Global Trade

Is it Just Corn? Food, Energy and Global Trade

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Ethanol. Biofuels, Global Trade, Farming, Food, International Development, Farm Bill, Corn, Food News

This year, thanks to a mild spring, corn farmers are hoping for a bumper crop. The impact of this will be felt around the world. Here's what you need to know.

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Collaborative Border Management: A New Approach to an Old Problem

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Developing Countries, Trade, World Bank, International Trade, Global Trade, Barriers to Trade, Customs, Trade Law Reform, Trade Laws, Business News

Tough decisions are needed on where to spend limited resources to pursue border management reform. To this end, a well defined business case -- weighing costs and benefits -- needs to be prepared.

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Lets Talk About Trade

Efraim Chalamish | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: International Trade, Global Trade, Subsidies, Wto, WTO China, Trade, Business News

Trade policies are not a sexy business. Customs, anti-dumping, subsidies are just some of the concepts international investors are trying to avoid. Yet, recent weeks reminded all of us that trade can make headlines.

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U.S-China: Headed for Trade War?

Ann Lee | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Global Trade, China, Trade, Global Trade Watch, Legislation, Business News

Rather than protect American jobs, punitive duties will make products more expensive to American consumers and companies.

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How to Keep U.S. Exports and U.S. Jobs Growing

Amy Liu | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Global Trade, US Exports, Los Angeles Exports, Urban Exports, US-Exports, Business-Trades, Exports, Business News

Exporting is simply not in the American DNA. We need a massive culture shift. While President Obama's national export challenge has garnered much support and attention, the results remain sobering on the ground.

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Still Deadly After Death: 'Bushmeat' Trade May Import Disease

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Infectious Diseases, Africa, Bushmeat, Global Trade, Wildlife Trade, The Infection Loop, Immigration, International Travel, Green News

Thousands of pounds of primate parts, rodents and other dry, smoked or raw animals -- so-called "bushmeat" -- are smuggled into the United States as f...

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U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness in Global Trade

Jared Bernstein | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: US Labor Market, Trade, US Market Regulation, Manufacturing, Global Trade, Market Regulation, Trade Manufacturing, US Manufacturing, Business News

While we continue to run large deficits in manufactured goods annually, there are lots of advanced economies with long records of positive net exports. If you think the difference is prices, you're thinking like an economist... and you're wrong.

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A Second Life for Unwanted Clothing

Mattias Wallander | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Thrift Stores, Recycling, Clothing, Recycle, Wholesalers, Second-Hand-Clothing, Exports, Environment, Global Trade, Reuse, Consumption, Green News

Fashions change every season and when we buy new things we have to get rid of the old, outgrown and out of style. Americans consume 65 pounds of new clothes per person each year and discard a total of 25.4 billion pounds of textiles annually.

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The Solution Is More, Not Less Europe

Antonio Borges | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Sovereign Debt, Reforms, Europe, Sweden, Germany, Euro Area, Currency Union, Governance, Equity Capital, Economic Crisis, Surveillance, Global Trade, European Union, Growth, Euro Area Art IV, European Financial Stability Framework, Stability and Growth Pact, Structural Reforms, Economic and Monetary Union, Government Debt, Policymakers, Financial Sector, Labor Market, Economic Integration, Integration, Business News

It is hard to hold the course in the middle of a storm, but European policymakers need to if they want European integration to succeed.

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Why Libertarians Are Wrong on Free Trade

Ian Fletcher | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Free Trade, Libertarian, Libertarians, Nationalization, Globalization, Global Trade, Libertarian Economics, Free Markets, Business News

Like it or not, even a capitalist economy is a system in which your actions affect other people. Your freedom to swing your fist ends, famously, at the tip of my nose, and what you buy and don't buy affects other people.

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The End of China's Wind Subsidy Program and the Future of Global Clean Technology Markets

Jake Colvin | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Wind Power, International Trade, Trade and Climate, Green Trade, World Trade Organization, Trade, Environmental Goods and Services, Environment, Global Trade, Wind Energy, Clean Technology, National Foreign Trade Council, Solar Power, China, International Economy, Green News

The announcement earlier this week that China would end its controversial wind subsidy program is welcome, but is only the tip of the iceberg when it ...

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The Day After Tomorrow: A Different Kind of Trade

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: International Development, Trade, World Bank, Developing World, Eurozone, Gdp, Global Trade, Gdp Growth, World News

Over the past three decades, global trade grew almost twice as fast as GDP. This allowed many developing countries to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

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Global Exports Boomed Last Year -- But Don't Count On It Lasting

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: World Trade, Global Trade, World Economy, Gdp, Wto, Global Exports, Economy, Business News

In a brisk and likely temporary rebound, U.S. exports boomed last year, soaring 15.4 percent, the biggest rise since 1950, according to a new report f...

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Mommy Confusion

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mommy WarsAmy Chua, Parental Standards, Single Moms by Choice, Mother, Computer Games, Helicopter Moms, Raising Boys Without Men, Mars, College, Global Trade, Chinese, Two-Mother Families, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Healthy Living News

Why is being a mother so hard? And why do we all harbor such emotionally corrosive fears that we aren't doing it right?

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Industrial Nations Intervene As Rising Yen Threatens Japanese Trade

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japan Yen Trade, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Japan Earthquake 2011, Japan Tsunami, Trade, Dollar, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Economic Crisis, Business News, Currency, Global Trade, Japan, Business News

UPDATE 8:00 AM: The yen fell against the dollar Friday, as the currency intervention announced Thursday night began, Reuters reports. Japan's central...

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Obama In Seoul As G20 Meeting Kicks Off

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency War, Obama South Korea, G20 Summit, South Korea, Obama in Seoul, Slidepollajax, Global Trade, Obama Asia Trip, Asia, Obama Seoul, g20, World News

At the start of the G20 summit meeting, President Obama tried to calm fears of a currency war and other tensions that have stressed global economic ti...

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Rebuilding Haiti: The Job Everybody and Nobody Wants

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

As civil society groups try to figure out where they fit into Haiti's quest for "development," movements for workers' rights are emerging as a counterweight to the aid agencies often associated with oppressive neo-imperialism.

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Most Open Economies In The World

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sweden, Singapore, Iceland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Global Economy, Norway, Global Trade, Canada, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, World Economic Forum, Global Enabling Trade Index, Slidepollajax, Business News

Like everything else last year, global trade fell -- by 12.5%, according to the World Trade Organization. In some countries, volumes sank as low as du...

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Investors: Beware the Quackery of Economic Goats, Whitewashers and Charlatans

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Carry-Trade, Unemployment, Jim O'Neill, Finance, Stock Market, Wages, Global Trade, Abby Joseph Cohen, Iceland Financial Crisis, Frederick Mishkin, Short Selling, Bubbles, Business News

Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.

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US Slaps China With Another Trade Penalty

CNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Trade, US China Tariffs, US China Trade Relations, China, Business News

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it has set preliminary anti-dumping duties of up to 145.18 percent on steel grating imported from China t...

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G-20 Pittsburgh Summit: Reasons to Celebrate?

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G20 Summit, FInancial Markets, g20 London Protest, Brazil, Economic Crisis, g20 Pittsburgh, Global Trade, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, g20, Pittsburgh, Global Economic Crisis, g20 Pittsburgh Last Results, G-20 Pittsburgh, Lula Speech Pittsburgh, G 20 Pittsburgh, World News

The poorest countries, hardest hit by the economic crisis, are in a hurry to see their economies rebound and thus renew their peoples' hopes for prosperity.

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New Report Hints at Broken Promises and Trouble Ahead for World Trade

Jake Colvin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Trade, Davos, Global Economy, Wto, G-20 Summit, World Trade Organization, Global Trade, Financial Crisis, US Foreign Policy, Global Financial Crisis, Davos 2009, Obama Foreign Policy, G-20, World Economic Forum, World News

The steps countries take over the coming months to respond to the global financial crisis will help determine whether the world is destined to learn from or repeat past mistakes.

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