCC trusted-test-lab priority, unresolved Russia sanctions tariff exit timing, and Canada's Q2 growth and productivity rebound.

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Canada's Q2 GDP and business-sector labour productivity both rebounded. The longer-run productivity slowdown belongs in a separate forecast horizon.

Read it in full: Canada Outgrew the OECD Area in Q2. Its Productivity Slowdown Still Matters.

DRC copper routed through Angola keeps its AGOA preference only if the record proves either the U.S.-destination or customs-control route under 19 CFR 10.175.

Read it in full: DRC Copper Through Lobito Needs an AGOA Direct-Shipment File.