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The Tofino Times
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[color=#800040]Thursday, August 29th, 2019
[/hr]VOL. XXXII .. Num. 5720 | In the News: Tofino International Airport
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Secretary Demore: Zamastan hopes Xiomera and Kerlile create favorable conditions for Eirian talks
Zamastan, the Empire of Xiomera, and Kerlile, joined by the Empire of Trive, are face-to-face in trade talks in Eiria this week, but hopes for progress hinge on whether Xiomera and Kerlile can create favorable conditions, Secretary of Trade Trista Demore said on Thursday.
The Zamastanian, Xiomeran, Kerlian, and Trivian delegations landed in Eiria on Thursday for mediation talks which are aimed to calm or completely end the current trade dispute going on between the four. Though Trive is attending the mediations on their own accord, they and Zamastan have not stated a bilateral summit due to Zamastan's condemnation of the Trivian hack on Kerlile's media outlets several weeks ago. The delegations are meeting at the Lancaster Manor, which is a famed historical Eirian landmark. The meeting is also expected to cement Eiria's intention to show the new moves displayed by their government to change the hearts and minds of the IDU on their neutrality. Eiria was an aggresing power during the 1991 Bjeorg Crisis, but nearly thirty years on, they have worked to change their stance on the world stage to that of a more peaceful, diplomatic nation.
In the latest tit-for-tat escalation of the trade war between some of the IDU's most versatile economies, President Anya Bishop last Friday heaped an additional duty of five percent on about Z$350bn in targeted Xiomeran goods.
The move came hours after Xiomera and Kerlile had unveiled retaliatory tariffs on Z$75bn worth of Zamastanian goods.
Zamastan hopes the Xiomerans can cancel the planned additional tariffs to avoid an escalation in the trade war, Demore told reporters on Thursday.
"The most important thing at the moment is to create necessary conditions for both sides to continue negotiations, and hopefully end the disputes right out" she said during a weekly briefing, adding that Zamastan was lodging "solemn representation" with the Empire of Xiomera.
For just over a month, the Bishop administration has sought to pressure Xiomera to eliminate what it calls unfair trade practices and make sweeping changes to its policies on human rights, media censorship, intellectual property protection, forced transfers of technology to Xiomeran firms, industrial subsidies and market access.
But Xiomera has constantly denied such accusations, vowing to fight back in kind and criticizing Zamastanian measures as protectionist.
Demore reiterated that Zamastan had "ample" retaliatory measures it could use if Xiomera eventually moved to impose additional planned tariffs, but was willing to resolve the issue calmly.
On Monday, Bishop predicted a trade deal with Xiomera and Kerlile, saying she believed the two nations were sincere about wanting to reach a deal, citing what she called increasing economic pressure on Xiomera and job losses there, as well as a viewable decline in Kerlian GDP.
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