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Trade and development

News, comment and features on trade and the developing world

May 2024

  • Workers at the Saltaire Woollen Mill, Bradford, North Yorkshire, England in the late 19th century.

    Free trade shift shows US dominance is coming to an end

    Letter: This move will not be lost on the poorer nations, as they too will wish to protect their young industries, writes Dr Roger van Zwanenberg
  • Flanked by US labour union representatives, Joe Biden signs off tariff increases on Chinese imports in the Rose Garden at the White House on 14 May.

    The Guardian view on free trade: an idea whose time has gone

    Editorial: Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on tariffs against China. The world has lost its biggest cheerleader for globalisation
  • Oliver Dowden shakes hands with Saudi officials outside a building where a large freestanding lettering saying Great Futures can be seen

    ‘Art-washing’? Unease as British cultural institutions lend lustre to Saudi trade push

    Campaigners say move to use the arts to reinforce economic ties with Riyadh may help to launder Gulf state’s human rights record

January 2024

  • Fishers push a boat on the beach at San Juanico on the coast of north-west Mexico

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed

    Local fishers helped halt underwater mining off Baja California’s coast in 2018. But then an obscure international legal process was put into motion

September 2023

  • Ursula von der Leyen simultaneously clasps the hands of Narendra Modi (to her right) and Joe Biden (to her left) in front of a screen promoting the Partnership for Global Infrastructure Investment at India's G20 summit

    G20: EU and US back trade corridor linking Europe, Middle East and India

    Joe Biden describes ambitious rail and sea plan to counter China’s Belt and Road project as a ‘really big deal’

August 2023

  • Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, in evening wear

    Rishi Sunak faces fresh conflict of interest row over India trade talks

    Labour has called for more financial transparency after it was revealed the prime minister’s wife’s shares could benefit from the agreement

July 2023

  • The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at a press conference at the end of EU-Celac summit in Brussels, Belgium, on 18 July

    EU to invest €45bn in Latin America and Caribbean

    Package includes projects to extract minerals, electrify bus fleets and help protect Amazon rainforest

April 2023

  • A government food distribution point in Peshawar, Pakistan, 10 April 2023

    The world desperately needs a fairer economy – here’s how we can make that happen

    Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
    Inflation and the climate crisis are hitting developing economies hardest. Trade is the key to helping them, say Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization

November 2022

  • Grain trucks form a line behind a wheat field in Odesa where they wait to unload at the Black Sea port.

    Kyiv opens Grain from Ukraine scheme to get food to Africa’s poorest countries

  • Rishi Sunak at a working session during the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.

    Sunak hints he will slow down progress on India trade deal

September 2022

  • A policeman looks at a container full of bales of plastic waste

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    NGO retracts ‘waste colonialism’ report blaming Asian countries for plastic pollution

    Ocean Conservancy apologises for ‘false narrative’ of 2015 study that put blame for bulk of world’s plastic waste on five Asian states

June 2022

  • A trawler off the French coast

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    First WTO deal on fishing subsidies hailed as historic despite ‘big holes’

    Environment groups welcome long-awaited deal to curb harmful subsidies but say key measures to curb overfishing were dropped

April 2022

  • Women and men model designs from Return to Sender, the first collection from Buzigahill, a Ugandan fashion brand created by designer Bobby

    Right back at you: the Ugandan designer returning the west’s cast-offs

  • U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks at the Atlantic Council in Washington<br>U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen makes a speech about the current and future state of the U.S. and global economy at the Atlantic Council in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis

    G20 delegates to stage protests against Russia over Ukraine war

March 2022

  • People in Khartoum protest against the military’s seizure of power.

    Opinion
    Sudan’s military is brutally suppressing protests – global action is needed

    Mohamed Osman
  • Men wait for bread at a hatch at a bakery

    ‘We need bread’: fears in Middle East as Ukraine war hits wheat imports

February 2022

  • A health worker administers Covid vaccines in Johannesburg

    Trade rules have thwarted global efforts to fight Covid. The WTO must deliver on a vaccine IP waiver

    Patricia Ranald
    Low-income countries need access to technology and knowledge to produce their own vaccines, treatments and tests

December 2021

  • WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

    End trade barriers to help tackle climate crisis, says WTO chief

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala calls for changes to ensure developing nations are resilient to affects of extreme weather

November 2021

  • Burnt land next to a palm oil plantation in Central Kalimantan

    Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people

    Growing rush for land is destroying ecosystems and disrupting lives to satisfy global demand for goods, study warns

October 2021

  • The European Commission’s executive vice-president, Frans Timmermans, and commissioner Paolo Gentiloni at a press conference on the CBAM in July.

    EU carbon border levy could sabotage climate goals, says thinktank

    Requiring carbon certificates could lead African producers to sell in markets with lower standards
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