Recent discussions about international trade have centered on the United States’ economic relationships with Canada and Mexico, particularly regarding trade deficits. Claims suggest that the United ...

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are formal arrangements between countries. Their purpose is to reduce or eliminate barriers to the exchange of goods and services; they do this in an assortment of ways, ...

“I think free trade has been dead and probably been dead for a while and isn't looking good for any time in the near future,” said Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International ...

As economic security policies gain ground across major APEC economies, the forum has remained largely silent on the issue. While framed as national security, these policies often undermine the liberal ...

This commitment is epitomized by the full conclusion of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 upgrade negotiations, which was announced in May and is an achievement that promises to bolster economic ...

As the Trump administration forges ahead with its “America First” tariff policies, advanced economies, China, and countries in the Global South are each responding in their own ways, while claiming to ...

U.S. trade policy today is a roller coaster, and the only thing predictable about it is its unpredictability. Tariffs, which Donald Trump once called “the most beautiful word in the... The expansion ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World ...

This week, President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that "tariff" is "the most beautiful word in the dictionary" and claimed that tariffs would "make our country rich." All of that is standard ...

On April 2, as he imposed exorbitant tariffs that triggered a stock market collapse, Donald Trump said this: “For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near ...

Mr. Lighthizer, the author of “No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking On China, and Helping America’s Workers,” was the U.S. trade representative in the first Trump administration. The ...

After decades of shouting into the void that free trade is good, those of us in the "eliminate tariffs, embrace comparative advantage, and let me buy my haggis-flavored chips online without an import ...