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Two Comments on the Yuan Revaluation

…deficit is causing the trade deficit (apart from any possible impacts on the value of the dollar) are proclaiming their ignorance. If you are thinking that Dean left off trade

An Unexpected Tactic

…administration trade policies, perhaps with the hope of shaming Republicans into adhering to their own free-trade rhetoric (especially in light of recent Bush administration moves); d) the BR is sending…

Winners and Losers

…been winners up until now, but may soon become losers from trade. On Jan. 1, World Trade Organization rules governing the global textile trade will undergo their biggest revision in…

…manufacturing jobs have also disappeared because of international trade. But jobs have also disappeared in industries that face no international competition, such as transportation and retail trade. The table below…

trade incentives. It said Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala had been offered increased trade quotas if they quit the alliance. The BBC has lots of great coverage of the…

Disagreeing with Paul Krugman ? 2

…cases where large changes in relative prices don’t seem to have produced large changes in trade (Greece’s lagging exports), or conversely, where large changes in trade seem to have happened…

Dear Omar al-Ubaydli:

…employment, which would be made available in a particular trade by cutting off the competition of foreigners or prisoners in respect of that trade, would be net extra employment, or…