Debates over world trade often conflate two distinct issues. The first is how to expand the efficiencies that occur when international trade is broadly balanced and countries are able to benefit from ...

In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by the idea that “unhampered trade dovetailed with peace.” ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have unleashed an unprecedented burst of free trade agreements and negotiations towards them by partners seeking to offset potential ...

As U.S. trade with China exploded in the early 2000's, American manufacturing began to shrivel. Those workers struggled to adapt and find new jobs. It ran counter to how mainstream economics at the ...

Roger Severino insists that the Heritage Foundation still supports free markets and free trade . . . but that it will pursue those goods without sacrificing its “love of faith and family, our national ...

Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide The global trading system that promoted ...

As the United States retreats from free trade leadership, regional and plurilateral groupings are moving to sustain multilateralism. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific ...

We are writing on behalf of a coalition of rights groups and trade unions to express deep concern around the lack of transparency and rights protections in the forthcoming Free Trade Agreement between ...

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Leaders from China and the 11 ASEAN member states shake hands during the 28th ASEAN-China Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 28, 2025 ...

Mr. Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, worked on trade policy while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. During the first game of this year’s World ...

India and New Zealand trade deal makes majority of goods trade "duty free." Bilateral merchandise trade between the two countries was $1.3 billion in 2024–25. This is India's third trade deal this ...