Topic: trade
New shipping link with Jamaica will reduce Cayman’s dependence on the US
Seaboard Marine Ltd. has launched a bi-weekly refrigerated consolidation service between Kingston, Jamaica and Grand Cayman.
Young Caymanian making a splash in dive industry
Young Caymanian Kameron D'Hue joins a select group of local dive instructors after qualifying as an industry professional.
Trade among industrialised nations reaches record high
In a sign of continuing economic recovery since the third quarter of last year, international merchandise trade among G20 nations reached record levels in the first quarter of 2021.
Global trade recovers but container shortage lingers on
The international trade of goods continued to rebound in the final quarter of 2020. Following the pandemic-induced sharp decline in the first half of last year, G20 international merchandise exports were up 7.2% and imports rose 6.8% in the fourth quarter.
Could 2021 be a comeback year for global trade?
While some uncertainty remains, 2021 could be a comeback year for global trade.
Morici: Trade agreements do not threaten US sovereignty
WTO rules were created for market economies adhering to Western concepts of law, and China has taken industrial policy and state-sponsored confiscation of foreign intellectual property and industrial espionage to criminal levels that the WTO was simply not designed to discipline.
Morici: The fourth industrial revolution
Productivity growth, after languishing during the Obama presidency, is taking off again.
Will: America’s disturbing plunge into protectionism
Tariffs are taxes collected at the border and paid in one way or another by various residents of the importing nation.
Morici: Trade war could end in a stalemate
Industry leaders almost always dislike changes in the regulatory environment.
Bershidsky: All tariffs must go
Abolishing tariffs would be a good start, if only because it would help take trade out of the populist realm of simple solutions and back into negotiating rooms filled with detail-oriented professionals.
Eliminate unilateralism in trade
Taking into account their positions as economic powers, both countries have to do their utmost to avert a game of tit for tat.
Morici: Donald Trump’s long game with China
Beijing and local governments, with the collaboration of its technology giants, are funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into startups and big company projects that enjoy notably more freedom than Western companies.
Morici: Tariffs are Trump’s first test of China and the WTO
China has targeted one U.S. industry after another – metals, solar panels, computer chips, artificial intelligence and supercomputers – many having significant economic and national security consequences.
Rahn: With his tariff proposals, Trump misses the trade basics
Why does Virginia import oranges from Florida rather than grow its own? Why does the U.S. import almost all of its coffee and cocoa beans from countries in tropical climates rather than grow its own? Why does the U.S. import most of its primary aluminum rather than produce its own?
Mitchell: Hopes and fears for policy in 2018
Let’s speculate about potential victories and defeats in 2018.
Morici: Economic nationalism is a losing strategy
Instead of rallying American allies to confront China’s mercantilism through joint action, Mr. Trump has bullied Mexico, South Korea and Canada, pulled America out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and derailed free trade talks with the EU.
Will: The radiating mischief of protectionism
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive ourselves into believing that corporate welfare can be seemly.
Morici: When workers cannot or will not compete, investment suffers
Skepticism is growing among economists – and more importantly business decision makers – that Mr. Trump and Republicans in Congress will appreciably lower the cost of investing in the United States.
Time for Trump to embrace free trade
According to one study, 88 percent of manufacturing job losses are the result of improved productivity, not rapacious Chinese.
Old ideas about foreign trade are being retired
According to Hausmann and Hidalgo, countries are better off when they can make a multitude of things.
Honduran president visits Cayman
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will be paying Cayman a brief visit on Friday.
Imports, flights to Roatan on the table
The prospect of direct flights and food imports from Roatan were discussed Tuesday when government and airline officials made a flying visit to the Honduran island.
With lower oil prices, Cayman imports more gas, cars
Cayman imported more cars and more gasoline to fuel them in 2015 amid sharp declines in oil prices, according to a new report from the Economics and Statistics Office.
