The global trade landscape is shifting, and not in the way free traders had hoped. For decades, the belief that economic openness could foster peace and stability reigned supreme. Trade, it was argued ...

Africa has few initiatives seeking to boost economic integration that benefit all countries on the continent. This is precisely what the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) initiative aims to ...

Amid the headlines and noise of the latest tariffs from Washington and the growing fears about the state of global trade, a quiet movement to support free and open commerce is taking place in world ...

THE launch of island-wide special customs operations at Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) – the world’s largest free trade port by ...

An interim agreement aimed at reducing tariffs between the EU and the South American bloc will remain in effect until the ...

President Donald Trump’s protectionist stance is undoing decades of free trade policies. Since taking office for his second term, Trump has imposed a series of tariffs on goods and countries, which ...

Free trade has been so beneficial to so many countries that the world may find a way to live without its biggest player. By Mark Landler Reporting from London President Trump’s self-proclaimed ...

But many Americans aren't listening. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University, conducted in late January, found that 42% of Americans believe tariffs will help the U.S. economy. The United States' ...

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 ...

Africa has promising areas of resilience, but also of opportunity in the services sector, not only to participate in ...

Mr. Lighthizer, the author of “No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking On China, and Helping America’s Workers,” was the U.S. trade representative in the first Trump administration. The ...