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Trying to protect Brazils forests is a difficulty. Logging cannot be stopped due to common access to the amazon. Farmers make use of the forests until they maximize their utility, causing negative externalities. River banks are ednagered by erosion and wildlife loses its inhabitat. The new Laws by the government are not good enough to prevent logging and support sustainability.

This is an article regarding the talks between the EU and the US regarding free-trade talks.

The article is a special example of a common good, as it gives us an example of a private property that is now going to be opened to the public. Lisa and Leon Gorman, the prior owners of Lane, an island near the mouth of the royal river in Yarmouth, have donated their private property to the Main Coast Heritage Trust. The Island formerly being a private hunting territory shall now become accessible to the public. It has been recognized as an "ecologically significant site" and shall now become part of Royal River which is being restored and protected. A long-term management plan is being developed, which includes the economic vitality as well as the significance of ecological protection of the Island and its surroundings. Although in a slightly different scenario, this article could give us an example of Elenor Ostroms theory of effectively sustaining resources through a self-motivated community.

In this article, the European Union is adding tariffs upon steel pipes imported from China. The EU believes that these tariffs will protect their market from under priced steel pipes. Chinese officials prepared a case to the WTO about the situation.

As oil prices keep falling, more and more nations are beginning to worry about the overall effect on their economy. For the first time, Saudi Arabia is moving to cut its prices to explicitly compete with the price of mining oil in the U.S. and Russia, looking to protect its share in OPEC, and possibly go on the defensive to preserve its own domestic and regional shares of oil sales if prices continue to drop.

This is an article about 2013 Bangladeshi building collapsing and the incidents happened after it. It also analyse the reason behind the building collapsing. We have learned about scarcity. Because the scarcity of money, people tend to buy cheap fashion clothes. So companies are moving into poor developing countries, and using cheap labor to decrease the cost of labor. Also, this article made me think how we can do to protect those people who died in the collapsing by stopping buying cheap clothing.

Amid sanctions against the Russian Federation, Belarus has doubled its quota for imported meats. Speculators say that these will be re-exported to Russia, however Belarusian authorities claim these are only for domestic consumers. This either is an example of Russian attempts to avoid sanctions, or a phenomenal increase in demand for meat in Belarus.

In this article, the trade minister of India, Anand Sharma, believes that the United States is placing very high protectionism upon their trade due to intellectual property rights.

This article believes that the WTO's current policies in negotiating trade. The current rules are very harsh on protectionist measures, which has caused dissent among various governments and global organizations.

J oseph M. Matalon, chair-man of the Private Sector Working Group on Tax Reform (PSWG), is calling for the imposition of tariffs on primary goods and lower taxations on Jamaicans, saying that the change would serve to fuel economic growth.

The mainland, the world's top consumer of cotton, will slash its import quotas for next year to boost demand for domestic fibre, a senior official said yesterday, in a move that is expected to put downward pressure on international prices. This is a relevant article discuss the policy of quota.