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Retail Asia27/01/2023

Spain’s auto industry needs an overhaul to catch up with European peers and speed up its electrification process as automakers struggle to recover from a pandemic-induced slump, the country’s biggest manufacturers’ lobby said on Tuesday. As elsewhere in Europe, Spanish car production has been hampered in the past few years by semiconductor shortages, temporary factory […]

Retail Asia10/08/2021

India is considering slashing import duties on electric cars to as low as 40%, two senior government officials told Reuters, days after Tesla Inc’s appeals for a cut polarised the country’s auto industry. For imported electric vehicles (EVs) with a value of less than $40,000 – including the car’s cost, insurance and freight – the […]

Retail Asia12/05/2021

The weighty trade group is tapping Marcel Rohner, who ran UBS during the financial crisis, as its next chairman. Marcel Rohner will succeed long-standing Swiss Bankers Association Chairman Herbert Scheidt, effective mid-September, the Basel-based lobby said in a statement on Tuesday. The 57-year-old Rohner has sat on the SBA’s board for the past three years. He is better known as the […]

Retail Asia23/01/2019

The American subsidiary of Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics spent $3.12 million on lobbying U.S. politicians and officials last year, the second-largest amount following 2017, data from a Washington-based research group showed Monday. Samsung Electronics’ lobbying expense was the ninth largest among electronics companies operating in the United States, moving up two notches from a […]

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Auto Lobby Urges Spain To Speed Up Vehicle Electrification As Sales Lag

India Considers Sharp Import Tax Cuts On EVs After Tesla Lobbying

Former UBS Boss to Head Banker Lobby

Samsung spent $3.12M lobbying in U.S. last year