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 ...

When commerce minister Piyush Goyal declared that India's interests had been "fully protected" in the newly signed India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA), few expected the most contentious clauses to be ...

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

More than 100 days into his second term, President Trump’s international agenda is beginning to take shape. Domestically, he has focused on immigration and administrative efficiency, while ...

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 ...

Update as of May 29, 2025: The appeals court has stayed the U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling while it reviews the arguments in the case, including the administration’s request for a longer ...

Washington D.C. — In six months, the Trump administration’s trade agenda has isolated the United States on the world stage, jeopardized millions of American jobs, and made the average U.S. household ...

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 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 ...