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Iraqi Minister: Oil Exports from Kurdish Region Will Resume in a Week

Kurdish protesters block the road in front of trucks carrying oil in the Arbat area near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed
Kurdish protesters block the road in front of trucks carrying oil in the Arbat area near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed
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Iraqi Minister: Oil Exports from Kurdish Region Will Resume in a Week

Kurdish protesters block the road in front of trucks carrying oil in the Arbat area near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed
Kurdish protesters block the road in front of trucks carrying oil in the Arbat area near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed

Oil exports from Iraq's Kurdistan region will resume in a week, the Iraqi oil minister said on Monday.
Asked about when Iraq will resume oil exports from the Kurdish region, Hayan Abdel-Ghani told reporters "this issue will be settled in a week."
Iraqi Kurdistan authorities have agreed with the federal oil ministry to restart Kurdish crude exports based on available volumes, Kurdistan's regional government said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani stressed last week the urgency of restarting oil production and exports during a meeting with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani.

The suspension of oil exports from Kurdistan and Kirkuk since March 2023 has cost Iraq over $17 billion, according to experts. The longstanding dispute over oil management between Baghdad and Erbil often revolved around Kurdistan’s failure to meet its agreed quota of 250,000 barrels per day in the federal budget, leading to funding cuts.

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Nissan Reportedly Considers Transferring Some Domestic Production to US

FILE PHOTO: The American flag flutters at a Nissan automobile dealership in Irvine, California, US, March 27, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: The American flag flutters at a Nissan automobile dealership in Irvine, California, US, March 27, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
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Nissan Reportedly Considers Transferring Some Domestic Production to US

FILE PHOTO: The American flag flutters at a Nissan automobile dealership in Irvine, California, US, March 27, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: The American flag flutters at a Nissan automobile dealership in Irvine, California, US, March 27, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

Nissan Motor is considering shifting some domestic production of US-bound vehicles to the US, the Nikkei reported on Saturday, as President Donald Trump ramps up trade tariffs on nations worldwide.
As early as this summer, Nissan plans to reduce production at its Fukuoka factory in western Japan and shift some manufacturing of its Rogue SUV to the United States to mitigate the impact of Trump's tariffs, the business newspaper said, without citing the source of its information.
The Japanese automaker's Rogue SUV, a key model in the US market, is now produced in Fukuoka and the United States, the report said, according to Reuters.
On Thursday, Nissan said it would not take new orders from the US for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs after earlier Trump tariff announcements, marking, a drastic scale-back of its operations at a joint venture plant.
The automaker now plans to maintain two shifts of production of the Rogue at its Smyrna, Tennessee, plant after announcing in January it would end one of the two shifts this month.
Nissan sold about 920,000 vehicles in the US last year, of which about 16% were exported from Japan, the Nikkei said, adding the planned production shift could hit local suppliers' businesses.