Protectionism

London: Britain and the EU laid down Monday their red lines for post-Brexit trade talks, offering contrasting visions for their future relationship that raise the prospect of clashes to come. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson envisioned his country as a global champion of free trade, emphatically rejecting EU insistence on…

Literally every aspect of a pencil is the result of human creativity. The materials out of which the pencil is made, each of the many processes for fashioning those materials into a pencil, and the financing that makes those processes feasible first had to be…

Written by P Chidambaram | Updated: February 2, 2020 11:18:18 am New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, holding a folder containing the Union Budget documents, along with her deputy Anurag Thakur and a team of officials, outside the Ministry of Finance. (Express photo: Praveen Khanna)The President’s Address, the Economic…

January 30, 2020 1:23 PM ET Washington Post’s “conservative opinion writer” Jennifer Rubin lamented about the party Thursday, writing that she’d rather be a “19th century liberal or a wet Tory.” Rubin, who has often been rebuked for calling herself a conservative, began by tweeting that the impeachment trial has…

Washington Post “conservative opinion writer” Jennifer Rubin announced on Thursday that she’d “prefer to be a 19th-century liberal or a wet Tory,” than a “conservative,” because the word has been “ruined.” “The impeachment trial underscores the degree to whi…

Among the justifications that Daniel McCarthy offers for protective tariffs is the claim that tariffs can be used to keep prices of goods over time lower (Economic Nationalism as Political Realism, Jan. 22). For example, if todays low-priced U.S. imports bank…

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, the Prime Minister advocated for Singapore to support a rules-based, open multilateral trading system in this era of rising protectionism and populism.In the panel discussion on multilateralism, the country should realise the importance of having an open policy with a system…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Many drones in the US are made by DJI, a company based in Shenzhen (shown here) US officials may put an end to a civilian drone programme because of their concerns about the unmanned aerial vehicles that are made in…

The United Kingdom is effectively the backyard for Gulf airlines. Qatar Airways typically has 17 flights a day to the country. But nearby France? Qatar does not even have four daily flights. It is not for lack of effort. Qatar and peers would like to fly more…

For the first time ever, Cyber incidents ranks as the most important business risk globally in the ninth Allianz Risk Barometer 2020, relegating perennial top peril Business interruption (BI) to second place. Seven years ago, cyber ranked 15th with just 6% of…