Quibble over ‘slippage’ on protection
Meanwhile in Geneva… the WTO delegations have been debating whether the Secretariat's second report on protectionist measures (issued a month ago) showed...
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China worries about U.S. carbon tariffs
In a speech in the U.S. yesterday, Tung Chee-hwa, vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) hit out at plans for car...
Empty words won’t limit the ‘wriggle room’
Democracy ensures we get the governments we deserve. Gideon Rachman seems to think we deserve only to be consoled for the political dilemma of G20 leaders rat...
Can the G20 get Doha done?
The EC Commissioner for Trade, Catherine Ashton, gave a talk in the past couple of days to the Carnegie Endowment in Washington in which she urged, among othe...
A tangle of carbon taxes
A big storm on the horizon… get ready for it Border tax adjustments ('carbon tariffs') are inevitable once mandatory carbon taxes or emission caps with m...
An empty G20 communique
Writer Chris Giles in the Financial Times explains the five tests of 'relevance and importance' for Ministerial Communiqués. On his reckoning (I agree) the...
Protection by another name
Christopher Caldwell on the seductions of 'bailout' protectionism "Protection generally means paying more money for lousier products. As such, it is a kind of ...