I will be talking about one means by which access issometimes entirely prevented--by the imposition of taxes and tariffs on medicines and medical devices in many countries of the world.

If demand falls because of airline tariff increases, it is economy class holiday-makers who will probably be hardest hit, affecting not only airlines but the entire tourism industry.

Panelists will explore the issue of border adjustments.

In the wake of this week's progress on advancing the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, most of the U.S. criticism, naturally, argues that the agreement is not in the U.S. interest.

Today Britain has the highest explicit tariffs on air travel of any nation, and this is set to increase in November.  Recent research shows how US travelers might react to such tariffs.

For the WTO to seize the mantle of global trade promotion, it must actually commit itself to promoting free trade.

In this poor economic environment, trade protectionism should be seen as a threat to prosperity, in Australia and around the world.

There is a disconnect between U.S. policymakers' sense of what global rules of economic conduct ought to say and what they actually say, and a meeting with a pre-set mandate to address imbalances would offer the best opportunity to defuse some of those festering tensions.