Main headlines from this issue

Embraer’s agreement with China’s CDB masks a fight between orders, deliveries and offsets

Embraer has agreed terms for CDB Leasing Co. to finance the leasing and purchase of aircraft for up to $2bn over three years. Without the agreement Embraer would not have been able to sell more aircraft to China...

Switzerland: Armasuisse forced into private sector partnership – Multipliers swept away

Armasuisse, the body responsible for managing Switzerland’s offset programmes, has been formally relieved of some of its functions. It will now share responsibility with two trade associations. The guidelines have been revised and multipliers will no longer be awarded.

Local content discrimination in South Africa rattles Areva

Deconstructing the title might have caused a few headaches, but the meaning of a presentation on ‘Local Content: An Abstract Combinatorial Game of Strategy’ soon became painfully clear.

South Africa: “Controversy on the SDP has compromised fruitful debate” – “Shipbuilding was a missed opportunity”

Professor Richard Haines said that controversy surrounding the SDP has compromised fruitful debate and an exchange of ideas about the conception and implementation of NIPP and DIP. The relevant government agencies often feel under unfair fire.

“Industrial partnership programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa are long overdue”

Dov Hyman, CEO of Dolin International, decried the fact that very few countries in sub-Saharan Africa have developed industrial participation programmes...

Venezuela invites Uruguay to exchange goods for oil

\It would have been unimaginable only a couple of years ago to think that Venezuela would turn to Uruguay for support but times have changed.\"

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