China has responded to US sanctions with its own set of punitive measures. An expert on international trade explains the standoff and what it means for countries and companies caught in the middle.
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Average farm machinery use in Africa is among the lowest in the world.
Nigeria’s Lekki Deep Sea Port is also its largest, and will boost the country’s ability to process imports and exports.
Manufacturing firms exposed to increased Chinese competition employed fewer female production workers than men.
The EU have introduced a new regulation on the import of products linked to deforestation – but will this reduce deforestation globally?
Many countries export their plastic waste abroad – but the mismanagement of this plastic waste is one of the leading causes of plastic pollution in nature.
A new study shows what it would mean for Europe and China, and why the US might not be too excited about the idea.
No electric vehicle maker currently meets all the bill’s supply chain requirements, not even Tesla. One big reason: China.
Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
If the crisis worsens, more people will ask, how did this happen? The answer will be simple: governments made good laws, but they did not enforce them.
An infant nutrition expert explains the efforts to ensure there is enough baby formula for US consumption and the differences between domestic and imported produce.
As long as industrial policies in Nigeria are introduced only as a crisis response, import restrictions will continue to be their focus.
It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.
The Ghanaian currency is facing structural hurdles.
The brief 2022 US ban on avocado imports from Mexico underscored the risks of being so heavily reliant on a product that comes from one region in one country.
It’s meant to stop what’s known as ‘carbon leakage’ – when production moves elsewhere to avoid climate policies – but the solution has economic, legal and environmental consequences.
An economist puzzles over why fireworks have been going off nightly across the country for so many weeks in a row.
Is the UK economy booming or are the statistics being twisted out of shape by the shuffling of gold bullion?
New tariffs on $160 billion of Chinese goods including smartphones and sneakers are set to take effect on Dec. 15.
The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
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Professor of Trade Law and Taxation, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Lecturer, Business School, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, Law, Monash University
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Economics (Griffith University) and Teaching Associate (University of Queensland), Griffith University
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Professor of International Conflict Analysis, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
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Directeur, CEPII - Institut français d'économie (IFE)
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Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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OIC-Manager for Macroeconomic Policy, Debt Sustainability and Forecasting at the African Development Bank and Lecturer (on leave of public service) at the Department of Economics, University of Uyo
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Professor of Enterprise, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Fellow in Energy and Global Oil, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR