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Trade in Everything: Orchestral Manoeuvres in North Korea

From the AP: Her mother's town was briefly occupied by North Korea . Her father survived the communists during the Korean War by hiding in the mountains. "It just kind of feels that the stuff that happened in the past or what's going on there makes

Trade in Everything: Dental Services

Reuters reports: It was fear of the hefty bill as much as fear of the drill that kept American musician Don Clay away from U.S. dental clinics for 30 years. Shrugging off concerns about hygiene and Mexico 's brutal drug war, thousands of Americans are heading to Ciudad

Trade in Everything: Live Cattle and "Pregnant Heifers"

Reader Perry Bechky points me to a NAFTA Chapter 11 ruling from a couple days ago, in which the Tribunal rejected an investment claim related to trade restrictions on certain live cattle coming from Canada into the U.S. The basic finding was that the Canadians had no investment in

Trade in Everything: Japanese Food

AFP reports: Japan launched a campaign Tuesday to certify authentic Japanese food overseas, but insisted it was only promoting its cuisine rather than setting up a "sushi police." The effort is led by a non-governmental group of experts set up in July with the blessing of the agriculture

Trade in Everything: Soccer Players

From the AP: Argentine midfielder Marcelo Gallardo signed with D.C. United on Monday, the biggest of five South American additions to the club within the past week. The team also added Peruvian goalkeeper Jose Carvallo and Argentine defender Gonzalo Peralta on Monday as the team held its first preseason

Trade in Everything: Medical Tourism

From the NY Times, a report on U.S. men going to Mexico for a controversial medical treatment: PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Some weekends, more than a dozen American men wait at beachfront hotels, anxious for their turns in the treatment room at a small private hospital here. They are medical

Trade in Everything: English Teachers

From the Korea Times: Foreign envoys whose countries adopt English as an official language criticize what they call Korea's discriminative visa regulations against foreign English teachers. Korea allows English teaching or E-2 visas to only native-English speakers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South

Trade in Everything: Hockey and Hockey Players

From the Palm Beach Post: Globalization. With more than 35 percent of [National Hockey League] players from Europe, there's a keen interest in taking more games overseas and even establishing teams there. "Growing the revenues of the sport is a huge issue," Kelly said. "Should

Trade in Everything: Doctors Without Borders

From Dani Rodrik (via the Center for Global Development ): Seventy-five percent of Mozambican physicians practice abroad, mostly in Portugal. The corresponding numbers for Ghana and Cameroon are 56% and 46% respectively.

Trade in Everything (New Year's Eve Edition): (Alleged) Hallucinogens

From the Palm Beach Post: Blame Johnny Depp's dazed bathtub scene in 2001's From Hell for making absinthe popular. Blame the fall of the Berlin Wall for making it available. It was the post-Soviet Czech Republic that gleefully jumped on the absinthe manufacturing bandwagon. The Czech