Are We Witnessing the End of Global Trade?

We asked a group of experts to envision the future of supply chains and how changes to them will impact national economies.

Despite US trade war, OECD expects global economy will grow 3.2% this year

The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for ...
The American Prospect

The Trade Policy We Need

A significant cost from two months of incoherent Trump tariff policy could be the broad discrediting of an economic tool that actually can be extremely valuable. The president-who-cried-tariff ...
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The U.S. trade deficit: It’s time to dump do-it-yourself economics and go back to basics

Since President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, it seems that many people—particularly the chattering classes—have suddenly become experts in international trade. Mr. Trump’s tariffs have spawned a ...
Center for American Progress

Why Is Trump Pursuing a 19th Century Trade and Economic Agenda in the 21st Century?

What is needed is an economic strategy designed around the realities of the modern world. A ship makes its way down the St. Clair River under the Blue Water Bridge border crossing between Sarnia, ...
Cfr.org

Trade Protection Without Trade Promotion: Why Tightening Trade Rules Alone Would Not Strengthen U.S. Economic Security

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. During the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, U.S. policy to promote economic security has embraced defensive measures, such ...
Fox Business

US economic growth forecast cut sharply due to higher tariffs

The outlook for economic growth in the U.S. was slashed due to higher tariffs in a new report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday. The OECD's ...
NPR

A look at the economics of President Trump's trade war

President Trump's trade war is sending shockwaves around the world and rattling investors here at home. Stocks briefly rallied yesterday based on a rumor Trump might pause some of the new tariffs ...
Yahoo

Economics professor cited by Trump’s tariff policy makers explains how they got it all wrong

President Trump’s economic advisors cited a 2021 research paper on tariffs and U.S. trade policy in their methodology for their tariff formula, but University of Chicago economics professor ...
csis.org

The Uncertainty Tax: How Policy Volatility Will Harm the Economy

One week after “Liberation Day”—one of the largest tariff announcements in U.S. history—the Trump administration has reversed course again. All Liberation Day tariffs are now on a 90-day pause, except ...
The Hill

Trump is getting trade history and economics all wrong

Listening to President Trump enumerate America’s trade grievances this week in the Rose Garden, Democrats must have been aghast — for all the wrong reasons. He was stealing all their lines and their ...