The rules-based international trade system is in danger, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday, amid spiralling debt, heavy tariffs and financial insecurity for emerging nations. Guterres said ...

Discover the evolution of international trade agreements from mercantilism to modern global trade, highlighting trends in multilateral and regional arrangements.

Just weeks into his second term as president, Donald J. Trump resumed his assault on the global trading system, and in doing so, upended U.S. trade policy. Calling on emergency powers used in ...

The rules-based international trade system is in danger, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday, amid spiralling debt, heavy tariffs and financial insecurity for emerging nations. Guterres said ...

The United States must play a more active role in reshaping the international economic order. Completely abandoning the international trading system would be a disaster for the American people and our ...

The trade war isn’t coming. It’s already here. Alarming as the daily news may be, this is not the first time nations have clashed over trade. In the 20th and 21st centuries, there have been many ...

If re-elected, Donald Trump has plans to impose a 10 per cent tariff on all US imports and a 60 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, potentially triggering a global contagion of retaliatory measures.

The sweeping tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 2, along with the subsequent postponements and retaliations, have unleashed an enormous amount of global uncertainty. Much of the ...

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 ...