It was an eventful quarter, as?Amazon announced an agreement to buy Whole Foods Market for .7 billion, the largest acquisition in the Seattle company’s history and sign of the company’s ambitions to expand well beyond online commerce into physical retail, blending its digital and logistics expertise. The deal has yet to close, however, so the Whole Foods acquisition didn’t have any direct impact on Amazon’s financials for the quarter.
It was in response to a complaint from North Pacific Paper Co in Washington state. It claimed that Canadian paper manufacturers were being subsidized by their government, giving them an unfair price advantage over their US counterparts. The mill, which was bought in 2016 by New York hedge fund One Rock Capital Partners, is one of five left in the US.
It will be the Great Wall's 11th full-process complete vehicle manufacturing base globally, the third outside China, following a plant in Russia's Tula region which was put into operation in June 2019 and another one in Talegaon, India, bought from General Motors earlier this year.
It was the latest chapter in a saga that has pitted Trump's tough immigration line against thousands of migrants who have made their way north through Mexico from violent and impoverished Central American countries.
It was pointed out at the meeting that China's economy maintained overall stable momentum and achieved steady progress in the first half. It was urged at the meeting that effective investment must be expanded. All special local government bonds in this year's quota must be issued by the end of September and distributed to projects by the end of October.
It was a prime example of how Xi and Putin's interactions have stimulated bilateral cooperation.
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It would be the first time that the government provided part of the special bond quota before the annual budget announcement in March. The special bonds were introduced in China in 2015, and the Ministry of Finance has accelerated the reform of special bond management since May 2017.
It was also decided at the meeting to reduce mobile internet service rates and lower broadband service rates for small and medium-sized enterprises by about 180 billion yuan in 2019, trim the average electricity price for general industrial and commercial businesses, lower prices for rail freight transport, cut or merge port charges, and revoke the charge for citizens' ID information certification.
It was a visit that would change not just perceptions of China, but entire lives, long beyond that summer.
It would be pretty much impossible to list everything Amazon has done this year, so we’ve picked out a few key storylines from 2017, and a couple trends to keep an eye on for next year. But first, a few honorable mentions among the biggest Amazon stories of the year.