Trade Agreements

British leader David Cameron faces dissent on EU membership

2013-05-13 18:11:00

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron moved Monday to beat back a brewing rebellion within his Conservative Party over Britain's membership in the European Union, rejecting demands for a speedy public vote on exiting the trading bloc but insisting...

Britain's Cameron, meeting with Obama, under fire at home on EU

2013-05-13 10:31:00

LONDON – As he met in Washington with President Obama on Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron found himself on the defensive at home against members of his own party who want their country to withdraw from the 27-nation European Union as...

Brazilian named to head World Trade Organization

2013-05-07 14:21:00

SAO PAULO, Brazil--Roberto Azevedo of Brazil has been elected the first Latin American director-general of the World Trade Organization, the global body charged with moving forward stalled trade agreement talks. The choice of Azevedo over close rival...

China's Middle East footprint

2013-04-26 00:00:00

Security in the Forbidden City across the street from the Great Hall of the People was tight last month when Li Keqiang was installed as premier of China. But the uniformed guards weren't armed with automatic weapons. Instead, they were equipped with fire...

Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs

2013-04-01 12:42:00

The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...

Bid to ban commercial trade in polar bears fails

2013-03-07 05:00:00

An unusual coalition between the U.S. and Russia to win an international ban on commercial trade of polar bear parts failed Thursday. Meeting in Bangkok, delegates to the 176-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted down a U....

Hugo Chavez: Admired and despised by readers

2013-03-06 13:44:00

For just as many reasons readers found to sneer at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer, others found reasons to praise the late strongman. While several readers slammed Chavez for behaving like a dictator and...

U.S.-Mexico tomato trade agreement finalized

2013-03-05 10:49:00

After months of wrangling, the U.S. and Mexico signed a new tomato trade agreement late Monday, officially suspending an antidumping investigation of fresh tomatoes from south of the border and raising floor prices for Mexican tomatoes. The agreement,...

Obama's new vision: Doable?

2013-02-13 00:00:00

In his first State of the Union address of his second term, President Obama delivered the most forceful defense of liberal values uttered on this occasion by any president since Lyndon Johnson. Obama argued for progress on the environment, common sense on...

McManus: Obama's less-is-more agenda

2013-02-13 00:00:00

President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, the first of his second term, won't be long remembered. It didn't offer much in the way of new ideas. It was short on memorable lines — except, perhaps, his demand for congressional action on gun...

Tour bus crash: Federal investigators looking at maintenance records

2013-02-06 05:53:06

Tour bus crash: Residents smelled burning brakes, heard horn

2013-02-05 13:43:49

Lawmaker Kim Sun-Dong (bottom) of the Democratic Labour Party detonating a tear gas canister towards the chairman's seat at the National Assembly to try to stop the ruling Grand National Party's move to ratify a bill on a free trade agreement with the United States, in Seoul

2011-11-22 00:00:00

Protesters are hit by water cannons used by the police as they try to march towards the headquarters of the ruling Grand National Party during a rally against the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) talks in Seoul.

2011-11-10 00:00:00

South Korean police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a rally opposing a free trade agreement with the United States outside the Parliament in Seoul on November 3, 2011.

2011-11-03 14:10:02