Trade

March 6, 2018 Ryan Criticizes Tariff Plan as Trump Issues Nafta Threat By ANA SWANSON MARCH 5, 2018 WASHINGTON — Paul D. Ryan, the Republican House speaker, criticized...

By Charles Woolfson Linköping University, Sweden 21 February 2018 The European Commission has from the outset adopted a determined posture of “no concessions” in the negotiations...

US politicians, with a ‘deep-rooted mistrust’, have failed to catch up with China’s understanding of cooperation, Xinhua commentary says By Frank Tang Beijing on Wednesday criticised...

Donald Trump’s threats against America’s trade partners are a sign that the global system of free trade is beginning to unravel. Germany can do...

By Charles Woolfson One of Britain’s most celebrated entrepreneurs and an avid supporter of Brexit in the business community, the inventor Sir James Dyson, has...

By James Cogan 10 November 2017 Yesterday, the overblown state honors paid by the Chinese regime to Donald Trump, and the latter’s reciprocation with...

Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the IMF, WTO and the World Bank have created a united front in defense of free trade....

G-20 Drops Anti-Protectionist Pledge as Price of U.S. Assent by Rainer Buergin, Jeff Black  and Josh Wingrove Finance chiefs of the world’s largest economies set...

This week (December 2-10) [1] the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is being negotiated in Jakarta, Indonesia. If signed, RCEP would grant corporations the exclusive right to bypass domestic legal systems and sue governments at international tribunals whenever they feel government regulation can limit their profits [2].

What kind of trade policy will the United States have under President Donald Trump? This is a hot issue, as Trump has made unorthodox pronouncements on trade issues during and after the election campaign. If he acts on even some of the positions he took, it will create a sea change in trade policy in the US and possibly the world.