The initial ruling, by the Court of International Trade, brought the low-profile judicial body to the world’s attention. The court’s panel of three judges unanimously sided with businesses and states ...

President Trump, who disabled the World Trade Organization during his first term, is going after international free trade rules in place since the 1940s. By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who covered ...

To many today, the idea that free trade brings peace looks like bygone naïveté at best and neoliberal apologism at worst. Contrary to the aspirations of the late twentieth-century free trade moment, ...

HONG KONG — When President Donald Trump announced he would impose new tariffs on imports from countries around the world, he launched a frontal attack on the global free trade system created in the ...

International trade around the world has sagged despite moderate economic growth. Reshoring and de-globalization, two related concepts with slightly different emphases, seem be responsible. The global ...

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 ...

Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it sound as if we must choose between liberal trade policies and solving important policy problems at home. That’s a false choice.

The decline of the Soviet Union in the 1980s profoundly changed the environment for U.S. trade policy. Trade relationships that disproportionately benefited America’s partners lost a crucial ...

But many Americans aren't listening. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University, conducted in late January, found that 42% of Americans believe tariffs will help the U.S. economy. The United States' ...

The benefits lower wage production from "free trade" accrue to the producers and distributors of goods, not consumers, because consumers will pay the going price, wherever a good is made. Tariffs will ...

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 ...