The clear way through trade barriers
13 September 2012
The tendency to protect domestic markets from foreign suppliers is a powerful one, as events in Europe and the US have shown. Robin Parker looks at how purchasers can resist it
Political tensions in the international arena have rarely been higher than in the preparations for war against Iraq. But the cordiality extended to President Bush under the UK’s so-called “special relationship” is not shared by all of our European cousins, who remain divided on his bullish stance on a conflict whose outcome remains unknown.
This battle of wills...