EVEN now, after all we’ve been through, something is still wrong with Wall Street. That’s the takeaway from the extraordinary — and extraordinarily public — resignation of Greg Smith from Goldman Sachs last week.

With the EU regularly being ranked a top-five export market for South Korea, the two signed an FTA in 2009. But while interest in future cooperation is high, deeper engagement beyond the FTA is unlikely, since neither side plays an important role in the basic security issues of the other.

(Reuters) - Underdogs fighting off a foreign invasion or small-time hopefuls competing against all odds for the spotlight. Those could be plot lines for Hollywood scripts - or the real world plight of China's movie producers, now that Beijing has approved imports of a new wave of American blockbusters. A deal hammered out during Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States last month paved the way for the import of 14 premium format films, such as IMAX or 3D, which will be exempt from China's annual quota of 20 foreign films per year.

The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (Agreement) entered into force on March 15, 2012. One of the Agreement’s principal benefits is reduced duties on originating goods traded between the United States and the Republic of Korea (Korea). Companies should not, however, assume that all goods made in the United States or Korea qualify as originating goods.

A World Trade Organization appeals panel on Monday upheld a ruling that Boeing received billions of dollars in improper subsidies from federal and state governments that helped it beat European rival Airbus out of dozens of airplane contracts.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has stated that the prospective Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade partners – Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US, and Vietnam – made further strong headway during the recent eleventh round of negotiations in Melbourne. Over the nine days of talks, more than 20 working groups met to discuss the legal texts of the agreement, which cover all aspects of the commercial relations between the TPP countries.

HA NOI – Pakistan is Viet Nam's largest tea importer, said a representative of the Africa, Western and Southern Asia Market Department at a meeting about tea trade between Viet Nam and Pakistan . The meeting was hosted online yesterday by the Africa, Western and Southern Asia Markets Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) and the Pakistan Tea Association.

(Reuters) - The European Union, United States and Japan formally asked the World Trade Organization on Tuesday to settle a dispute with China over Beijing's restriction on exports of raw materials, including rare earth elements critical to electronics makers.

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Tuesday that it will properly deal with a dispute settlement request on rare earth made by three major economies in accordance with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. The European Union, United States and Japan on Tuesday formally asked the WTO to settle a dispute with China over restrictions placed on exports of raw materials including rare earth elements. The MOC confirmed in a statement posted on its website that it has received the request for dispute settlement.

HONG KONG — A month after Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States and Europe, the brief trade policy détente between China and its two biggest export markets is about to end. Five separate issues — involving auto parts, cars, solar panels, anti-subsidy laws and rare earth metals — are the subject of separate initiatives by American officials, European officials or both.