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Since the Taliban’s return to power in neighbouring Afghanistan, the security situation in Pakistan has grown increasingly dire.
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Government modelling projects a mere 0.3% increase on current GDP when the NZ-UK free trade agreement comes into full force. Does that justify the concessions the deal makes?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement covers a broad range of goods and services, including food safety standards.
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Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership would boost trade in Southeast Asia, counter China and help show the world the US is back.
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Indonesia is a strategic country for the United States and the cooperation between the two countries will only grow.
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Foreign companies can get rights Australian companies can’t, so long as they are actually foreign.
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Australia won’t let Australians see the Australia-EU deal before it is signed. The EU is publishing running updates.
As the public face of globalism, the WTO mobilised protesters. It’ll be replaced by the law of the jungle.
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We are about to go from having rules that overreached to having few rules. The US, China and the EU will be able to act with impunity.
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Despite the growing role of data and technology in the world economy, there are very few rules to govern digital trade.
Simon Birmingham and Enggartiasto Lukita have signed an agreement that might never be ratified in that form.
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No commitments on environmental standards, but foreign corporations will shore up their rights to sue the Australian and Indonesian governments.
U.S. President Donald Trump with China’s President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting in December 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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America may have missed a window of opportunity to curb China’s rise when it pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Nissan employs 7,000 people in the UK.
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What Brexit means for future UK-Japan business.
Trump had a full hand, but he may have squandered it.
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Boasting the world’s biggest and strongest economy, the U.S. has enormous leverage when it sits down with a partner to negotiate a trade deal. Threats and tariffs are not really helping.
Canada’s dairy industry is being increasingly put at risk in trade negotiations. A visit to a Canadian dairy farm illuminates why the industry should be protected.
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Countries that have phased out supply management systems in the dairy industry have seen an initial spike in production, then a steady decline. That’s why Canada should protect its dairy farmers.
Canada, Mexico and other U.S. allies aren’t walking away from the principles of economic cooperation.
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The death of the rules-based world order that supports the global economy and free trade has been greatly exaggerated.
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Labor says it will wave through the 11-nation Trans Pacific Partnership deal, then amend it in government. That won’t be easy.
Extending pharmaceutical monopolies would substantially increase costs for taxpayers.
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The EU is asking Australia to extend drug company monopolies. This could mean Australians wait longer for access to cheaper, generic medicines.
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A political scientist and economist explores the causes and consequences of Trump’s scattershot trade policy.
The White House frets about how the U.S. imports more stuff than it exports.
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The administration embraces mercantilism, an ideology with few adherents.
Is there still room for the U.S.?
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Trump, who withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership when he became president, briefly appeared to consider joining the trade accord again.
Malcolm Turnbull will be relieved to have some time away from the Barnaby Joyce affair when he arrives in Washington this week.
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When he meets the US president this week, the prime minister will talk about the North Korean nuclear threat, the rise of China, and the rebranded Trans-Pacific Partnership.