This has resulted in a huge increase in the legal and illegal trade. With certain species going for £10,000 on the black market, it can be very lucrative.

Throughout the process, builders have been pushing to resolve this dispute in a manner that leads to free trade, and we are pleased that this framework will ultimately lead to this favorable outcome. We urge both governments to quickly finalize the accord so that we can achieve this important objective as soon as possible.

In 2003, Taiwan and Panama signed an FTA. One year after that (pact) was signed, the trade volume (between those two countries) more than doubled, or grew 112 percent,

Talk of trade wars and retaliation make good copy but they don't make good sense in my opinion. Friends negotiate, they don't retaliate.

The trade deficit is much more responsive to the growth and consumption differential than to exchange rates.

Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.