Heineken’s expansion into the cider market helped boost its Irish revenues and market share last year.

Mexico will spend about US$50m (€47m) to hire lawyers for migrants facing deportation in the United States.

Mexico's new foreign relations secretary says the country is not only willing to negotiate changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, it wants negotiations as soon as possible.

We are in a brief hiatus in the negotiations between the EU and US on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 

Hillary Clinton’s political allies would like Democrats to believe she is closer to potential primary rival Elizabeth Warren on issues than her previous record would suggest, according to David Sirota.

I AGREE with the opinions expressed in your editorial headlined ‘Immigrants and emigrants.

Democrat Barack Obama lashed out today at rival for the party’s presidential nomination Hillary Clinton, mocking her sudden vocal support for gun rights and saying he understands the concerns of working class people.

WORLD trade agreements are bad enough, when it comes to manufactured items and services.

Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama clashed over negative campaign tactics, the Iraq war, and trade in their last debate before crucial primary elections next week.

DEMOCRATS in Wisconsin and Hawaii headed to the polls yesterday in a presidential campaign that has grown increasingly negative with charges of broken promises, plagiarism and petty partisanship.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez rallied thousands of leftist sympathisers after a South American trade summit at Cordoba, in Argentina, railing against the US-backed free market policies they blame for many of Latin America’s woes.

A CROWD of 10,000 protesters chanting “Get out Bush!” swarmed the streets of the Argentine resort of Mar Del Plata yesterday, hours before the hemisphere’s leaders sat down to debate free trade, immigration and job creation.

Democratic front-runner John Kerry scored victories in the Idaho caucuses and Utah primaries, and looked ahead to more good fortune in the Hawaii contest, the last before a climactic 10-state round next week.

US president George Bush went on the attack today as he launched his re-election campaign, casting Democratic front-runner John Kerry as indecisive and warning that the party would raise taxes, expand the government and fail to lead on national security.