Trade accounts for an increasing portion of the U.S. economy, and the Obama administration has embraced a ramped up export strategy. But debate persists over the merits of a vigorous free trade agenda ...

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 ...

Instead of viewing tariffs as part of a broader trade policy, President Trump sees them as a valuable weapon he can wield on the world stage. By Maggie Haberman President Trump’s allies often describe ...

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 ...

BOSTON — The Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) will hold its second debate this year on Nov. 5, taking on a timely question: Will higher tariffs create a better future for the United ...

ST. PAUL — Republicans put a strong emphasis on continuing an aggressive free trade policy in their 2008 party platform adopted Monday, including forging new pacts and protecting intellectual property ...

Former Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) argued globalized free trade creates broad benefits but harms some U.S. workers amid President Donald Trump’s increasing tariff policy during an event at Georgetown ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism MARC-WILLIAM PALEN is an economic historian at the University of Exeter and the author of Pax ...