New Internationalist 334May 2001

WTO / TERMS Charles Dickens used ‘topsy-turvy’ to describe an inversion of the familiar order of things. International trade does this to language. Here are some of the jargon words: how they are used by trade negotiators – and what they really mean for the rest of us.

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