Showing posts with label international trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international trade. Show all posts
Friday, August 1, 2025

US Waitlist Registrants who Received Transplantation Abroad

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 Here's a recent article about patients waiting for a deceased-donor organ transplant in the U.S. who (instead) received one overseas (a...
Monday, July 14, 2025

International trade in prison cells: Sweden and Estonia

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 The Guardian has the story: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners by Miranda Bryant "Sw...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Wine barrels, barrel brokers, and tariffs

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 Wine barrels are traded and reused internationally. The Guardian has the story: Stained, warped and terroir rich: the global and shockingly...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

American guns fuel Haiti's gangs

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The U.S. is an importer of illegal drugs, and an exporter of illegal firearms (i.e. firearms whose sale is legal, even protected in the U.S....
Sunday, January 22, 2023

The trade in guns and drugs on the Mexico-US border

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 It's well known that a lot of illegal drugs enter the U.S. over the border with Mexico.  Less well known in the U.S. is that a lot of g...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Global chocolate production and consumption

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This map  of cocoa production and consumption from the  Cocoa Barometer 2020  would make it easy to guess which way is North (were it not fo...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Global markets in antiquity: olive oil and wine

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Markets are ancient human artifacts, and a recent paper in the EJ suggests that markets of global scale, based on comparative advantage and ...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Plasma and plasma products (such as antibodies) are a big business (and the U.S. dominates the international market)

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These days I'm thinking about corona virus covid-19 convalescent blood plasma, which I blogged about yesterday, and about which I hope ...