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South Korea's terms of trades have increased for the 9th straight month. It has increased 2.7% since last year. Imports have declined faster than exports, which is why the terms of trade have increased.

Statistics New Zealand is reporting that the Terms of Trade of the country are the highest that they have been in 40 years. The improvement is due largely to the prices of dairy exports, which have risen sharply in recent months. The TOT of merchandise have risen by 7.5 percent, driving the them to their highest since 1973. At the same time, the unemployment rate has been steadily decreasing and surveys show that consumer and business confidence is increasing.

Silvia Liu, UBS economist, stated that "deteriorating terms of trade had been the norm for Taiwan since 2000" but that "the nation's terms of trade... have seen a welcome reversal since late 2012."

Maltese is selling passports to members of other countries to have access to the EUs custom union. This may lead to trade creation and we would expect people to buy the passport for such a reason. However this could also lead to trade diversion and so people will have to factor in this with their decision to either join this monetary union.

this article is a good example of terms of trade, and i think it is an important one because it is talking about one of the more developing countries. This article is also rather interesting because there are several graphs included which could be used in an IA.

This article shows the initial stage of something that will have a snowball effect of sorts in terms of the relation between supply and demand. We can see that the yearly economic losses as a result of this shortage amounted to $50bn, meaning that companies and fisheries will attempt to compensate for these losses by raising prices in the future. It is a great example of the relation between supply, demand, and pricing.