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EDITORIAL: Waiting for a Trade Policy
The White House has announced that it wants to move ahead with a long-ignored trade pact with South Korea...
Editorial, New York Times
Russia and US most protectionist in G20 group according to ICC
Russia and the U.S. have the most protectionist trade measures among the Group of 20 leading industrialized countries, according annual rankings released today in Hong Kong by the International Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-29/russia-u-s-most-protectionist-in-gro...
Sophie Leung, Bloomberg
Lamy calls on G20 to begin to draw up exit strategies
The head of the World Trade Organization on Saturday called for Group of 20 leaders to make a renewed push to break the "impasse" in the Doha round of trade talks...
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201006261850dowj...
Tom Barkley, Dow Jones Newswires
Canada asks Russia to unwind trade barriers
Canada urged Russia and other G20 countries on Friday to unwind trade barriers erected during the financial crisis as part of a G20 pledge favoring free trade to support the global economic recovery.
Louise Egan, Reuters
Protectionism: Pantomime villain fails to materialise
If comparisons between the state of the world economy and the Great Depression are a useful indicator of how the recovery is progressing, ministers and central bankers from the world’s leading economies should be feeling a lot better than a year ago...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/95e785da-7d8c-11df-a0f5-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=34d69372...
Alan Beattie, Financial Times
The dog that didn't bark - Free Exchange blog
HOW much protectionism—of all kinds—has there been during the crisis? Going into the global recession, some feared a return to the dark days of Smoot-Hawley, punitive tariffs, and collapsing trade and so on...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/06/protectionism_and_trade
Free Exchange blog, The Economist
Trade Experts Give G-20 Poor Grades On Resisting Protectionism
Group of 20 leaders don't deserve to pat themselves on the back for avoiding protectionism this weekend, trade experts said Wednesday.
Dow Jones Newswires
Protectionism mounting despite G20 pledge: report
Major trading powers are continuing to impose protectionist measures in defiance of a promise by G20 leaders to keep markets open, according to a report by independent economists.
Jonathan Lynn, Reuters
Forbes: Global Trade Alert
"An organization called Global Trade Alert has been collecting data on measures taken by sovereign states that affect foreign commerce. They are independent and privately funded. They try to do a deep assessment of the impact of all kinds of measures that affect trade both favorably and unfavorably."
http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/29/g20-trade-nhl-tires-obama-tariffs-opinions-colu...
Thomas F. Cooley, Forbes
JoC: Rolling Toward a Trade War
"The rumblings over trade conflict between the U.S. and China are a sign of growing strains on economies around the world
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Others also point to the most recent Global Trade Alert Report, which shows neither the U.S. nor China has been particularly active in imposing protectionist trade measures."
Alan M. Field, The Journal of Commerce Magazine








