Coverage

Protectionism: Argentina Global Champion

Protectionist measures in Argentina

http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=5591

5 Apr 2012
Latin Business Chronicle Staff,  Latin Business Chronicle

Chilean Farm Bureau Calls for Tax Protections Against Argentina

In a bid to help save the Chilean corn industry, Chile’s farm bureau, SNA, calls for imported corn and chicken from Argentina to be additionally taxed.

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http://ilovechile.cl/2012/04/04/chilean-farm-bureau-calls-chicken-corn-argentina-additionally-taxed/52639

4 Apr 2012
Saskia Black,  I Love Chile News

Why is China always injured by trade protection?

China is the country most injured by trade protection measures in the world, according to data announced by the Global Trade Alert a few days ago

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90778/7772570.html

29 Mar 2012
Luo Lan ,  People's Daily Overseas Edition

China suffers more trade frictions

Chinese exporters are facing more and more trade frictions under the global sluggish economic recovery and surging protectionism sentiment. The world’s second largest importer has been a country suffering the most trade frictions for 17 consecutive years, said Zhong Shan, vice minister of Commerce of China at a meeting on Friday.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90778/7768976.html

29 Mar 2012
Mo Hong'e (Xinhua),  People's Daily Online

Oil and troubled waters

Within a decade of the Franco-Russian alliance of 1894, Germany’s General Staff came up with the Schlieffen Plan to face the two-front war which was to engulf the world in 1914 — does the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration have a Schlieffen Plan for a two-front war looming much more imminently for the second quarter of this year?

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/96307/oil-and-troubled-waters

29 Mar 2012
Michael Soltys,  Buenos Aires Herald

UK’s global connections set to decline

The UK is one of only two major world economies set to become less connected to the global economy, a report reveals this morning. Immigration restraints in the UK and the US are likely to cause both states to slip down the group’s Globalisation Index.
 

http://www.cityam.com/latest-news/uk-s-global-connections-set-decline

23 Jan 2012
Julian Harris,  CITY AM

Argentina’s Protectionist Policies are Harming U.S. Exports

Argentina, according to The Global Trade Alert in the third quarter of 2011 took 25 protectionist actions, double that of China. In the last three months, it took more than Brazil, India and China combined. This has a profound and negative impact on U.S. exports to Argentina.
 

http://shopfloor.org/2012/01/argentinas-protectionist-policies-are-harming-u-s-exports/23689

23 Jan 2012
Stephen Jacobs,  Trade

In Argentina, Cloudy Trade Policies Hamstring Importers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577108653947186174.html

22 Dec 2011
TAOS TURNER ,  Wall Street Journal

The sad death of multi-lateralism makes way for a more sinister trend

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/8959533/The-sad-death-of-multi-lateralism-makes-way-for-a-more-sinister-trend.html

22 Dec 2011
Jeremy Warner,  The Telegraph

Darker clouds over world trade

 Rising trade

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-12/13/content_14254602.htm

15 Dec 2011
Dan Steinbock,  China Daily