Tag: Trade

Depending on who you talk to, the Ex-Im Bank is either a financial support that U.S. exporters need to compete globally â or government interference in the private-sector lending market, primarily helping big companies that donât need it. (Getty Images File)

The pros and cons of reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank

Carla Kalogeridis · July 25, 2014 9:00 am

Fair Trade brings big sales and a clear conscience

Joyce Rosenberg · July 23, 2014 9:22 pm

In this Saturday, July 19, 2014, photo provided by Stone Brewing Co., Stone Brewing Co. CEO and Co-founder Greg Koch, center, toasts the crowd after announcing the Escondido, Calif., brewery's plan to build a brewery and bistro in Berlin. Stone Brewing Co. is spending about $25 million to renovate a historic gas works building into a brewery, packaging and distribution center, restaurant and garden set to open late next year. Stone Brewing Co., one of the top 10 biggest craft breweries in the U.S., will make beer for its bistro and distribution throughout Germany and Europe. (AP Photo/Stone Brewing Co., Frederik Ferschke)

Thirst for US craft beer grows overseas

Michael Felberbaum · July 21, 2014 4:35 pm

FILE - This undated 2010 file handout photo provided by AquaBounty Technologies shows two same-age salmon, a genetically modified salmon, rear, and a non-genetically modified salmon, foreground. Visions of chlorine-drenched chickens and the prospect of genetically modified "Frankenfood" invading dinner tables across the European Union are proving serious impediments to the signing of a sweeping free trade agreement between the United States and the 28-country bloc. (AP Photo/AquaBounty Technologies) NO SALES

US-EU trade talks sour amid chlorine chicken fears

Juergen Baetz · July 18, 2014 2:58 pm

If you’ve got a small business, odds are the Export-Import Bank isn’t helping you

If you’ve got a small business, odds are the Export-Import Bank isn’t helping you

Veronique de Rugy · July 17, 2014 10:42 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, third right, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, second right, and U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, second left, tour the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China with Chen Fei, left, deputy director of the Badaling Great Wall Special District, and Guo Jiaqiang, right, deputy director of the Badaling Foreign Affairs Office, in Beijing, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

US, China vow to improve cooperation

Bradley Klapper · July 9, 2014 8:46 am

Trade body issues mixed ruling in US-China dispute

Trade body issues mixed ruling in US-China dispute

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 3:43 pm

The reality is that the oil the U.S. produces does not match its refining capacity, and the reason the administration is testing the waters is because overturning the 40-year ban on exports would bring American voters the lower gasoline prices, more jobs and stable global environment that they want. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Allowing crude oil exports will benefit Americans

Guy Caruso · July 6, 2014 10:00 am

In this Monday, April 21, 2014 photo, a worker inspects a crate that will be loaded on the Amsterdam-bound Fortunagracht at the Port of Cleveland in Cleveland. The Commerce Department releases international trade data for May on Thursday, July 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

US trade deficit drops to $44.4 billion in May

Martin Crutsinger · July 3, 2014 1:25 pm

If anyone doubted that politics makes strange bedfellows, consider this: In the battle to renew the Export-Import Bank, Senate Democrats are lining up behind the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, while many Republicans are in sympathy with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the iconic foe of crony capitalism. (Illustration by Chris Henderson/Examiner)

The fight in Congress that has Democrats defending big business

Susan Ferrechio · July 3, 2014 1:15 pm

Amazon vows to fight FTC on kids in-app purchases

Amazon vows to fight FTC on kids in-app purchases

Washington Examiner · July 3, 2014 11:36 am

The subsidies allow politicians to take credit for some corporate revenue, and thus some jobs. Those subsidized deals replace other deals, which would also generate jobs and revenue. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Former economic policy director from Bush administration: ‘Kill the Export-Import Bank’

Timothy P. Carney · July 2, 2014 12:41 pm