When does ordinary horse trading cross a line?
Toronto's Steve Thomas and the Devils' Scott Niedermayer -- former teammates -- were tangled together, the two trading cross-checks and high sticks.
Canada is the United States' No. 1 trading partner, with more than $1 billion in trade crossing the border each day.
After controlling for distance and country size, we find that relative to state-to-state trade, crossing an individual U.S. state's domestic border entails a larger trade barrier than crossing the international U.S. border.
The decision to reopen the trade crossing came out of a meeting last month between President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Called the New International Trade Crossing (NITC), it will connect Detroit and the town of Windsor in Ontario.A quarter of all cross-border trade between the two countries, worth about $680 billion annually, travels over the Detroit river, mainly via the 83-year-old, four-lane Ambassador Bridge (pictured above) but also through some ageing tunnels.
Like many conflicts before it, this one is believed to be over the drug trade, crossing between Vancouver, Surrey, Abbotsford and as far east as Chilliwack, BC.
Increased traffic over the Ambassador Bridge warranted a partnership between Michigan and the Canadian government to build a second bridge span, tentatively dubbed the "New International Trade Crossing".
Maritime trade began with safer coastal trade and evolved with the manipulation of the monsoon winds, soon resulting in trade crossing boundaries such as the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
Fans traded cross-court volleys of song between games, and also did the wave.
