Why is this important? Because it is the French national railway company buying new rolling stock from a Canadian company, instead of from a French company.

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We've seen corporations use "free trade" agreements to quietly camouflage their push for exploitable labor in broader arguments about globalization. What we haven't seen is corporate special interests openly push for U.S.

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A new language class is providing an opportunity for Liberians to learn Mandarin as China expands its economic presence in the West African country.

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Why Un-Implanted Blastocysts Should Be Recognized As Persons

The use of so called "embryonic" stem cells is creating a lot of heated debate in a number of discussion sites. I have even participated by posting on it here in Newsvine and in Gather.

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The world has begun to recover from recession but the process will not be simple, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

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A trade pack like this could bring more economic stability to Latin America. What do you think?

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A top economist at one of Canada's biggest banks says it's unlikely the U.S. dollar will be ditched as the lead currency used in international trade.

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Is Buying American the Solution to the Economic Crisis?

Is buying American the solution to the economic crisis? I have a simple one word answer to that question: no.

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"...We don't want to come out of this crisis with just inflation, a mountain of debt and more shovel-ready jobs. We want to — we have to — come out of it with a new Intel, Google, Microsoft and Apple.

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A deficit of 320.7 billion yen was recorded in December--the first in the final month of the year since 1979.

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Does Barack Obama understand the seriousness of the economic crisis? Yesterday, he laid out his economic agenda, and it was filled with all sorts of important exhortations and proscriptions. He appropriately condemned the "anything goes" policies of the last administration.

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Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns.

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In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought, caused by El Nino, killed the crops on the Deccan plateau.

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WASHINGTON: Congress may outlaw elements of oil futures trading that lawmakers found distorted demand and contributed to the 69% surge in prices in the past year.

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Del. James W. Hubbard seems to have started a trade dispute with China -- and he's loving every minute of it.

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A Chinese cargo ship believed to be carrying 77 tonnes of small arms, including more than 3m rounds of ammunition, AK47 assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, has docked in the South African port of Durban for transportation of the weapons to Zimbabwe, the South A …

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Canada wants to open up the European market to imports of Canadian genetically modified products, particularly canola oil.

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With the dollar near record lows, more American investors are starting to think about whether it's time to start dabbling in the foreign currency exchange market. Experts have one piece of advice: Be careful.

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So here's what I don't understand: Why do so many of our presidential candidates, and a surprising proportion of the American population, believe that we should impose trade sanctions on ourselves? After all, if you believe that the United States should trade less with the world …

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Flush with petrodollars, oil-producing countries have embarked on a global shopping spree.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — In a setback for American producers fighting Chinese imports, a federal trade panel ruled Tuesday against the American glossy paper industry's request for tariffs on imported Chinese paper.

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The strong euro -- and weak dollar -- is making it increasingly difficult for European companies to do business overseas.

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Yesterday, a U.S. Navy destroyer helped the crew of a North Korean freighter recapture their vessel from a band of marauding pirates off the coast of Somalia.

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eGlobal Trade Sources facilitates trade between Pakistan, Afghanistan and CIS countries and the world.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — Both buoyed and battered by globalization, people around the world strongly view international trade as a good thing, according to a survey released today.

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