In the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2025 is the year of the snake. The snake is said to represent wisdom and strategy. As it ...

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 ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by ...

As the United States retreats from free trade leadership, regional and plurilateral groupings are moving to sustain multilateralism. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) --Farmers for Free Trade, a nonprofit group that advocates for lower tariffs and expanded global market access, wrapped up its "Motorcade for Trade" tour Tuesday in Washington ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Asia-Pacific leaders on Friday that his country would help to defend global free trade at an annual economic regional forum snubbed by U.S.

15 May 2025 — The global economy is at a precarious juncture, marked by heightened trade tensions and elevated policy uncertainty, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -International finance chiefs are returning home with a measure of relief over the surprising resilience of the global economy to the cascade of policy shocks through the first ...

ONE OF THE year’s surprises has been how few countries chose to retaliate against Donald Trump’s tariffs with levies of their own. Better, most surmised, to placate the president than risk a costly ...

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Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide The global trading system that promoted ...

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 ...