Coming just days after WTO officials vowed to continue fighting domestic protectionism, here is an example of the harm caused by “protection” sought by vested interests – at the expense of everyone else.

Happy New Year! Here at IPN we are already working hard to help make 2010 a good year for freedom… and a bad year for organisations that receive taxpayers’ money to promote increased spending by government.

New anti-counterfeiting laws may not be a silver bullet against dangerous fake products, but Sisule Musungu is wrong to claim that IP protection cannot affect the quality of goods—and way off the mark in his conspiracy theories about IP being a sinister trade tool of “the West”.

Following on from our previous investigation of how "foreign aid" is being used for advocacy work by NGOs inside the UK, IPN has discovered that trades unions are benefiting from millions of money aimed at "international development".

While most of us were enjoying our Christmas turkey, Obama, Hu and the EU bureaucrats were busy at work implementing a bit of festive protectionism. They all imposed new- or extended old- tariffs on imported goods over the holiday period.