Protectionism

Image copyrightAFPImage caption India plans to borrow $10bn in foreign currency While presenting her maiden annual budget on 5 July, India's first full-time female finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, indicated that her government was planning to borrow m…

China may not be in any hurry to reach a trade deal with the U.S. if comments by Chinas Commerce Minister Zhong Shang are any guide. China must uphold the spirit of struggle in defending national interests in its current trade war with the US, the countrys …

Nirmala Sitharaman made a clear embrace of protectionism in her maiden Union Budget. The list of items on which tariffs have been hiked or introduced is far longer than the list of tariff reductions. These tariff hikes, which are part of a broader push toward…

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about the census in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Associated Press President Donald Trump defended his use of tariffs in a series of…

(Bloomberg) -- Americans are buying solar panels from Vietnam like never before, but local manufacturer IREX Energy JSC isnt celebrating. After U.S. President Donald Trump slapped higher tariffs on China, production in neighboring Vietnam went into overdrive…

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MULTINATIONAL FIRMS have come a long way in the decades since the emergence of supply-chain management. A sclerotic and retrospective set of disjointed processes has formalised into a proper discipline. Decisions based on gut instincts and relationships are i…

MULTINATIONAL FIRMS have come a long way in the decades since the emergence of supply-chain management. A sclerotic and retrospective set of disjointed processes has formalised into a proper discipline. Decisions based on gut instincts and relationships are i…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve over the course of its 105-year history has changed monetary policy in reaction to property crashes, war, financial bubbles and policymakers’ gut instincts about where the economy was heading. But the U.S. cen…

In the 30 years since Tim Berners Lee first documented his vision for what would become the World Wide Web, the US has been the primary leader in innovative infrastructure and products that are now core to everyday life. This innovation mostly occurred with s…