“Critical Mass” on US business agenda
The US National Foreign Trade Council has released a short paper (PDF file) endorsing a “critical mass” (CM) approach to new WTO-associated trade agree...
Tag: services
Manufacturing dissent
United States manufacturers, like their Australian counterparts, are indulging some hyperbolic alarm about their future, but for different reasons....
Professional services reform in Italy
The Berlusconi government has announced a package of emergency measures to liberalize the Italian economy that includes a “constitutional” chang...
Australia’s trade outlook is strong
By 2030 China, especially, dramatically increases its share of world imports of agriculture, fossil fuels and services, according to the World Bank...
Why the Doha Round is failing
The usually well-informed ITSCD Bridges Newsletter tries to explain it with a bit of tabloid alliteration: ‘Political Paralysis Poisons WTO Agricul...
Razzing the Congress party
"[The Indian election] exposes the do-nothing, zero-reform record of Manmohan Singh, prime minister, and his government. More generally, it lays bare India&rsqu...
Asean-Australia-NZ Free Trade Agreement
ASEAN accounts for just under 20 percent of Australia's trade ($81bn in 20087-8), so the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) that has now...