Tags: Trade/Globalization

Played big role in inviting global companies into country

Wants to move on and focus on trade

Lifts some trade restrictions but sanctions some accused of human rights abuses

The National Intelligence Council presents possibilites for how the next 20 years might play out

Would allow for more foreign markets to set up shop in country

Don't meet federal standards for certain chemicals

Retail trade group asks Obama in intervene

Panama Canal set to double capacity by 2015

So much for Romney's hole card

Competitiveness-wise, the French aren't doing well

Nationalist superheroes aren't what they used to be.

Will allow imports for the first time in nearly a decade

Lowest in two years but not expected to last

U.S. introduce tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels

Not happy about some solar panel companies being given subsidies

Emphasis on maritime security

Both candidates indulge the superstition that while exports are good, imports and outsourcing are bad.

The Republican presidential hopeful is at odds with his party's free-trade beliefs.

But consumers have noticed that stuff made in France is spendy