From a Q & A session after some recent remarks by Obama: Q    Yes, okay, it has to do with international patent rights.  With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over

From the Comptuer & Communications Industry Association: WHY IS CENSORSHIP A TRADE ISSUE? The United States is an information economy, and U.S. companies are leading vendors of information products and services. In this context, information discrimination fundamentally undermines market access for electronic commerce, and combating it should top our

I see a lot of talk these days by the Obama administration about "high standard" trade agreements (e.g., here).  They also refer to "21st century" trade agreements, presumably to convey a similar idea. So what do they mean by a "high standard" agreement?

Phil Levy of AEI tries to define modern protectionism: To better recognize protectionism in its modern guises, we offer three broad categories of protectionist measures: Intentional protectionism encompasses measures that are explicitly intended to favor domestic industry over imports. Incidental protectionism occurs when measures can be readily justified on other