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January 2, 2007 | Hoover Institution

Trade

Canada is the United States' largest trading partner of goods...

December 6, 2006 | Associated Press

Congress Takes Up Trade, Taxes, Abortion

In the final hours of Republican rule, the Senate on Wednesday put forward an all-purpose bill covering everything from normalized trade with Vietnam and tax breaks for millions of taxpayers to an expansion of offshore oil drilling...

December 1, 2006 | Heartland Institute

EU Ban on Biotech Crops Illegal, Rules WTO

The European Union (EU) had no scientific basis for imposing a moratorium on genetically modified crops, and therefore the ban is illegal, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled on September 29...

December 1, 2006 | Salon

Smash the WTO; the 19th century version

A cartoon from the Sept. 12, 1888 issue of Puck magazine kicks off "A Tale of Two Tariff Commissions and One Dubious 'Globalization Backlash,'" a 2002 exercise in economic history by Stephen Meardon, an economics professor at Williams College...

November 23, 2006 | Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

Divided EU, Russia Begin Talks Amid Energy, Trade Tensions

European Union officials face a difficult meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, after Poland stuck with its decision to veto the start of talks on a new EU-Russia framework agreement...

November 16, 2006 | Cafe Hayek

Gains from Trade

This essay over at the Library of Economics and Liberty is part one of a two part series I'm writing on comparative advantage...

June 10, 2006 | Freedom News Networks

Is globalization for everyone?

Mostly "globalization" is used to refer to the policy of extending the principles of a free market, capitalist political economy beyond the borders of countries where those principles have taken substantial root…

May 22, 2006 | Los Angeles Times (registration required)

World markets' wild ride

I think I have finally caught the Oxford English Dictionary…

April 12, 2004

When Globalization Isn't Enough

Among the most crucial reforms are those related to Latin America's domestic financial systems, most of which are inadequate.

February 7, 2000

The Case for Sweatshops

Interviewed recently by a Miami Herald reporter, Ms. Lopez has a message for people in the United States and other wealthy countries who are nervous about buying goods from "sweatshops": "I wish more people would buy the clothes we make."