High energy prices unlikely to affect trade, study finds

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Researchers says even a 10-fold rise in EU carbon price would lead to a less than 0.5 per cent drop in exports

A large rise in energy prices would barely affect exports from European industry and the balance of trade, academics have said. In what has been hailed as the first analysis to quantify the effect energy...

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