The all-important US Export-Import Bank will closedown tonight for at least a full eight days – the first closure in its 81-year history – as Capitol Hill has failed to back export sales of Boeing aircraft after a no vote took place on the renewal of the Ex-Im Bank charter before Congress went into its Fourth of July recess. Effectively the Republicans made sure the matter was kicked into the long grass by running down the clock to reauthorize the bank before the current charter expires. After tonight Ex-Im Bank staff will still report to work, as financing awarded before

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