During the recent U.S. presidential campaign, railing against trade became a popular pastime. But it is nothing new. Today on the podcast, we’re looking how efforts to weaken trade have played out in ...

Laffer Associates Founder and Chairman Art Laffer explains why trade promotion authority and free trade deals are essential to economic growth. Photo credit: Associated Press. Pro-growth policies have ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. This article reflects on the outcomes of a workshop at the Fair Trade International Symposium in June 2023 which explored some of the ways ...

-- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- By John Kemp LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - As hopes for reaching a binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the ...

By: Jacques Otumfuo & Albert Derrick Fiatui (CIMAG)Global maritime trade is the invisible engine behind more than 80% of world trade by volume.In the wake of a prolonged pandemic disruption, the past ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. With the phase one trade deal signed—and with China now promising (somewhat ...

As China and the United States continue to challenge the rules-based order, small states will certainly suffer. But they are not the only states at risk. Middle-sized and aspiring powers should be ...

One of the truisms about free trade policies is that they’re not much good without a free market. Voters in the United Kingdom may have struck a blow for freedom--economic and political--when they ...

With all the talk going on about the merits of free trade and the U.S.’s free trade agreements, it might be helpful to look at an example from the past. Debates over free trade vs. protectionism are ...

Jonah Keri is writing for Grantland -- eventually he’ll write everywhere; people from Quebec just get into everything if you let them -- and today has a good piece looking back at some major trade ...