Globalisation is fundamentally political, not technological. This is the lesson from a new book tracing 1000 years of international trade history. Here the authors use lessons from the past to ...

-- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- By John Kemp LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - As hopes for reaching a binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the ...

When Donald Trump threatens to slap massive tariffs on China , economic textbooks want to self-destruct like the smoky opening scene in a Mission Impossible movie. After all, free trade drives down ...

With all the talk going on about the merits of free trade and the U.S.’s free trade agreements, it might be helpful to look at an example from the past. Debates over free trade vs. protectionism are ...

A long-delayed meeting of World Trade Organization (WTO) ministers scheduled for today was postponed yet again due to the omicron variant of COVID-19. However, the need for a trade policy reckoning ...

Laffer Associates Founder and Chairman Art Laffer explains why trade promotion authority and free trade deals are essential to economic growth. Photo credit: Associated Press. Pro-growth policies have ...

By: Jacques Otumfuo & Albert Derrick Fiatui (CIMAG)Global maritime trade is the invisible engine behind more than 80% of world trade by volume.In the wake of a prolonged pandemic disruption, the past ...

Jonah Keri is writing for Grantland -- eventually he’ll write everywhere; people from Quebec just get into everything if you let them -- and today has a good piece looking back at some major trade ...

Avocados in the U.S. market recently rose in price because there was a ban on importing them from Mexico. This ban, now lifted, was imposed due to a threat made against an American inspector. Given ...