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House passes Russian trade deal, but Moscow isn’t happy
Ignoring threats of retaliation from Moscow, the House of Representatives passed a long-delayed trade deal with Russia on Friday, adding language aimed at cracking down on human rights abuses. | 11/16/12 16:56:25 By - By Rob Hotakainen
A jobs market bright spot? ‘App economy’ sizzles
Ross Waycaster designed the first of his four mobile apps as a high school senior in Tupelo, Miss., a game called Super Marrio Jump that’s been downloaded from the Apple store more than 20,000 times, earning him more than $16,000. | 11/15/12 13:28:12 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Post-elections, trade deals might face more opposition
As one of the first major acts in its lame-duck session, the House of Representatives is expected to vote to approve permanent trade relations with Russia, possibly by Friday, but free-trade deals might face a considerably tougher go in 2013. | 11/14/12 16:19:27 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Gov. Gregoire presses feds to respond to Wash. state’s legalization of marijuana
With Washington state set to decriminalize the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana on Dec. 6, Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire is eager to know how the federal government will respond. | 11/13/12 17:11:35 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Romney’s Jeep charge highlights globalization’s gray areas
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been roundly criticized for insinuating that Chrysler planned to reopen a Jeep plant in China at the expense of U.S. workers in Ohio, but his comments and the reaction they provoked underscore the complex gray areas of international trade and globalization. | 11/01/12 19:48:51 By - By Kevin G. Hall and Rob Hotakainen
Mississippi is eager to capitalize on trade with Russia
When the Russian steel company Severstal broke ground on a $550 million expansion of its plant last November in Columbus, Miss., the state’s newly elected governor, Republican Phil Bryant, showed up for the grand opening. | 10/31/12 16:00:02 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Georgia aims to cash in on Russian trade
Few states are as eager to increase trade with Russia as Georgia, the home of corporate giants Coca-Cola Co. and Delta Air Lines and more than 3,600 international facilities from 60 countries. | 10/25/12 17:15:03 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Internet allows even smallest businesses to go global, panel says
Business and government experts gather to ponder the changing face of trade and to examine how the Internet is shrinking the world for consumers and exporters. | 10/24/12 17:27:26 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Ag secretary says U.S. needs to spend more to promote record-high farm exports
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday that U.S. farm exports are on pace to set a record high in 2013 but that sales will suffer if Congress does not resurrect a $200 million-a-year foreign marketing program that expired Oct. 1. | 10/18/12 16:20:33 By - By Rob Hotakainen
U.S. traders eager to cash in on Russia pact, but it’s stalled in Congress
When Russia formally joined the World Trade Organization as its newest member in August, more than 150 countries began expanding trade with the ninth-largest economy in the world. | 10/18/12 16:04:43 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Democrats say fight for Senate control could hinge on women
When Patty Murray first won election to the U.S. Senate in November 1992, women were a rarity, holding only two seats. The Washington state Democrat arrived for her new job to discover there was no bathroom for women near the Senate chamber. | 10/17/12 18:06:33 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Protecting U.S. jobs in trade pact could hurt global AIDS fight, critics say
If drug companies working in North Carolina and elsewhere get their way in protecting brand-name drugs in a new international trade deal, critics fear that millions of people with AIDS in poor countries will go untreated, losing access to cheaper generics that could keep them alive. | 10/12/12 19:03:46 By - By Rob Hotakainen
Study: 40 percent of Washington state jobs now tied to global trade
International trade now accounts for 40 percent of all jobs in Washington and is the largest single driver of the state’s economy, according to a report to be released Tuesday morning. | 10/02/12 06:00:00 By - By Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers
Risking trade war, administration sides with Florida tomato growers in dispute with Mexico
Rejecting warnings that it could ignite a trade war, the Obama administration on Thursday said it planned to change its tomato-trading rules with Mexico, siding with Florida growers who complained that a glut of imports threatened to shut down the U.S. industry. | 09/27/12 17:40:10 By - By Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers
Indian Affairs nominee wins backing from Senate panel, vows more power for tribes
Growing up in rural Oklahoma on the reservation of the Chickasaw Nation, Kevin Washburn spent a lot of time at the local hospital, waiting hours with his mother and brother, who needed asthma treatments. | 09/20/12 17:44:17 By - By Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers
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