Trade

Victor K. Fung gives his point of view as a businessman on what is at stake and why WTO negotiators have an interest in finding common ......

Increasingly, production is ..... across different factories in different countries - it is becoming globalized.

With each new bilateral agreement, considerations relating to rules of origin multiply and become more complex in the ..... trade experts call 'the spaghetti bowl effect'.

New technologies can also ..... deregulation, such as implementing online registration systems.

The success of openness depends on whether firms can adjust quickly to the new conditions ..... by international competition.

While the United States exports more than any other country, making that first export can still be a ..... challenge for a small- or medium-sized business.

The U.S. Commercial Service is the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce's ITA; its Web-based services are provided through the U.S. government's export ....., www.export.gov.

Market Access and Compliance (MAC) country desk officers are experts on the commercial, economic, and political ..... in their assigned countries.

Unions have a ..... monopoly on collective pay regulation since there is no free labour market in the sense of a market not governed by collective agreements.

Banks will certainly start reviewing their internal controls to determine what they have set up to ..... events like the SocGen loss.