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The EU and other trading partners should keep short-term peace while preserving fundamental principles
It’s time to change settlement dispute systems that favour multinationals over countries — and their public interest
The US and EU believe that it is not just their economies but their social and political stability that are at stake
Poland says it will apply unilateral curbs after Brussels ignored pleas to extend restrictions
Simon Walker says the Johnson government failed to live up to its free trade promises
Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most
Giorgia Meloni appears determined to stretch domestic rules to justify a more active stance on business
Trade ‘fracturing’ risks undermining efforts to combat climate change in Asia-Pacific, says bank president
The US risks reversing nine decades of hugely successful policy that lifted tens of millions out of poverty
Security concerns are driving the fashion for active industrial policy, but there are potential downsides
It doesn’t just split the democracies, it grants the Chinese-Russian view of the world as a zero-sum game
Mutual mistrust hampers ability of free-traders to help environmentalists attain their goals
The victory of radical leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is better news for open trade than US Republican gains
Despite repellent views on immigration and nationalism, the European hard right isn’t generally all-out protectionist
Moves to diversify and rebalance Berlin’s export-industrial complex are welcome
Rising nationalism and concerns about inequality and the environment threaten international trade
From treating trade as optional to overstating the merits of self-sufficiency, these are errors to avoid as we head into a new world
If the global trade body did not exist it would have to be reinvented
What role does the organisation have in an era of fracturing multinational alliances and fears of deglobalisation?
Plus, the UK’s ‘last minute’ attempt to secure energy supplies
Chicago futures hit limit after New Delhi curbed shipments to combat surging food prices
Emmanuel Macron’s re-election doesn’t prove very much about the future of open trade
Free and fair global markets require shared values
Financial crisis, pandemic and war have put supply chains under stress
Measures ostensibly aimed at protecting American workers are also about jobs on Capitol Hill
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