U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer left Washington last week. Making the case for a U.S.-U.K. Trade agreement should have been at the top of his agenda, but any discussion of trade was unfortunately ...

An old Chinese proverb says “It is better to break one finger than to injure ten." It reveals a lot about "free trade" versus ...

After four rounds of negotiations and dozens of technical meetings, the Chinese and Ecuadorian teams successfully closed negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries at the ...

The global trade landscape is shifting, and not in the way free traders had hoped. For decades, the belief that economic openness could foster peace and stability reigned supreme. Trade, it was argued ...

Ukraine's top trade official said President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed a free trade agreement with the United States in a letter to President Donald Trump. Taras Kachka, Ukraine's trade ...

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 ...

The Biden administration likes to distinguish between “traditional free trade agreements” and its “21st century trade framework.” Late last week, this match-up was brought into sharp relief. On ...

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 ...

Mr. Lighthizer, the author of “No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking On China, and Helping America’s Workers,” was the U.S. trade representative in the first Trump administration. The ...

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