Notes: All dollar figures are in current dollars. Changes in nominal dollar amounts are percent growth rates. Changes of shares of GDP are percentage point differences. Author’s calculations based on ...

$725.8 b for the year. Big numbers, all. The roughly $200b fourth quarter trade deficit was about as big as the $200 b quarterly current account deficit in each of the first three quarters. The fourth ...

International trade in chemicals was worth more than $1.1 trillion in 2005, according to figures released on Nov. 9 by the World Trade Organization. This is 12% higher than 2004 figures, but it shows ...

NEW YORK — The expiration of the quota system that has regulated the world’s apparel and textile trade for more than three decades will be an epoch-making event. Since the early Seventies, apparel ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In all of economics there’s nothing quite so elegant—or widely misunderstood—as the ...