October 21, 2024
The largest economies in the world are leading a revival of industrial policies in support of a broad range of goals beyond manufacturing competitiveness.
July 8, 2024
Trade policy could help reduce global carbon emissions significantly. But simply adding carbon border taxes to the existing tariff system is not very effective.
June 25, 2024
Economic sanctions have become a tool of first response to address foreign policy and national security goals. How effective are they?
February 9, 2022
A look at how trade benefits society — consumers, companies, and workers — but creates winners and losers, too.
September 24, 2021
Countries benefit from increasing international trade and financial flows. But interconnectedness can make them vulnerable to economic shocks originating abroad.
June 9, 2021
The market for shipping services can influence trade flows, the products that countries sell, and how price shocks reverberate through trade.
February 6, 2020
The 2018 tariffs raised domestic steel prices, putting downstream U.S. manufacturing firms at a disadvantage relative to foreign competition.
January 28, 2020
There is room for some reasonable amendments to the WTO’s dispute settlement and to rules relating to developing countries. Net benefits are unclear.
January 15, 2020
U.S. agricultural exports to China fell from 2017 to 2018 and remained depressed in 2019. The government provided unprecedented levels of support to farmers.