Much to fear from post-Brexit trade deals with ISDS mechanisms
March 2018
Brexit deal: Hammond says financial services will not be frozen out
Chancellor disputes French minister’s claim that trade deal cannot include financial sector
February 2018
A customs union won’t help – there is no such thing as a ‘soft’ Brexit
Vernon Bogdanor
The real choice facing Britain is stark: between a ‘hard’ Brexit, and staying in the EU, writes academic Vernon Bogdanor
January 2018
Liam Fox’s Pacific plan is toxic. Post-Brexit trade policies need proper scrutiny
Nick Dearden
Joining the dysfunctional Trans-Pacific Partnership would help only big business, writes activist Nick Dearden
November 2017
We can’t leave new trade deals to buccaneers like Liam Fox
Barry Gardiner
Plans to allow government to strike agreements without the oversight of MPs are an assault on parliamentary sovereignty, says shadow secretary of state for international trade, energy and climate change, Barry Gardiner
September 2017
UK debt crisis and the onward march of neoliberalism
Letters: Quantitative easing allowed the wealthy to get out of cash and into assets, writes Martin London; the provisionally passed Ceta deal is TTIP by the back door, says John Airs. Plus letters by David Dodd and Paul Nicolson
June 2017
Hopes of EU-US trade agreement put on ice, say Brussels sources
Uncertainty grows about trade deal with the EU that some in the US felt would be more important to its interests than a post-Brexit deal with Theresa May
April 2017
A US trade deal out of the EU’s Reach would be a health and safety disaster
Geraint Davies
Unsafe products could reach our supermarkets if Britain has to rely on the US Environmental Protection Agency rather than the EU’s ‘precautionary principle’
February 2017
Yes, Ceta is a gold-standard trade deal – for North America’s corporations
Stuart Trew
Stuart Trew
January 2017
Is chlorinated chicken about to hit our shelves after new US trade deal?
The devil is in the detail of post-Brexit trade deals
December 2016
No country with a McDonald’s can remain a democracy
George Monbiot
Economics blog
It's too late for hand-wringing – globalisation is already dead
Bob Swarup
November 2016
Brexit 'secret diplomacy' efforts to include secure reading rooms
Plan for MPs to read paperwork in rooms policed by officers is designed to prevent the leaking of strategy documents
The Guardian view on globalisation: its death is the making of it
Editorial: We may be at a turning point in the nature of capitalism. That may not be such a bad thing
Project Syndicate economists
Does Trump’s election spell globalisation's end?
Barry Eichengreen
Not necessarily … global trade growth has been slowing for years, down to China’s economic deceleration and checks on riskier international lending
