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Discounts of up to 415 euros delivering your old mobile

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A few months have passed since Google announced their Pixel 9but a new device was still keeping in the sleeve: Google Pixel 9a. This device comes with a great value for money if we take a quick look at its characteristics, although we can get with it For much less if we buy it at the official Google store. We tell you more about this new promotion. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed The Google Pixel 9a is very cheap if we deliver our old mobile The new Google device can be purchased from 549 euros (In its version with 128 GB of storage), although we can get it for much less in the official store of the company. This promotion, which begins today and takes place until next May 18, is very simple: we can get A refund of up to 415 euros delivering our old phone. This figure will depend on the phone and the status of the same that we deliver. If we welcome this program, we will have a period of 30 days To count since we received the 9a pixel to send our old mobile. Google experts will assess the device and the company will make the corresponding refund depending on their status. This is not the only advantage we have to buy Google’s new phone in the official store. In addition to being able to opt for this reimbursement, We will also receive 25 euros of balance to spend on Google Store. A telephone with a very difficult value for money Google has launched a new phone that is going to give much to talk about this 2025. It is an authentic SUV, also inheriting some key aspects of its older brothers. The most prominent, of course, is in its processor: the Google Tensioner G4, The same one that all other Pixel 9 set up That we already have available. The screen is another of the key points of this new device. It is a 6.3 -inch poed panelthe same size as the Google Pixel 9. This screen, in addition, has a 120 Hz soda rate, is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and has a maximum brightness of 2,700 nits, so we can see it even on stage with a lot of external lighting. In the back we will find ourselves A camera system composed of two sensors: a wide angle of 48 MP (F/1.7, Dual Pixel and OIS) and an ultra wide angle of 13 MP (f/2.2). The front camera in this case is 13 MP, thus forming a photographic system with which we will be able to take good photos in any situation. We leave two of the strengths of the device to the end. One of them is artificial intelligence, since this Pixel 9A has all the best of Gemini. The other is its great durability, since you will receive 7 years of updates. All this makes it a round phone that, despite arriving from 549 euroswe can greatly reduce its price thanks to the promotion that is active in Google Store. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Google In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price (2025). Your analysis and videos are here

China has found a solution to tariffs for Amazon sellers in the US. The problem is that it is illegal

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The commercial war between the United States and China can shoot so many prices That the list is, a priori, endless. However, this 145% tariff figure imposed by the Trump administration (later Replicated by Beijing), it affects more products than others, and within that giant on online purchases called Amazon, the problem is much more fat for some vendors than for others. In China they have found a solution, although it does not seem legal. Fraud hidden behind shipments. I told it exclusively Fortune weekend. The rates imposed by the Trump administration of Chinese imports, which have reached such high levels Like that 145% We were talking about, not only have they destabilized great American retailers and sellers In Amazon, but they have also put in check the Chinese manufacturers and distributors who feed those supply chains. In response to this increasingly hostile commercial environment, several Chinese suppliers have begun to offer their US clients a “solution” as simple as illegal: falsify the declared value of imported products to reduce tariff load. It is, without any type of rodeos, a type of customs fraud. Illicit offers in digital tray. The medium lo He explained with examples. In messages sent by email and through the Wechat platform (then obtained by Fortune) at least half a dozen Chinese suppliers explicitly proposed to an American brand of domestic goods with a wide presence on Amazon that Subdeclara The value of its imports. “Many companies in the United States use invoices with minor values ​​to facilitate customs office and reduce rates,” wrote one of them. Another was still More direct: “We can modify the declared value in commercial invoices to help with tariff costs.” These proposals apparently have been frequent and formulated with total normality, as if they were part of the usual treatment. In some cases, suppliers added the option to use the shipping method Delivery Duty Paid (DDP), where the supplier assumes customs management and is responsible for manipulating the declared value of the shipment, thus creating a kind of deliberate barrier between the American seller and customs. Everything, of course, with the aim of relieving the tax burden, but assuming significant legal risks. A mined land for small importers. According to the medium, the founder of the American company involved (which anonymity requested so as not to compromise its usual suppliers) expressed concern that many small companies They can fall In these traps without fully understanding the legal consequences. Such and As he saidone of its suppliers said that this tactic is already common among competitors based on China. It is precisely this type of practices that, according to him, distorts the playing field: Chinese vendors who falsify the value of their shipments not only avoid high tariffs, but also obtain a direct competitive advantage over US vendors who follow the rules. From suspicion to confirmation. Apparently, suspicions about this type of practices are not new. Many American sellers have been complaining that their rivals in China could be Systematically subdeclating The values ​​of your products. Be that as it may, last week the issue exploded within the Amazon sellers community after a Chinese consultant published An entrance to LinkedIn stating that “the declared value of a typical container from China to the United States usually ranges between 5,000 and 10,000 dollars”, a figure that US vendors consider ridiculously low, especially in categories such as “home and garden”, where products such as furniture significantly raise real value. Play within legality. Options under the legal framework? Fortune said that in the face of pressure, some Chinese suppliers have begun to Offer small discounts in wholesale prices as a palliative measure, but that barely touch the surface of the problem. Others mention the possibility of Move production To other countries with lower tariffs, although they recognize that this alternative can only materialize over time. Meanwhile, illegal offers seem to continue on the table. The combination of punitive rates, unfair competition and lack of effective customs supervision has created a scenario where the incentive to the trap overcomes The will to respect the norms. A fraud without punishment. It is the last of the aid legs to explain this type of movements. Impunity seems to be a central ingredient of the crisis. Several American businessmen expressed to Fortune his frustration for the absence of consequences for those who commit customs fraud from China. The control mechanisms do not seem to be prepared to respond with the necessary forcefulness, and each container that enters undervalued represents not only a loss of fiscal income, but also a direct affront to the principle of loyal competition. In other words: the system, as it is, does not seem to punish the cheater. And as long as that does not change, the temptation to cross the line will remain there, in this case, disguised as a simple commercial proposal in an entrance tray. Image | World Bank In Xataka | The tariff war will shoot the price of a component that nobody speaks: the SSD units In Xataka | China responds again to US tariffs and rises to 125%: from here it would be a “joke” to keep climbing

Two atomic watches in space

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The European Space Agency is about to empirically verify one of the most fundamental theories of physics. To try this at home, you will only need an atomic clock and a space station. Three decades of gestation. After 30 years in development, the launch of the ACES INSTALLATION (Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space) is just around the corner. This ambitious ESA project will send a set of atomic watches of very high precision to the International Space Station to measure how gravity affects the passage of time. ACES not only hopes to validate, with unprecedented precision, the effect of the gravitational expansion of time, predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity. He also hopes to open the door to new research on fundamental constants and dark matter, in addition to Improve time synchronization global. A little context. According to Einstein’s general relativity, gravity deforms space-time, which has a direct consequence: time goes at different speed depending on the intensity of the gravitational field. Experiments on Earth have already shown that Watches on the top of the mountains (where gravity is slightly lower) they go infinitesimally faster than the watches located at sea level. ACES will take this concept to the extreme. Orbiting 400 km on Earth aboard the ISS, the instrument of ESA will experience a remarkably weaker gravitational field than on the surface. The objective is to create an “atomic watches network” comparing the signals of ACES instruments with the most precise watches on Earth. It will be this comparison that allows measuring temporary dilation more accurately than ever. In addition to ratifying general relativity, ACES will accurately measure the differences in gravitational potential between continents, will verify If the universal constants of physics are constant Over time, and will discover whether dark matter interacts with atomic watches. Two watches better than one. The heart of ACES are two complementary atomic watches with each other. Pharao (Projet d’Onomique atomique French space agency CNES. AND SMH (Space Hydrogen Maser), produced in Switzerland by Safran Time Technologies. Pharao is an atomic cesium clock. Use lasers to cool cesium atoms to almost absolute zero (-273 ° C). This extreme cooling allows incredibly precise time and frequency measurements. Pharao is much more compact than its terrestrial equivalents (which can measure several meters high), since in microgravity, the atoms “float” more time in the interaction zone, without having to launch vertically against gravity. SMH uses hydrogen atoms as a frequency reference. It is an active masier, similar to those used in Galileo navigation satellites, but ten times more stable. It shines for its short -term stability, in periods of up to an hour. Combining this short -term stability with the long -term precision of the Pharao, ACES will offer a time signal with amazing precision, of only a second every 300 million years. Launch by Spacex. After being assembled and subjected to tests at the Airbus facilities, ACES traveled in March 2025 to the NASA Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, where ESA, Airbus and NASA engineers completed the final preparations in a clean room before its launch. The take -off of ACES to the ISS is scheduled for April 21 aboard the CRS-32 repayment missionin a Spacex dragon ship. Once at the orbital station, a robotic arm will install the instrument outside the European Columbus module. It will be operational for 30 months, collecting data continuously. Image | THAT In Xataka | In search of the Interplanetary GPS: NASA projects a space browser with the accuracy of an atomic clock

It has rained so much that Spanish legumes are literally rage

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A phytosanitary alert. Most of the time everything starts like this: a phytosanitary alert and chaos. In this case, the alarm He has launched it The Junta de Castilla y León and the reason has been the rage and Mildiu. We do not know if 2025 will be the worst year for legumes in Spain, but of course it will try. What happened? That the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development Spanish and Leonesa “He has issued A phytosanitary alert aimed at farmers in the region, especially those who cultivate legumes “before the detection of rage (disgust) and Mildiu. It is no accident. The abundant rain of recent months creates the perfect conditions for these two diseases to extend like gunpowder. They are two diseases of fungal origin that cause lesions in leaves, stems or pods. And, in general, they greatly reduce the performance of the bushes. What does the alert entail? In general, a series of recommendations. The Board asks farmers to monitor their plots actively, make an individualized diagnosis if they find visible symptoms of the disease and manage it according to the Technical Support Protocols which facilitates the Ministry. But is it really a problem? Yes. Having fungi of this type belling at ease for some of the main agricultural areas of the country is always a problem. But as if that were a little, it is a quite bad year for legumes. And the best example is the chickpeas. In good part of the country, chickpea plantations They go with great delay. In general, the chickpea has to be more than 100 days in the countryside and “this year, hopefully, will pass 60”. In fact, Just a couple of weeks ago“the plant would have to measure a span and still without sowing” because the accumulation of water on the grounds made it unfeasible. This is a problem because The norms of common agricultural policy obliges to farmers to plant legumes. So we find crops under developed by meteorology and that are widespread for an administrative issue: there is only a plague to round the argument of an economic and productive crisis of a considerable size. To this we must add that our largest chickpea supplier (Commercial war through) It is the United States. And what will happen? It is a good question. Except that implode the international market, consumers are not likely to notice all this. After all, Mexico, Canada and other countries They are in conditions to compensate for our legume needs. At the productive level, The thing is more complicated: As I said, the PAC makes exposure to a bad legume harvest high. And that will complicate the life of a good part of a sector that, After years of droughtI hoped to recover normal this 2025. All scenario are on the table, but what seems clear is that lthe processes of Fielding of the field will accelerate. Image | Shelley Pauls | Aemet In Xataka | It has rained 143% more than normal this March. Although it does not seem like it, for the Spanish field it is also a problem

The 16E iPhone looked like a stumble. In the end it has been decisive for Apple to achieve an unpublished milestone in its history

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Apple has been in the smartphones market for almost two decades, but I had never managed to lead global sales in a first quarter. That has just changed. Between January and March 2025, the Cupertino company has been at the top of the world ranking, ahead of Samsung and with Xiaomi completing the podium. Counterpoint Research has been in charge of putting figures and context to the new Apple milestone. The keys? An unusual launch calendar for the company, a solid growth in emerging markets and a good global behavior just before the earthquake of the tariff war driven by the United States. At the top of the podium. Apple led global smartphones sales in the first quarter of 2025 with a 19% market share. In addition, it achieved a 4% increase in units sold compared to the same period of the previous year. In second position Samsung appears, which obtained 18% and experienced a 5% drop in units sold. Xiaomi, meanwhile, maintains third place with sustained growth. Its evolution has been progressive: in the first quarter of 2023 it had 12% of the market, in 2024 it rose to 13% and in this start of 2025 it has reached 14%. Although its position has not changed, the constant improvement in quota reflects a difficult to ignore rise. An unusual launch. A key part to understand Apple’s leadership This quarter is at the launch of the iPhone 16E. The device was announced on February 19 and reached stores just a week later. Although it is not usual to see new iPhone in this section of the year, there are precedents: The iPhone is original It was launched in March 2016, And the third generation also did it in March, but 2022. An iPhone discussed, but sold without brake. Although the 16E iPhone has not fully convinced those who expected a more competitive proposal in quality-pricethe truth is that its market performance has been remarkable. It is a model with a more accessible approach, but with a hardware reinforced to be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Despite doubts, its launch has had a strong reception. A trimester of contrasts. The global market grew by 3% year -on -year in this first quarter, promoted by China, where “public subsidies reactivated demand, and for recovery in emerging markets such as India, Southeast Asia or Latin America. On the other hand, markets such as Europe, the United States or even China showed signs of exhaustion, according to the analysis firm. A market that does not stop. Samsung started the year with a slower pace due to the delay of Galaxy S25but sales rebounded after its launch and that of the new A. Xiaomi series, meanwhile, reinforced its presence in both new markets and in its country of origin. Vivo became the brand that grew most among the top five, while Oppo maintained fifth place thanks to good results in India, Latin America and Europe. Other manufacturers also gained ground, although they were out of the top five. Huawei was the largest seller in China during the quarter. Honor and Motorola also grew strongly in several international markets, intensifying competition in segments where great global brands predominated. Tension on the horizon. Although the quarter leaves positive figures, the immediate future is not clear. The threat of new tariffs, driven from the United States, has forced brands such as Apple to move file quickly. The company came to charter flights from India to mitigate possible problems. At the moment, exemptions have appeared on stage, but uncertainty persists. Images | Thai Nguyen | Medhat Dawoud | Ricardo Aguilar (Xataka) In Xataka | If the question is “who will win if prices for tariffs up” the answer is: “Second -hand mobiles”

Its sales are falling 37% between politics, controversies and the renewal of your star car

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Tesla is going through an extremely complicated moment. Like every automaker, the company faces a really complicated context in the United States and China with the open commercial war between the two countries. Although Donald Trump has announced last Sunday that his offensive retracted in part and that partially lifts tariffs on technological products manufactured in China, commercial barriers to cars production and to steel and aluminum They are still underway. Obviously, these last two variables directly affect the company. Although Tesla manufactures in the United States All cars that sells in the country, tariffs also apply to the pieces with which these cars are produced if they arrive from outside the country’s borders. That is to say, will suffer a minor impact than other companies but also faces difficulties in this regard. Tariffs explain from Bloomberg, They have caused the company to stop selling its Tesla Model S and Model X in China. These two luxury options are almost testimonial in the Chinese market but the image of the company in a way. In spite of everything, as we explain, what Tesla can fear are Restrictions related to autonomous drivinga service with which the company expects to gain ground in China now that Byd is pressing taking these serial options to its cheapest vehicles. The international context cannot reach Tesla at the worse. The company has faced some last months where the falls in the stock market have been a constant. To the point that on December 17 its cost brushed the $ 480 and today it is quoted just over 250 dollars. And all of the above must be added a generalized fall in almost all European markets. Sales figures that scare In March 2025, Tesla Model 3 was The best -selling electric car In Spain, registering 1,391 registrations. The Tesla Berlina reinforces its position as the best -selling electric car in our country and puts distance to the KIA EV3 in the accumulated of the year. Between January and March, Tesla Model 3 added 2,047 registrations, for the 1,292 of the Korean model. In addition, in March the Berlina opened a huge gap with the Renault 5, the second best -selling electric car in Spain last month, which added 696 registrations. He clearly exceeded Tesla Model and (589 registrations), third classified last March, and maintained the accumulated of the year with 1,177 enrollments compared to 1,101 SUV of Tesla enrolled. However, in what we have been, the fall of sales of Tesla in Spain is considerable. He Tesla Model 3 It is working at the same rate as last year at this point (it grows less than 1%) but Tesla’s SUV does fall strongly (-27.38%). And their luxury vehicles, the Tesla Model S and Model X, have only sold 10 and 11 units which is around half that last year. In the sum of units, Tesla has sold in Spain 3,169 cars between January and March. It is 11.75% less than the previous year, which also drastically reduces its market share among the electric where it dominated with iron hand. As we have explained on other occasions, the trend points to the fact that in April the sales of Tesla will begin to recover, with the delivery of the Tesla Model and Updated that had not yet been delivered and that they have had the Shanghai plant has half a gas until not long ago. We must also add that The approvalagain, of MOVES III PLAN I should encourage sales. But Tesla not only lives from Spain and sales in the other markets in Europe are being especially bad. In Germany, which remains by volume the largest market in the electric car in Europe, Its sales have collapsed to the point that it is no longer its main market. Between January and MarchTesla sold 4,935 units in Germany. It is 62.2% less than in the same 2024 period. And of those less than 5,000 registrations, 2,229 arrived last March. Germany’s data are especially worrisome. It remains to be seen to what extent is the hangover of the update of Tesla Model and but you have to take into account that Elon Musk has been politically meaning With the extreme right in the country, a really sensitive issue and that has caused multiple protests To the point of projecting on the facade of the Berlin factory an image of the company’s CEO doing the Nazi greeting. On average, they collect in ForocochesticoTesla sales have fallen 37% in Europe. This is a consequence of very pronounced falls in large markets. In France, 11,360 registrations in the first quarter of 2024 to 6,696 units this year have passed. It is a 41.1% fall. In Belgium, Denmark or Netherlands, some of the countries with the highest share of electric cars, the falls are counted at 58.2%, 56.5%and 49.7%, respectively. The only market where Tesla sales are maintained is in the United Kingdom. There have been 7,220 units making this country into the company’s main market and the only major market where sales are maintained. An absolute exception in the company’s context. But why is this taking place? In Electrek He points out that the company is giving substantial advantages in financing but also echoes a information that suggests that the company is redirecting leftover vehicles from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. In United Kingdom They are not paid import tariffs of cars arrived from China, unlike in the European Union. This commercial barrier prevents Tesla from bringing more vehicles from China to countries such as Spain or Germany, so the performance of its gigafabrica in Berlin is key to its performance in our continent. However, in the absence of an extra cost at the entrance to the United Kingdom, it is rumored that the company is redirecting vehicles in stock that find no buyer in Hong Kong to the United Kingdom since they are cars with the steering wheel to the right and have very few options to go … Read more

“Someday luck will end and they will fall on someone”

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The trend is clear. The upper stage of a Chinese rocket CZ-9 He disintegrated last night about western Mexicocausing a small stir. Nothing happened, as nothing happened a few weeks ago, when A Falcon 9 rocket burned on Polanddespite the fact that several large pieces survive the reentry and fall into populated areas. There were no regret injured when A half ton ring appeared in a town in Kenyawhen part of a Crew Dragon ship fell on a Saskatchewan farm or when the trunk of another dragon re -entered into A North Carolina Glamping. But the trend is clear. We are tempting luck. According to a Recent European Space Agency reportan average of three objects of considerable size, such as old satellites or rocket stages, re -enter the atmosphere every day. Most of these objects disintegrate during atmospheric braking; And a large number of the pieces that do not fall controlled in the Pacific. However, experts’ warning is clear: this has only begun. “We play the whole for the whole every time we have a reentry,” said astrophysic Jonathan McDowell to Space.com. “Sooner or later we will have bad luck, and someone will be injured by the fall of space garbage.” From 3 to 15 resentments per day. Only in 2024, about 1,200 “intact objects” returned to the atmosphere, without counting on the myriad of smaller fragments. Despite this constant natural cleaning of satellites and rockets, courtesy of atmospheric braking, The amount of space garbage in orbit does not stop growing. That esteem is about 45,700 objects of more than 10 centimeters orbiting our planet, a considerable increase. In addition to the frequent space releases, satellite constellations, with Starlink at the head, have completely transformed the space sector scale. “If Spacex continues with its plans to expand its constellation to 30,000 satellites, then we will see 15 daily reentrys,” McDowell explained. Starlink satellites, deployed in low orbit, have a useful life of five years. They will soon be added to the Kuiper constellation of Amazon and the Chinese commercial constellations. At the moment of truth. The vast majority of the earth’s surface is ocean or uninhabited land, so the probability that a fragment impacts a person remains very low. But incidents occur and are less and less anecdotal. In March 2024, a 10 centimeter metal fragment crossed the roof of a house in Florida, later identified as part of a battery pallet discarded from the International Space Station three years before. And what about the atmosphere? Beyond the risk of impact, another issue worries atmospheric scientists: the pollutants left each reentry. “The impact on the atmosphere is greater than ever, since more ozone destroying contaminants are ever being added,” said Eloise Marais, atmospheric chemistry of the University College in London. Most satellites are made of aluminum, which By vaporizing in the high layers of the atmosphere it produces aluminum oxide. It is known that this substance can accelerate the destruction of the ozone layer and contribute to thermal changes. Until now they were not significant amounts, but as the resentments increase, we enter unexplored terrain. Images | Airlive, Juancho Rodríguez In Xataka | The atmosphere is shrinking and that is a problem: they will not fit the 60,000 satellites that plan Spacex and company

They were the same that should regulate Tesla’s cars

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Although Critical voices with methods Elon Musk at the head of Doge has already put an expiration date to his political adventure, the Millionaire has found time to fire officials of the National Administration of Traffic Security on the roads. These are the same officials who must ensure that Tesla complies with the regulations for deploy your self -employed cars, As reported he Financial Times. Doge’s long shadow. In February 2025, Doge ordered mass layoffs in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). These cuts affected 4% of the 800 officials of this agency, including specialized engineers of the vehicle automation security office. Among the layoffs, there were three of the seven experts dedicated exclusively to creating the regulation that the Cyberercab and Tesla’s cars equipped with an autonomous driving system. A stone in the shoe for Tesla. The NHTSSA office currently maintains eight open investigations against Tesla, many related to its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. According toThe published by The Verge, These investigations often flow into Calls to review their cars or updates of your software for Correct errors. One of the dismissed workers assured the Financial Times that the layoffs “would weaken the ability of the NHTSSA to understand autonomous driving technologies. This office should be at the forefront in the management of autonomous vehicles and in the definition of future regulations.” “It would be ironic for Doge to stop the display of Tesla,” said another former employee of the traffic security administration. Musk plays a lot with the autonomous car. Tesla has very ambitious plans to launch a fleet of Robotaxis in Austin during the summer and start the production of the Cyberercab model for next year. These vehicles will not have a steering wheel or pedals and require Specific regulatory approvals like him AV Step programmanaged by the NHTSA. If the agency does not have the necessary resources, That regulation might not have a list on time. “Letting Dog dismiss those of the Division of Autonomous Vehicles is crazy. We should be pressing to incorporate more personnel into the NHTSA. They should be developing a national framework for autonomous vehicles. Otherwise, Tesla has no possibility of expanding its FSD or Robotaxis technology,” a Tesla manager told the North American. Tesla’s future is autonomous. The concept of Robotaxi is key to the strategic future of Tesla. Elon Musk has opted for this model as an economic and sustainable solution for urban transport. According to their statements, robotaxis could drastically reduce operational costs by eliminating the need for human conductors. This approach seeks to position Tesla as Leader in front of competitors such as Waymo (Alphabet) and Zoox (Amazon), which also develop similar technologies and already have fleets working autonomously By cities like San Francisco. Suspicions of conflict of interest. It is not the first time that the shadow of the conflicts of interest de Escane about Elon Musk and his role in the cuts of government agencies that regulate the activity of their companies. The accusations began when Doge cut the resources of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Federal Communications FCC Commission, agencies responsible for regulating the operations of Spacex and Starlink. The same suspicions fell to the millionaire when Doge announced the dismissal of officials of the US Labor Inspection, just when the death of an operator was investigated at the Tesla plant. OK With what is published by The GuardianDemocratic senators have already presented a bill on a possible conflict of interest of Elon Musk at the head of Doge. In Xataka | Elon Musk fired hundreds of employees and now he has to hire them again: they were experts in nuclear weapons Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore), Tesla

The United States imagined that China would veto its export of rare earths. Has a plan B: The Pacific Fund

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In the midst of the tariff war that has ended up becoming a bilateral front between the United States and China, the Asian giant He has responded blocking rare earth export. The White House seems to be seen coming and has played with one of its last buzas. The forecast. The Trump administration has written an executive order to allow the storage of metals found in the marine bed of the Pacific Ocean, According to Financial Times. This initiative seeks to counteract China’s influence on supply chains of critical minerals, since it controls 70% of the global market. A Great Reserve. These metals are found in the polymetallic nodules of the seabed, which contains minerals such as nickel, cobalt, copper, manganese and rare earth traces. As The British media has had accessthe US government has considered that deep water mining will guarantee a national source of these materials, so it seeks to accelerate mining requests under national legislation. Within that idea, it would include the creation of a strategic reserve of minerals to self -abuse. It won’t be so easy. The International Marine Funds Authority (ISA) is responsible for regulating mining in international waters. In a recent meeting, still an agreement has not been reached About how to proceed in underwater mining, and many countries are asking for a moratorium on this practice due to the impact on little known marine ecosystems. In the case of the United States They have not ratified The United Nations Convention on the Law of the 1982 Sea, the treaty that gives the ISA legal support. In other words, it is not within the entity, so the big doubt opens if you can legally grant permits to companies to operate in international waters. For their part, entities like The Metals Company have insisted that the ISA It does not have an exclusive mandatebut some legal experts have warned that acting without their guarantee is a risky movement that can put all nations against. That ocean and not another. While the United States is in this situation, the Pacific choice has much more background and has to do with the Asian giant. China is One of the main actors in underwater mining, with exploration contracts granted by the ISA In the Clarion-Clipperton area (CCZ), a region rich in polymetic nodules. In addition, it is estimated that this underwater corridor can contain more critical minerals than many combined land reserves, which makes it a strategic objective. Taking advantage. Recently, China It started The construction of an underwater laboratory at 2,000 meters deep in the Meriodional China Sea, reinforcing its scientific and operational position in oceanic funds. According to Financial Timeseverything responds to a broader vision: andThe Pacific as the new Front of Economic and Military Competition, where the control of deep resources can make a difference. 80% without mapping or exploring. The oceanic background It is our great unknownsso the ISA is holding these meetings to establish a mining code between all nations as soon as possible. For its part, scientists and environmental groups They have warned that ocean protection is prevailing due to the irreversible effects that could be given. Image | Trump White House Archced and Mister Pommeroy Xataka | There are billions of dollars in rare land buried in full view: you just have to look at the coal ashes

The key ingredient of the Torrijas has shot in price. That does not mean that they will be more expensive

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God squeezes, but does not drown. Not at least if we talk about Torrijas. Although the ovoflation threatened to shoot record levels The cost of one of the typical Sweet cheaper That just a year ago. About 20%. And the reason is simple: perhaps the dozen eggs has more expensive in recent months, but other ingredients, such as Olive oil And sugar, have softened their price. After all, Torrijas are more than a sweet tasty: they are also a curious (and interesting) indicator of how the purchase basket evolves. Don’t say torrijas, say economics. It occurs sometimes that a dish ends up becoming an economic and social thermometer. An example is The “pizzometro”an informal indicator that according to some experts is activated just before global crises. Another clear case is THE BIC MAC INDEXa way of measuring inflation with hamburgers. And a third example is the Waffle House indexwhich allows US authorities to calculate the scope of storms with gofres. In Spain we have The Torrijas. Its combination of bread, milk, sugar, oil and eggs makes them a curious indicator of how IPC evolves. So He claims Sara Herrero, director of Business & Talent by EAE Business School, for whom the sweet is a “good thermometer of the basic basket basket of the basic products of Spanish families.” The problem is that in full ovoflationthis Holy Week that indicator has looked at each other with a special concern. Why’s that? Because Torrijas recipe includes eggs. And these have been expensive exponentially over the last months. In March the OCU calculated that in alone A few weeks The price of the dozen medium eggs had increased about 25%. And the Updated data Facua show that since then they have not been cheaper in most linear. Moreover, the tables prepared by the Toledo Lonja either Bellpuig They reflect that in some cases the price of the eggs has increased, which is in tune with the data collected by the INE itself. His last IPC confirms that in the last month the eggs took care 7.2%well above the general index. Prohibitive Torrijas? That is what some have feared in recent weeks: that in view of the escalation in the price of eggs, with the effect of avian flu and the ovoflation From the United States as a backdrop, tortals fired their price this Holy Week. There are even those who until recently warned that we would meet the “most expensive” sweets. It does not seem to be like that. And not because the eggs are going to be reduced in the short term. The key is other ingredients of the toast that today come out much cheaper than a year ago, which has damping the ovoflation. This concludes A study From EAE Business School, which after analyzing the latest segregated IPC data calculates that preparing Torrijas will come out 19% cheaper that in 2024. IPC Annual variation (March) Ipc variation so far this year (March) Bread 1.8 0.2 Whole milk 3.2 23 Eggs 11.4 8.6 Olive oil -37.9 -19.9 Sugar -15.6 -1,9 Electricity 12.8 5.7 Natural Gas and Gas City 8.4 4 Sugar and oil, rescue. According to EAEthe key to the cheaper is in olive oil and sugar, ingredients that are also used in Easter sweet. The first has seen how its price was reduced by 32%. The second, 15%. Taking into account that today these resources are cheaper, the agency estimates that, in general, the recipe will cost almost 20% less than in 2024. Some calculations go further and suggest the dessert will come out this year 27% cheaper. EAE calculations were made with the Segregated data of the IPC of the month of February. If analyzed those of Marchthe percentage can vary. The reason: the year-on-year IPC last month was more favorable if we talk about olive oil (-37.9%) and sugar (-15.6%), but much worse when we examine the cost of eggs. His interannual rise was that month of the 11.4% compared to 3.8% in February. And the rest of the ingredients? Torrijas are not made solely with eggs, olive oil and sugar. But we analyze The rest of the ingredients We see that its variation with respect to 2024 is not so marked. The PAN recorded in March an interannual CPI of 1.8%, below the general index of 2.3%. The milk did exceed that value slightly, scoring 3.2%, but the increase is minimal compared to that of eggs. What became more expensive is energy. The EAE study concludes that in 2025 the Torrijas will break in any case the tendency to become more expensive that they had been dragging over the last years, which does not mean that in general today they leave much more expensive than four years ago. The agency calculates in particular that the increase was about 53%. Images | Moritz Barcelona (Flickr) and TNARIK INNAEL (Flickr) In Xataka | The price of eggs has shot and having an own chicken coop seems attractive. But there are fines of up to 3,000 euros

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