Countries with democratic governments and mostly free economies should come together and create a new trade regime, based on ...

In particular, Trump espouses mercantilism, a doctrine popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. Adam Smith’s famous inquiry in ...

Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Donald Trump's threats to level trade tariffs against particular ...

Three decades since the launch of the North American Free Trade Agreement ... among members of the Editorial Board, based in the Opinions section and separate from the newsroom.

Free trade is in trouble. That’s hardly startling news when the ... the more outlandish he will become as he tries to get your attention. Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and a professor ...

Even if a longer-term trade impasse is avoided, even a brief trade war and continued threats of tariffs can prolong the harm.

Beyond a few purveyors of handbags and slimming drugs, few of its big companies compete successfully with rivals from America and China, the world’s two biggest economies. Negotiating a trade ...

United States President Donald Trump's threats to raise tariffs on imports from Canada, China and Mexico have the world ...

The looming tariffs against Canadian and Mexican exports to the United States are not just another round of trade skirmishes. They may well signify the beginning of the end for Bretton Woods-era ...

Donald Trump has successfully blurred the lines between Republicans and Democrats by stealing their playbooks on issues such ...