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 ...

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

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 ...

The Institute for Business in Global Society will host its next debate in November, discussing a topic that impacts almost every company in America: Is the world better off without free trade? The ...

Trump has been obsessed with unbalanced trade, which he sees as a justification for his beautiful destructive tariff regimes.

Donald Trump is hoping his tariffs will goad his liberal opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class. Democrats don’t have to take the bait. To tariff or not to tariff? Today’s ...

President Donald Trump’s protectionist stance is undoing decades of free trade policies. Since taking office for his second term, Trump has imposed a series of tariffs on goods and countries, which ...

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 ...

When President Donald Trump announced a barrage of punishing tariffs on April 2—“Liberation Day”—he promised a new “golden age” for America where “jobs and factories will come roaring back into our ...