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This article talks about Kirk Liefer, a soybeam, wheat and corn farmer who trades his products nationally and internationally. He is in the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program and will travel to Japan in 2016. He has previously traveled to Brazil with the Illinois Farm Bureau's Young Leader Program to learn about global markets. In general the article suggests how International trade enhances culture and how education and travelling is important to understand and work with different nations and consumers.

The article suggests how Japan achieved a trade surplus last month as exports of cars, computers and other goods grew, while imports dipped on falling oil prices. Government data released Thursday showed that the trade surplus totaled 111.5 billion yen ($903 million) in October.

Dairy farmers from around Ottawa took their cows and tractors to Parliament Hill this week, to protest the changes they expect in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

This article discusses how emerging markets' blatant usage of protectionism, like that of Brazil raising tariffs on 100 sectors last October (2013) to defend is declining industrial base, is a threat to free trade and WTO's views on the matter.

This article discusses New Zealand honey and how there is an increasingly global demand for manuka honey. This results in "a variety of honey products from different parts of the world claiming to be manuka honey". Now protectionist measurements are asked for in order to protect the local honey.

China is a country that exhibits great trade surplus. This article attempts to account for the phenomenon by addressing on China's weak domestic consumption compared to its exporting power.

TOKYO -- Thanks to the efforts of strawberry growers, scallop catchers and others to promote their wares overseas, Japanese exports of fresh food have grown by leaps and bounds, especially in Asia. Japan's January-July exports of farm produce jumped 40% from the year-earlier period to around 18 billion yen ($148 million), according to the agriculture ministry.

This article talks about Dairy farmers in Ottawa, Canada. They protested against upcoming concessions (lower tarrifs) for the import of Diary, which would allow Canadians to buy more foreign cheese than they can now. However, that would mean that the local diary farmers sell less cheese.

The Solar Trade Association has claimed that as many as 27,000 jobs could be lost if the government presses ahead with plans to cut the feed-in tariff by 87% after commissioning analysis by TBR Economic Research.

This article is taken from The Economics Times. It talks about the price of gold and tries to compare the price of gold in India to that of United State. It talks about the high revenue that will arise as India is approaching Diwali (festival) since there will be more demand for the gold.

The former Vice President Vincent Siew said on Friday Taiwan will have to pay a price if it joins the U.S.-backed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the Chinese-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the future.

this article illustrates the friction caused by Chinese government's new policy of requiring foreign computer companies to make 'backdoors' in their hardwares and softwares. The foreign companies are protesting that such measure is protectionism.

The Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, KY offers local news coverage online. Serving Fayette, Bourbon, Franklin, Clark, Madison, Jessamine, Woodford and Scott counties in Kentucky, Kentucky.com offers local breaking, weather and crime news.

Australia did not get as much access to the US market for sugar under a new Pacific trade deal as it wanted but secured benefits for local industries.

This articles talks about how every EU country's economic growth production and crucial is to the Euro-zone for enhancing the continent as a whole. However, Germany which is of course, one of the EU's leading country in economic growth is now declining constantly. This is will reduce general aggregate supply in EU.

I think this article is really interesting as this is a current economic problem that could affect me as i live in the uk which is also part of the EU. A danger is that if the german economy slows then this could be damaging for the UK's net exports. We currently Germany biggest trade partner. The likelihood would be that consumer spending would lessen as consumer confidence and expectations of the german economy would decrease, consequently this could mean that Germany will import less from the UK and this potentially having consequences for the UK's AD and economy.

This article explains how the sizes of different packaged food categories change in relation to a variation in disposable income and answers questions like: "Do all categories benefit equally from a rise in income, or do some categories decline when incomes rise as consumers trade up to more premium products?" The article suggests how snack bars and baby food the most elastic and bread and pasta the least elastic and more facts.

Malaysian palm oil futures ticked higher today, rising for seven out of 10 sessions and trading just below a 17-month high, with strong global vegetable oil demand and concerns over supplies underpinning the market. Exports of Malaysian palm oil products from February 1-25 rose 1.6% to 1,048,311 tonnes from 1,032,104 tonnes shipped during January 1-25, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said.

This article discusses the concept that when energy stocks declined, other businesses find the balance in demand and supply. However the market is concerned about is a gravitational pull downward due to slower global growth.