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title: "Global Support for International Trade"
description: "In all 47 nations included in a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, large majorities say international trade is a good thing for their countries."
date: "2007-10-17"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/10/17/global-support-for-international-trade/"
---

# Global Support for International Trade

In all 47 nations included in a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, large majorities say international trade is a good thing for their countries. In nine countries, at least 90% of respondents support international trade. Positive views of international trade are particularly widespread in Africa, the world’s poorest region. More than eight-in-ten people in the 10 African nations surveyed believe that trade ties are having a positive impact. Interestingly, the country with the world’s largest economy is the least likely among surveyed countries to embrace global trade. Just 59% of Americans say trade with other countries is having a good effect on the U.S., down sharply from 2002, when 78% believed it was having a postive impact. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/607/global-trade-immigration)