As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

There are better alternatives… Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.