Panama hats: made in Ecuador, undercut by China
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CUENCA, Ecuador  - Ecuadoreans have mostly swallowed their chagrin and accepted that their most famous export will for evermore be known as the "Panama hat".
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The humble cotton sock has become the center of an international trade dispute.
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On my desk, as a reminder of baseball's biggest trend, sits the hat of the team that could claim it was world champ this year. The cap does not say "St. Louis." It reads "Japan," the country that beat Cuba to win the World Baseball Classic in March. The United States? With Roger Clemens and Alex...
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NEW YORK - Defending World Cup champion Brazil suffered the most shocking result of the day, but China was the biggest loser. The Brazilians lost to Ecuador for the just the second time in their history.
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Peruvian alpaca herders are turning to technology to thwart a growing problem of the high Andes Mountains: the smuggling of prize-winning, wool-producing alpacas to neighboring countries.
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Ecuador upset Brazil 1-0 Wednesday to send the World Cup champions to their first loss in qualifying for the 2006 tournament, and China was eliminated on the fifth tiebreaker despite a 7-0 victory over visiting Hong Kong.
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Rafael CorreaÂs rise in Ecuador points to how varied, and persistent, the leftist groundswell has become in Latin America.
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It may be the factory to the world, but China's consumers aren't exactly splashing out. And credit cards are not widely accepted
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Beijing this weekend urged Washington, DC, not to limit imports of Chinese cotton slacks. The Ministry of Commerce said such a restriction would violate World Trade Organization principles and hurt trade relations.
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Fancy a sleek made-in-North Korea SUV? How about a pair of boxing gloves from the famously pugnacious communist country? They're potentially just a click away.
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Life & style: Britain's design talent is relying on cheap prices and an influx of new buyers from China and India
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China, already a manufacturing  powerhouse, is flexing its financial muscles as companies based  there snatch up famous-name products from established companies  in the United States and Europe looking to divest low-margin  businesses.
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Panama, who will play the United States in the quarterfinals of the Gold Cup, is a prime example of a traditionally weaker Central American team that has elevated its level of play.
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Production of even top-of-the-line brands like Tony Lama is shifting to China and Mexico.
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Ecuador wants $3.5 billion ... or else the killing begins.
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Don't tell the children, but Santa's elves' North Pole jobs have been outsourced. Eighty percent of the world's toys , according to investigative journalist Eric Clark, were made in China's Pearl River Delta. In his provocative new book, "The Real Toy Story," Clark calls that part of the world's most-populous country "Santa's Sweatshop."
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Los Angeles Times - IQUITOS, Peru &#8212; A few miles downriver from this city in the western Amazon jungle, Andres Alvarado hops off a boat and walks up a muddy path to a hollowed-out log resting on a wooden stand. He beats the log with a stick, sending a series of low-pitched tones into the rain forest.