I wrote two columns on trade liberalisation in Financial Express:

Where did the Bombay Club go wrong?
Trade liberalisation: Looking beyond the WTO

Also see:

Protectionism by India, as seen at Global Trade Alert.
The [...]

The World Bank has recently released the latest Doing Business 2010 report, measuring the level of business and economic regulation around the world. In spite of the financial crisis and the global recession, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United States retained the leadership as the most friendly locations for doing business. Notably, some [...]

Voluntary trade ensures that people only deal with others when they expect to be better off after the trade.

On February 25, 2009, Henry Seggerman-who manages the successful Korean International Investment Fund, was the guest speaker at a Korea Society (based in New York City) symposium entitled The Perils of Protectionism: Korea’s Investment Challenge. He is also a noted columnist for the Korea Times and a contributor to other noteworthy publications such as the Wall [...]

One issue that differentiates economists from the vast majority of the general public is free trade. Economists overwhelmingly support international trade, with little or no regulation or taxation, and abhor protectionism—trade policies designed to “protect” domestic jobs. Meanwhile, upwards of 80% of American citizens believe that the U.S. government should be protectionist—or at least that’s [...]