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Distorted Prices in Commodity Markets

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Commodities, Wto, Commodity Prices, Food Products, Imports, World Bank, Exports, Food Prices, World News

Take the case of the upsurge of export barriers in response to rising world prices of food staples. While a particular country might put in place such a barrier to keep food at home and prices low, the effects in importing countries are negative.

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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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Trade Deals: Backdoor Financial Deregulation

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Tpp, Wto, Volcker Rule, Financial Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News, Obama Free Trade Agreements, Obama Free Trade, World Trade Organization, Nafta, Banking, Banks, Bankers, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Wall Street, Business News

Wall Street has a new power tool to demolish financial stability policies, and it comes from a source many would not expect.

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'Green News Report' - March 15, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Floods, Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Fracking, Australia, George W. Bush, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Coal, Climate Scientists, Video, Rising Sea Level, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Ohio, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Barack Obama, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Sustainability, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Ozone, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Senate, Joe Bastardi, Keystone XL Pipeline, Fox News, BP Oil Spill, Pipeline, Tar Sands, Oil Spill, Wto, World Trade Organization, Trade, Rare Earth Elements, China, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: War with ...

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Obama Putting New Pressure On China

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Obama Wto, Obama Wto Complaint, Trade China, Obama Trade, Video, Obama China, Wto, Obama Trade China, Obama Administration, Wto Rare Earths, China Trade, Rare Earths, China, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama warned China Tuesday that it would not be allowed to gain a competitive advantage in world trade by "skirtin...

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Obama Task Force Aims To Ensure China Plays By Trade Rules

Reuters | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: White House, U.S. Trade Deficit, Treasury Department, Congress, Wto, President Barack Obama, Homeland Security, State of the Union Speech, Mitt Romney, Justice Department, State Department, Department of Agriculture, Video, Reuters, Interagency Trade Enforcement Unit, China, Business News

* USTR Kirk to select director of new interagency team * Unit will draw on resources from across government * Reports ra...

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America's Failed Mole-by-Mole Trade Policy

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Campaign for American?S Future, Auto Parts, Germany, World Trade Organization, Apple, United Auto Workers, Trade Enforcement Unit, Stakeholder Capitalism, Iphone, Trade Deficit, Usw, United Steelworkers, Wto, China, Economic Policy Institute, Alliance for American Manufacturing, Business News

Although conservative candidates revel in ridiculing Western Europe, America could learn crucial economic lessons from Germany, which maintains trade surpluses, including one with China in auto parts.

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How, Exactly, Does Trade Bring Prosperity?

Stan Sorscher | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, De-Industrialization, Trade Deficit Agreements, Trade, Industrial Policy, Wto, Trade Policy, Civil Society, Nafta, Business News

I work for a labor union in the aerospace industry. We are 100% in favor of trade. We make products the rest of the world wants to buy. With increas...

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China: Continued Abusive Trade and Now a "Blue Water Navy"

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Navy, Wto, Trade, Tim Geithner, China, China Currency Manipulation, China Currency, China U.S. Trade, China Trade, Politics News

The latest noteworthy example of China's protection of its industries -- and its 'rest of the world be damned' behavior -- is it's allowing its steel industry to duck yet another global environmental initiative.

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Trade and Public Health: a Decade of Double Standards

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: International Trade, Wto Drug Patents, Drug Patents, Wto, Developing Countries, Global Drug Patents, Trade, Impact News

Today, the U.S. government is using negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement to demand aggressive intellectual property provisions that undermine the Doha Declaration and the safeguarding of public health. These harmful provisions must be removed.

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Gov. Buddy Roemer Calls for Withdrawal From NAFTA, WTO

Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Buddy Roemer, Republican Primary, Wto, Nafta, Buddy Roemer 2012, Free Trade, Protectionism, 2012 Gop Candidates, Politics News

I have found one candidate whom I believe is genuinely serious about fixing America's trade mess. He's an undeniable long shot, as Herman Cain was until recently. But it's not my aim here to handicap a horse race.

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WTO Panel Rules U.S. Tuna Labels Are Too Restrictive

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Wto, World Trade Organization, Trade, U.N., Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labels, United Nations, Mexico, Food, Tuna, Tuna Labels, Tuna Fishing, U.S. Commerce Department, Green News

GENEVA -- The popular "dolphin-safe" labels used to market tuna sold in the U.S. are illegal because they restrict too much trade, a World Trade Organ...

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Export Drop Shows Need for New Trade Strategy

James Bacchus | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: International Trade, Free Trade Agreements, Economic Recovery, Doha Development Round, Global Economy, World Trade Organization, Imports, Trade, Doha Round, Exports, Obama, Wto, Trade Agreements, FTA's, Business News

Turning up the heat a little more in this long hot summer of our national discontent is the news that American exports are declining.

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China Unfairly Protected Domestic Manufacturers, WTO Rules

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: World Trade Organization, Wto, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Mexico, Chinese Protectionism, European Union, United States, China, Fair Trade, Business News

GENEVA -- The World Trade Organization ruled Tuesday that China was unfairly protecting its domestic manufacturers by limiting the export of nine raw ...

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China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch

Daniel Wagner | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: International Trade, Spratlys, Wto, World Trade Organization, Asia, China, World News

The current Spratly Islands dispute is ultimately a litmus test for if, and when, China may act not as an 800-pound gorilla that may do as it pleases, but rather as a responsible member of the international community that exercises discretion and judiciousness in its actions.

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In South Africa, Wal-Mart Refuses to Buy Local, Threatens WTO Action, and Wins

Stacy Mitchell | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: South Africa, World Trade Organization, Wto, Local Food, Buy Local, Massmart, Labor Unions, Wal-Mart, Mergers, Business News

Even in countries where the law clearly states that the public interest must be protected in large mergers, global trade agreements give corporations the upper hand, or at least give government authorities an excuse to ignore their own laws.

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Does Corporate America Now Grovel Before China?

Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Government, China Japan Relations, China Corporations, Wto, Chinese Economy, US Corporations, Manufacturing, Chinese Labor, Chinese, China Threat, Bls, Chinese Capitalism, China, Ge, Business News

SHEBOYGAN, Wisc. (Nick Carey and James B. Kelleher) - China's rise as a manufacturing power has benefited American factory owners in at least one ...

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Trade, Islands, and Diversity

Carl Pope | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Chiquita, Dominica, Vanilla, World Trade Organization, Monoculture, Wto, Neoliberalism, Bananas, Green News

If you are over 50 and think that bananas tasted better when you were young, you are right. Bananas are not the only example of how neo-liberal trade rules are bad news for small places.

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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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The Saccharine Republican Ire

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Michelle Bachmann, Tea Party, Louie Gohmert, Medicare Part D, Big Coal, Wto, Big Pharma, Dodd-Frank, Republican Party, Nafta, Glass-Steagall, Republicans, Bush Tax Cuts, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Republican ire and calls to "take the country back" are confusing because for quite some time now the Right has set the agenda and has defined the parameters of what is politically possible in this country.

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Boeing Received Minimum Of $5.3B In Banned U.S. Subsidies, WTO Says

Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Boeing, Nasa, World Trade Organization, Wto, Illegal Subsidies, European Union, Government Subsidies, US Subsidies, Airbus, Business News

Planemaker Boeing received at least $5.3 billion of dollars of banned U.S. subsidies, the World Trade Organization said Thursday. The subsidies...

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Ruling Coming On Legality Of Boeing's 'Massive' Subsidies

Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Wto, World Trade Organization, Boeing Subsidies, European Union, Eu US Battle, Government Subsidies, US Subsidies, Airbus, Business News

A long-running transatlantic trade dispute over illegal state handouts for Airbus and Boeing comes to a head Thursday with the latest ruling from ...

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U.S. Firms Growing Impatient With Chinese Bureaucracy, Survey Says

Reuters | Koh Gui Qing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, World Trade Organization, Indigenous Innovation, Companies, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, U.S. Firms, Chinese Commerce Ministry, Wto, China, American Chamber of Commerce, Amcham, Google, Business News

By Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. firms are increasingly vexed over growing Chinese red tape that prevents them from expanding quickly in Ch...

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Chinese Drought Could Cause Global Food Crisis

James Bacchus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doha Development Round, World Hunger, Doha Round, Grain Trade, Agriculture, China, Agricultural Subsidies, Agricultural Trade, Drought, World Trade Organization, Food Prices, Food Trade, Wto, Export Restrictions, Export Restraints, Food Security, Food News

The worst drought in sixty years is threatening the wheat crop in China, the world's largest wheat producer.

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WTO Sides With Chinese State Capitalism Against the U.S.

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tariffs, Free Trade, Subsidies, Wto, China, Countervailing-Duties, State Capitalism, Politics News

The World Trade Organization has a long history of anti-American actions. They've just handed us another one, and in the process handed a big freebie to Chinese state capitalism.

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