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 ...

Improved trade relations between the US and China may help lower logistics costs, while previous tensions provided ...

For decades, the liberal belief that open trade fosters peace has shaped US foreign policy. It worked while US security ...

Tariffs have become a prominent policy tool under the current administration, but they represent just one of many ways governments interfere with free trade. Some trade barriers have operated so ...

St. Libory, IL – Soybean farmers across the Midwest are bracing for another difficult year as trade tensions with China cut off their largest export market and rising costs drive profits below ...

D’Addario's task force meets weekly to strategize response to trade war impacts Company plans own free trade zone, reroutes shipments to sidestep tariffs D'Addario estimates tariff bill will triple ...

China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) has entered a one-month countdown to launching island-wide special customs operations, a ...

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 ...

The Federal Government has called on member states of the Union of African Shippers’ Councils (UASC) to take collective action against arbitrary shipping surcharges and unfair freight practices that ...

LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank analysts estimate that the costs to trade between Britain and the European Union will be high even if the two sides manage to strike a deal by the end of the ...

On Oct 28, 2025, during the 28th China-ASEAN Leaders' Meeting, China and ASEAN formally signed the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 Upgrade Protocol (hereinafter "CAFTA 3.0"), marking a new phase in ...