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It is easy to focus on the myriad of issues for commodities presented by COVID-19, lockdowns, supply issues and demand changes and forget that geopolitical issues remain a huge factor exposing commodity firms to risk. While the former is in the news daily, it has also tended to mask the political tensions in markets. Today, for example, Reuters published a story about the EU opening an anti dumping probe into Chinese Aluminum following a complaint saying \u201cThe investigation will determine whether the product under investigation originating in the country concerned is being dumped and whether the dumped imports have caused injury to the Union industry,\u201d according to that story. There was also a story about a US lawsuit to seize the Iranian oil aboard 4 tankers. Those tankers are now complying with that suit \u201cafter talks between U.S. authorities and ship owners, a U.S. government source and a shipping source said on Thursday,\u201d the article reports adding that \u201cthe owners of the four vessels agreed to have the fuel transferred to other vessels so it could be shipped to the United States, a U.S. government source said on Thursday. The warrant only covered the cargoes, not the vessels.\u201d The US… continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n

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It is easy to focus on the myriad of issues for commodities presented by COVID-19, lockdowns, supply issues and demand changes and forget that geopolitical issues remain a huge factor exposing commodity firms to risk. While the former is in the news daily, it has also tended to mask the political tensions in markets. Today, for example, Reuters published a story about the EU opening an anti dumping probe into Chinese Aluminum following a complaint saying \u201cThe investigation will determine whether the product under investigation originating in the country concerned is being dumped and whether the dumped imports have caused injury to the Union industry,\u201d according to that story. There was also a story about a US lawsuit to seize the Iranian oil aboard 4 tankers. Those tankers are now complying with that suit \u201cafter talks between U.S. authorities and ship owners, a U.S. government source and a shipping source said on Thursday,\u201d the article reports adding that \u201cthe owners of the four vessels agreed to have the fuel transferred to other vessels so it could be shipped to the United States, a U.S. government source said on Thursday. The warrant only covered the cargoes, not the vessels.\u201d The US… … continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGeopolitical Risks Rise? | Commodity Technology Advisory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is easy to focus on the myriad of issues for commodities presented by COVID-19, lockdowns, supply issues and demand changes and forget that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Geopolitical Risks Rise? | Commodity Technology Advisory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is easy to focus on the myriad of issues for commodities presented by COVID-19, lockdowns, supply issues and demand changes and forget that\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commodity Technology Advisory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommodityTechnologyAdvisory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-14T08:28:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CTRMCenterBlog\/~4\/zMndRk9rUfY\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Reames\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@comtechadvisory\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@comtechadvisory\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Reames\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Reames\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/#\/schema\/person\/280c24085ee23c1322c66042426ee6b9\"},\"headline\":\"Geopolitical Risks Rise?\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-14T08:28:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-14T08:28:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CTRMCenterBlog\/~4\/zMndRk9rUfY\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/geopolitical-risks-rise\/\",\"name\":\"Geopolitical Risks Rise? 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