With the benefit of hindsight today, the Washington Consensus was valuable in the sense that it was a consensus, it ...

China alleges that the tariffs are based on unfounded and false allegations, and are in excess of the U.S.’s bound rates in a ...

The "China Shock" is revisited, and it raises questions about why economists failed to see the costs of free trade.

IntroductionIndia is a contradiction in the World Trade Organization (WTO): both a norm-breaker and a dealmaker. When the WTO was established in 1995, India had already begun a series of economic ...

President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his second term defies many historical norms, say economists and historians.

The World Trade Organization (WTO ... Advantages and Disadvantages of the WTO The history of international trade has been a battle between protectionism and free trade. The WTO has fueled ...

Can we have a World Trade Organization without the US? The idea is not entirely unrealistic, at least for merchandise trade. Third, it is in services trade that the US is still dominant.

President Trump during his first term bridled at any institutions and accords — the World Trade Organization, climate treaties and trade partnerships with countries on the Pacific Rim — that ...

But the pause is only for a month, and a 10 percent tariff that Trump announced on Chinese imports, on top of existing ...