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This article is a fairly recent article that talks about international trading. Particularly, it talks about a free trade agreement that will soon be finalised between countries that could potentially represent 1/3 of global output. This free trade agreements seeks to reduce barriers in some countries allowing for easier trade and aims to increase the share of knowledge between the countries, trying to make the knowledge similar to a perfect competition scenario. However this agreement may lead to the alienation of power-house China, a heavily influential country that had not been invited to join the agreement. this could have potential backfires such as trade embargos, but for now we will have to wait and see.

This article is interesting because it concretely gives us why two companies are merging.

A recent agreement between Canada and the European Union has created a free-trade condition between the two countries. The action is intended to have beneficial effects for both parties, including new jobs and additional demand for businesses in Canada. In addition, it is likely to reduce the country's dependency on the United States, with which it has traded freely since 1987. People hope that this agreement will eventually lead to a larger free-trade agreement between the United States and the European Union, but not much progress has yet been made.

According to the Bertelsmann Foundation, "a free trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union... would mean more than 9,000 jobs and an estimated 138 percent increase in state exports to the EU." The negotiations have been stalled because of the government shutdown in the U.S.

discusses free trade between south Australia and china

Nairobi, Kenya - A new partnership among Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and General Electric Company (GE) will make $10 million in local financing available to small and medium enterprises in Kenya to develop private health facilities such as small clinics, diagnostic centers and hospitals."This first-of-its-kind transaction was designed in response to the lack of local credit for health facilities in Kenya to purchase much-needed medical and diagnostic imaging equipment. The risk-sharing agreement with USAID will allow KCB to take additional lending risks for clients in the health sector seeking to purchase GE equipment," USAID said in a January 28 press release.

This article is just talking about an event in late 2013 about obama who was hoping that the "trade-promotion authority" agreement would be passed by congress giving confidence to some of the producers.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia has recently signed the Industrial Law into effect, which aims to reduce the country's dependency on imported components and machinery for the manufacture of goods. Indonesia has been experiencing larger trade deficits recently due to increasing costs in these imports, but an ISI strategy would allow the country to replace the imports with additional exports. However, the implementation of the policy is not likely to be flawless and needs to be done quickly, in time for the new ASEAN Economic Community that will go into effect in 2015. Indonesia's markets must be ready by this time to be sure that they can handle the increased traffic that will occur as a result of the economic agreement.

The current Prime Minister of Australia, Toby Abbott, is currently negotiating with China to potentially open up free trade between the countries. Australia hopes that an agreement will be reached as he plans to travel to the country in early 2014. The goal of opening free trade would be to not only strengthen the relationship between the two countries but also to allow greater economic growth to occur.