News about International trade
Alfonso Dolce will take over the management of Dolce & Gabbana. Stefano Gabbana retains the creative role.
The summer season is under threat: airports in Europe risk systemic fuel shortages if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully opened within three weeks.
The Iasi Regional Railway Directorate said on Friday that the first test train on the European standard gauge 1435 mm gauge, namely an insulated diesel-electric locomotive, crossed the border with the Republic of Moldova via the Falciu (Romanian Railway, CFR) – Prut (Moldovan Railway, CFM) bridge to test the newly built standard gauge line on the Moldovan side, from the bridge over the Prut River to Prut station, Cantemir, Republic of Moldova.
In the period of April 7-9, 2026, working meetings of experts from the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova and the Romanian Customs Administration were held at the border customs points of Costeşti Stânca, Sculeni Sculeni and Cahul Oancea, in order to assess the implementation of the bilateral cooperation plan and to identify additional measures to optimize customs control and facilitate cross-border transport.
Starting August 12 of this year, the European Union will begin implementing new rules on food packaging and packaging waste. The changes will be implemented in accordance with Regulation UE 2025/40. The new rules will be applied in phases until 2040. The regulation applies to all products entering the European market, including those from outside the EU.
The trade and economic bureaus at Moldovan embassies abroad will be abolished. In their place, an institute of trade and economic advisor within the diplomatic missions will be created.
From April 21 to April 24, 2026, Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin will host a large-scale international event IT Nearshoring Moldova Roadshow, aimed at developing cooperation between German business and the IT sector of the Republic of Moldova.
Markets remain positive amid uncertainty, with the truce between the US and Iran looking fragile ahead of talks between the two countries scheduled for Saturday.
A draft feasibility study (FS) of the Straseni-Gutinas power transmission line will be presented in Chisinau at the end of April. The documents have been developed by Black & Veatch. The construction is scheduled to start in 2027 and to be completed in 2030.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning of 45 million people at risk of food shortages and is preparing 42.9 billion euros of emergency aid.
Iran demands payment for passage through the Strait of Hormuz in cryptocurrency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his cabinet to begin direct talks with Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah radicals and establish “peaceful relations” between the two countries.
The Romanian Cabinet of Ministers has approved additional budgetary financing of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure for 2026 in the amount of 281.626 million Romanian lei (1.1 billion Moldovan lei) from the Budgetary Reserve Fund. This amount is meant to increase the authorized capital of the National Company “Constanta Sea Ports Authority” S.A.
The Moldovan Parliament approved in the first reading a draft law providing for the abolition of customs duties on imports of most goods originating in the USA.
A two-week cease-fire agreement designed to halt the war in Iran has proved shaky.
On the world’s leading exchanges, quotations of wheat futures rose by 0.7%, partially recovering the preliminary fall caused by the “psychological relief” in the global grain market after the announcement of a truce.
The National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) set new prices for basic fuels for April 10.
From now on, importers of small horned cattle have to take into account a number of requirements for accompanying documents. The Government approved the Regulation on the import of purebred breeding animals of sheep and goats to the Republic of Moldova.
The discovery of a gas field off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast coincided with a critical moment in the war in Iran.
The hope for a rapid de-escalation of the armed conflict and unblocking of commodity flows in the Persian Gulf zone has certainly provoked “exhalation of relief” of many subjects of the world agro-food business. In Moldova, the first ranks of those wishing to see “light at the end of the tunnel” are probably already occupied by producers of dairy products.
