大象传媒

The EU and the US are seeking to create the world's largest free trade area. Can they do it? The former UK Trade Minister, Lord Digby Jones, and the leading international trade lawyer, Frank Samolis, of the firm Patton Boggs in Washington, give their assessments. Also, we mark the final closure of the British car plant making Europe's favourite commercial goods vehicle. We report on how the Ford Transit van became an icon of an entire British social class. And our reporter in Taiwan reflects on its latest response to tax-dodging: introducing a national lottery to make consumer shop receipts a prized commodity.