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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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Only Trade Can Rescue World Economy: Brown

'A banking crisis has become a trade crisis,' writes British PM

May 28, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The banking crisis has stabilized, according to Gordon Brown, but a new calamity has replaced it: "a trade crisis" that is killing jobs in industrialized nations and exacerbating poverty in developing ones. Globalization has compounded the downturn, but it can also accelerate the pickup, the British PM writes in... More »

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Germany • Japan • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • trade • global economy • protectionism • protectionist trade measures • trade barriers • Doha Round • financial crisis

Free Trade Under Fire as Protectionism Surges

November's G-20 agreement is abandoned as nations erect commerce barriers

Mar 23, 09 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The global recession has protectionism making a comeback, the New York Times reports, dimming hopes that leaders can create lasting solutions to the crisis at April’s Group of 20 economic summit in London. The last G-20 meeting, held in November, yielded an agreement to promote free trade that was... More »

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China • Barack Obama • India • Mexico • tariffs • free trade • protectionism • free trade agreements • G20 • carbon emissions • trade barriers • financial crisis • Steven Chu

 Swiss Face French-Fry Shortage 

 Snack crisis threatened soccer tourney

May 9, 08 3:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Switzerland faces a potato shortage just weeks before hundreds of thousands of famished European soccer fans descend on the country expecting to snack on French fries. The nation, which is co-hosting the upcoming international soccer tournament Euro 2008, is mashing the pending crisis by lifting trade barriers to import 5,... More »

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Switzerland • soccer • imports • Austria • Euro 2008 • potatoes • trade barriers • French fries

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