Two-pronged approach. On paper, nothing has changed. All the statements and policy documents on the future of global trade from Brussels and elsewhere are at pains to set out in the list of aims and fine intentions that the freeing up of trade shall continue. Expanding trade has always been seen, and rightly so, as a key positive area of human progress. Trade allows people to expand their knowledge, different civilisations come into contact with one another and things discovered by one group...