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Bahrain: Sustainable Energy Authority Established

Image used for illustrative purpose. Palm Trees along King Faisal Highway in Bahrain. Getty Images
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Bahrain: Sustainable Energy Authority Established

Image used for illustrative purpose. Palm Trees along King Faisal Highway in Bahrain. Getty Images
Image used for illustrative purpose. Palm Trees along King Faisal Highway in Bahrain. Getty Images

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued Thursday a royal decree appointing Dr. Abdulhussain bin Ali Mirza as the president of the Sustainable Energy Authority (SEA).

The authority, affiliated to the Cabinet, will encourage more investments in the sector and conduct a comprehensive assessment to raise efficiency and develop a general policy.

SEA will also make proposals to set national sustainable energy goals in association with governmental and non-governmental entities.

Bahrain plans to provide around 5 percent of the electricity needs from the solar energy projects, which is equal to around 250 MW by 2025. Bahrain’s output totals around 3,920 MW daily from the natural gas stations.

The decree also stipulated the authority’s tasks such as proposing a work-plan and determining the goals to enhance the efficiency of sustainable energy in addition to suggesting projects and initiatives by which sustainable energy sources are developed.

Some of the goals are to monitor the performance of the sustainable energy sector and to put economic and technical indicators on the level of achieving strategic goals and initiatives of sustainable energy and efficiency. Other goals are moving into a low-carbon economy.

The tasks also include directing the private sector and activating its role in maintaining sustainable energy in addition to inciting it to establish private or joint firms that aim to raise energy efficiency and use sustainable energy sources to generate electricity.

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He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders.

In a series of posts to his Truth Social account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with duties on all goods entering the country.

“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on ALL products coming into the United States,” he wrote, according to AFP.

He said the new tariffs would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”

The President ignored the US, Mexico and Canada three-decade-old free trade agreement, now called the USMCA.

In another post, Trump said he would also be slapping China with a 10% tariff, “above any additional Tariffs,” in response to what he said was its failure to tackle fentanyl smuggling.

“No one will win a trade war,” Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for China's embassy in the United States, told AFP by email, defending Beijing's efforts to curb fentanyl smuggling.

“China believes that China-US economic and trade cooperation is mutually beneficial in nature,” Liu added.

Canada said it was “essential” to US energy supplies, and insisted the relationship benefits American workers.

“We will of course continue to discuss these issues with the incoming administration,” said the statement from Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Tariffs are a key part of Trump's economic agenda, with the Republican vowing wide-ranging duties on allies and adversaries alike while he was on the campaign trail.

Many economists have warned that tariffs would hurt growth and push up inflation, since they are primarily paid by importers bringing the goods into the US, who often pass those costs on to consumers.

But those in Trump's inner circle have insisted that the tariffs are a useful bargaining chip for the US to push its trading partners to agree to more favorable terms, and to bring back manufacturing jobs from overseas.