Ireland is facing a fresh Brexit cliff edge with the UK formally leaving the European Union tomorrow night at 11pm, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has warned.

In 2020, the world will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberal international order, writes Klaus Schwab.

The trouble with paying too much attention to social media is that one risks becoming brainwashed with the drivel that passes for discourse on many social media channels.

Europe is arming itself for a more lawless world of trade and the bloc’s sights are on the US.

The EU’s policy toolkit is not well suited for exercising power abroad, writes Daniel Gros

Sterling has remained very range-bound against the euro in the past couple of weeks, after making big gains in mid-October on news of an agreement on a revised Brexit deal.

The imposition of tariffs by the United States will pose significant challenges for Irish exporters of agri-food products to that country.

A faceoff between the US and EU over jetliner tariffs risks making travel more expensive for passengers, the world’s biggest long-haul airline has warned.

IFA president Joe Healy said the risk of US tariffs was already priced into international dairy market trends.

If the ever-increasing flow of corporation tax from American multinationals with Irish bases to national coffers seems too good to be true it may be because it probably is.

Fears have been raised that Irish goods could be dragged into

Meeting up with Phil Hogan in Dublin in recent days, there was clearly an awareness of the importance and challenges his new portfolio of EU Trade Commissioner carried, not least because of the tense time in Brexit negotiations, but also because of the instability and tension in global trade.

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to ram home hard Brexiteer policy by playing with the House of Commons rules, writes Eddie Hobbs

Donald Trump wants Brexit to be a success, with the UK being “first in line” for a trade deal with the US, possibly on a gradual “sector-by-sector” basis, according to his national security adviser.

The start of any European Commission brings with it a sense of hope, a sense of new beginnings and new possibilities and a feeling curiosity in the face of the unknown personalities taking up the lead roles for the 27 countries of Europe.

Asia has long benefitted from the movement of goods and people and is advocating a similar policy for data, ‘free flow with trust’, says Shinzo Abe ahead of the G20 summit

The European Commission was given the green light last week to begin talks with the US on agreements to enable tariffs on industrial goods to be slashed by €26bn.

It would indeed be ironic if a Brexit Britain were to be an early casualty of an imploding global trade order but institutions like the WTO have also served Ireland well, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The European Commission has drawn up a list of US imports worth around €20bn that it could hit with tariffs over a transatlantic aircraft subsidy dispute, EU diplomats said.

Dairygold’s capital investments have fuelled its expansion in milk processing to 1.34bn litres in 2018, up 500m litres since 2009, with plans to exceed 1.65bn litres by 2023.

Dairygold's revenues are an all-time high of almost €1 billion. The company's directors talk to Joe Dermody

The latest twist in the Brexit saga, promising as it may be politically, does nothing to ease the plight of businesses trading with the UK.

The policy manager for the Freight Transport Association of Northern Ireland has warned that a no deal Brexit is a “Withdrawal Agreement 2.0” which could mean a border in the Irish Sea as well as a hard border between the Republic and the North.

Agriculture minister Michael Creed has promised farmers a “substantial” aid package if they suffer losses as a result of new UK tariffs under a no-deal Brexit.

The Irish Exporters Association has said it believes the UK’s proposed tariff regime in the event of a no-deal Brexit is against World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.

Donald Trump’s trade strategies regarding China are designed to allow the US intervene in any potential free-trade deals between the EU or UK and the Asian giant, says Daniel Gros TWO recent developments are bringing America’s trade strategy toward China into focus.

Government supports for Irish firms trading in continental Europe are "too little too late" because of the focus on cross-border business, a Cork-based medical service exporter has said.

Whether the UK leaves the EU on the March 29, or there is an extension for a short period, the general consensus is they are going to leave and that there will be a hard Brexit.

A new Brexit plan which is reported to be backed by members of both the Remain and Leave camps of the Conservative party has been put forward.

Impatient with a lack of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules to cover the explosive growth of e-commerce, 76 countries and regions including the EU, US, and Japan have agreed to start negotiating a set of open and predictable regulations.

The vast majority of small and medium businesses have no experience of dealing with customs and Brexit is going to cause huge problems for them says CEO.

China's slowing growth, Brexit woes and US-China trade disputes pose risks to the world economy, Japan's prime minister has said.

Trinity College Dublin has voiced its concerns about the impact of Brexit on Ireland-UK research links, in a free ad in the Financial Times.

Is it time to redouble Ireland’s efforts to attract US corporations to invest in the economy? asks Joe Gill.

The future trading relationship between the EU and the UK is obviously the most crucial question of all from an Irish perspective. says Jim Power.

African leaders have signed what is being called the largest free trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organisation.