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Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 2.015 billion financing package for Companhia Riograndense de Saneamento (Corsan), the privatized state sanitation utility of Rio Grande do Sul, to expand water supply and sewage collection/treatment across 60 municipalities serving roughly 3 million residents through 2028. The package combines BRL 220 million in Ecoinvest (green-finance program) resources with two incentivized-debenture issuances (BRL 1.1 billion and BRL 695 million) whose placement BNDES coordinated as structurer rather than sole direct lender. BNDES estimates the works will generate roughly 9,816 direct and indirect jobs.

The European Investment Bank and Commerzbank signed a EUR 500 million line-by-line guarantee agreement under the new Growth for Energy (G4E) programme, the first of its kind in Europe. The EIB covers up to 50% of Commerzbank's risk exposure on qualifying sub-loans (each project under EUR 80 million) to German Stadtwerke municipal utilities financing renewable electricity generation, district heating and electricity grid reinforcement, with the risk-sharing structure expected to mobilise roughly EUR 1.2 billion of total investment in local energy infrastructure to support Germany's Energiewende.

China's State Council General Office issued Guobanfa [2025] No. 34 ("Notice on Implementing Domestic Product Standards and Related Policies in Government Procurement") on 28 September 2025, effective 1 January 2026. The notice applies a 20% price deduction to domestic-product bids when evaluating government procurement tenders; suppliers whose domestic-content cost share reaches 80% or more of total product cost get the deduction applied to their entire quoted price rather than only the domestic-content portion. Coverage is economy-wide across the government's Goods Classification Directory (Global Trade Alert separately tagged natural/man-made textile fibres and yarn under this measure), with narrow carve-outs for real estate, cultural relics, agricultural/forestry/fishery products, minerals, utilities, and food/tobacco raw materials. The Ministry of Finance published implementing guidance (Caiku [2025] No. 30) shortly after.

Thailand's Board of Investment issued Notification No. Sor. 5/2568 (5/2025), dated 5 June 2025, amending the Schedule of Investment-Promoted Activities under BOI Notification No. 9/2565 across roughly 32 activity categories, including machinery and automotive, electrical appliances and electronics, metals and materials, public utilities, digital, and creative industries. The revision extends standard BOI tax and import-duty investment-promotion incentives to accumulator/battery-cell manufacturing activities within these categories, while discontinuing promoted status for metal-cutting activities (Category 5.4.10). The notification applies to investment- promotion applications submitted on or after 1 July 2025, and was later published in the Royal Gazette on 22 January 2026.

Japan's government, acting through the "Comprehensive Countermeasures Headquarters for US Tariff Measures" (established after the April 2025 Trump reciprocal-tariff announcement), decided on 27 May 2025 to draw JPY 388.1 billion from FY2025 budget reserves for tariff-cushioning relief. JPY 288.1 billion reactivates the electricity and city-gas bill subsidy (JPY 2/kWh electricity, JPY 8/m3 city gas) for July-September 2025 usage, cutting an average household's summer utility bill by roughly JPY 3,000. The remaining JPY 100 billion funds increased subsidies to local governments supporting businesses' electricity and LPG costs and expanded funding support to SMEs via government-backed lenders. METI issued special retail-tariff authorizations to electric and city-gas utilities on 25 June 2025 to implement the July-September discount.