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This article is an opinionated view on price controls regarding prescription drugs. The author, David B. Kendall, wishes that the US will not import foreign price controls on prescription drugs and instead create their own thus making them completely tailored to the US' needs and limitations. This is because of safety concerns of some foreign drugs that can not be regulated by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration).

After the tsunami in Japan, it destroyed a place that focussed on fishing the Pacific Saury, therefore to ease supply shortfalls they set an import quota on this kind of fish.The quota amounts almost triple the size of actual imports last year.

Once Russia gets into the WTO it will reduce their quotas in pork, chicken and turkey imports. This means that competition will raise in russia and more efficient companies will supply the demand

this article explains certain issues with regards to price controls of wine. wine cost control is important because subsidizing wine industry is an important topic in the Eu and in world, this article has intself many aspects and problems which could be faced due to wine control and here is also said why is it difficult to control it.

This article discusses a problem that can arise from international trade. The US is upset because China, among other countries, has been exporting vast numbers of solar panels to the United States. This has crippled the US' solar panel industry causing companies to ask Obama to formalize a complaint.

Small and medium enterprises are very important to the international economy , and economists are always looking for more businesses of this size. Smaller businesses are important to maintain a variety of choices for consumers worldwide. This article delves into this aspect of international trade.

The article discusses whether there should be a change in tariff regarding the US flower import. As it is the tariff on Colombian flower imports is 8% but the US government is considering tariff free trade with Bogota, which would be less fortunate for the Colombian flower suppliers.

The article that I bookmarked for this week is about how exchange rates and bad climate are affecting Brazil's melon shipments. Brazil is a large exporter of melons and Europe is their biggest importer of melons. Because of the recent financial problems in Europe the exchange rates are not in Brazil's favor for exports. Due to these bad exchange rates for an exporting industry and the bad weather also hurting the melons, Brazil's melon farmers are facing some problems.

This article talks about the steel demand and how it continues to increase. It predicts that steel demand will rise 5.3% in 2011. It also mentions places where steel demand is higher than others.

Merab i agree with you its an important issue i also found a website where is said how organizations are trying to increase the recovery rate of this product. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/68203/20101004/steel-demand-china-india-us.htm

its very important to take into consideration that water is scares resource as in many areas such as in mexico people suffer from fresh water shortages, here is a second website that BBc talks about water crises and in addition we should look at mexico water crises as they overexegurate in using water for iriigation many palces in cities are lacking water. its very interesting read please and become more green to save our planet :D http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1497-water-crisis-availability-of-water-in-mexico

This article is about the gap between China's imports and exports which narrowed in September.

This article is about an important bid proposed by BHB Billiton, an Australian mining company, to takeover Canada's Potash Corporation in order to secure global commodity supply against growing demand and population growth in developing countries.

If I understood rightly what the article talks about. It touches our lesson by two different ways: 1) A maximum price is put to the mutton exported from Australia in order to have more a less the same price as the national produced mutton. 2) During festival days, when demand increases on those typical resources of those days. Price ceiling is maintained by government in order to make prices not reach abusive by sellers.

The tragic landslides in Brazil highlight the importance of public goods. Although, it certainly was a natural disaster the government has been criticised for not alerting people to the dangers. It was well known that this mountain in this area has a lot of rocky ground, which is impervious to water. Furthermore, rapid population growth causing the building of new housing did not improve the situation. The government failed to provide basic public goods, such as monitored flood control, efficient public drainage. "The Science and Technology Minister, Aloizio Mercadante, said five million people lived in some 800 areas considered at risk of mudslides and floods. He said it would take at least four years for a nationwide alert system to be in place."

More than 13,000 people have lost or abandoned their homes because of the disaster, government has already responded to this disaster by sending extra troops, ambulances , helicopters, first aid, food, water etc. this expenditure will be covered by tax payers money, if disaster was bigger i think government wouldn't have been able to help their people, the vivid example was the earthquake in Haiti,

The article discusses Scotland's high literacy rates. As the article itself states 'Literacy levels are a very important measure of the social and economic well-being of any society'. 73 % of Scots have 'internationally recognized' literacy skills from the article. This provides a good indication of Scotland's development. Literacy rates are also key determinants of economic growth (plentiful and educated workforce more likely to be productive and contribute to economic growth) and thus reflects well upon Scotland's economic and social potential.

There is a risk of a double-dip recession because of the chronic lack of aggregate demand and the failure of the austerity packages provided by the European countries.

This article talks mainly about all the economical problems, especially deficits, between European countries and who is to blame for it. And what should we do? Well one statement was: "it will be only a matter of time before one or more countries resort to protectionism. That could, as in the 1930s, lead to a disastrous collapse in activity around the world," He definitely prefers free trade and thinks it is important to focus on a collaborative strategy, so countries should help each other out in these hard economic times instead of work against each other.

This article is another one that describes the reasons for the controversial China currency bill that many US senators are trying to pass. While this bill has the right idea that the US needs to reduce the many imports from China, the reason being that China is undervaluing the yuan may just be an excuse.

"China on Sunday urged Washington to stop pressuring Beijing as the US Senate prepares to vote on a controversial bill aimed at punishing the Asian nation for alleged currency manipulation." The U.S. government is very unhappy with China's dealings with their currency and policies regarding said fiasco. We are en route to passing a very controversial bill to reprimand China for its backhanded actions.

This article discusses an example of protectionism where a country (the US) might be just giving an unfair excuse in order to prevent imports

This article talks about how China is complaining for the protectionist measures being taken by the US government about the solar panels trade between those countries, by imposing a tariff on the imports of solar panels to the USA.

The U.S. accuses China of dumping solar panels into the United States on very low cost due to government subsidies. Therefore the seek for tariffs of more than 100% of the whole sale price of the solar panels that come from China.