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Starting 1 Jan 2026, Beijing began charging a 55 % duty on any Australian beef that exceeds a newly set 205,000-tonne annual quota, abruptly curbing access to its second-largest export market.
On 2–3 Jan 2026, Iran’s state arms exporter Mindex publicly added cryptocurrency as an official settlement option for foreign weapons buyers, signalling an overt bid to bypass dollar-based banking sanctions.
Effective 1 Jan 2026 Beijing ended a 30-year tax exemption on condoms and birth-control drugs, making them 13 % costlier while expanding childcare tax breaks, in a bid to arrest China’s three-year population decline.
New 2025 registration data show Norway’s new-car market is now 95.9 % battery-electric, effectively ending mainstream petrol/diesel sales nine years before the EU’s postponed 2035 target.
For the first time, Tesla slipped to #2 after its 2025 deliveries fell nearly 9%, allowing China’s BYD—whose own volumes jumped—to become the world’s top battery-electric vehicle seller.
Effective 1 Jan 2026, Beijing imposed a three-year 55 % duty on any beef shipped above new country quotas totaling 2.7 Mt, abruptly curbing the world’s largest import market.
Effective 1 Jan 2026, Warren Buffett, 95, relinquished Berkshire Hathaway’s chief-executive post to long-time deputy Greg Abel while retaining the chairman’s seat.
Beijing will levy an extra 55 % duty on any beef shipments arriving after 1 Jan 2026 that push a new global quota of 2.7 million t over the limit, a three-year measure aimed at shielding China’s struggling cattle sector.
On 8 December 2025 the Trump administration reversed Biden-era controls and okayed Nvidia’s H200 GPU exports to “approved” Chinese buyers, unleashing more than two million Chinese orders and forcing Nvidia to ask TSMC to boost production starting Q2 2026.
BYD sold about 2.26 million battery-electric cars in 2025, overtaking Tesla’s estimated 1.65 million and ending the U.S. firm’s run as annual EV volume leader.
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