Foreign Trade

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product (GDP). While international trade has existed throughout history (for example Uttarapatha, Silk Road, Amber Road, scramble for Africa, Atlantic slave trade, salt roads), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. Carrying out trade at an international level is a complex process when compared to domestic trade. When trade takes place between two or more nations …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 July 2024 English

IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the …


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 June 2024 English

Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when …

ranchos produced abundant wheat and beef, but foreign trade was prohibited by the Laws of the Indies. Also


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 May 2024 English

International investment treaties and their investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system are facing growing scrutiny of how they threaten climate action, environmental protection, and social justice. But what would an alternative …


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 May 2024 English

International investment treaties and their investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system are facing growing scrutiny of how they threaten climate action, environmental protection, and social justice. But what would an alternative …


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 May 2024 English

After the historic adoption of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies in 2022, Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are now negotiating new global disciplines to address more broadly the …


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 May 2024 English

The United States The United Kingdom Australia New Zealand Implications for Canada Policy, Strategy, and Plan Updates Technological Training and Experimentation Allied Relations Procurement JADC2 Conclusion Annex 1: Selected Technological …

for markets because Canada depends heavily on foreign trade. In the modern post-Cold War world, however


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 23 April 2024 English

The use of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) and similar systems in free trade agreements (FTAs) is gaining traction. Will it lead to more sustainable production and consumption globally? Our experts …


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 1 April 2024 English

This report presents the Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of a proposed transport and building infrastructure development on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to promote close and mutually beneficial trade …


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 April 2024 English

The Math The Annual Two-Per-Cent-of-GDP Defence Spending Pledge and its Management Avoiding the Boom-Bust Cycle Envisioning a Canadian Military Funded at Two Per Cent of GDP Multiple Missions Capability Reserve …

for markets because Canada depends heavily on foreign trade. In the modern post-Cold War world, however


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