COMMENTARY: Free trade, not protectionism, is the path to prosperity Tariffs are a failed policy; history has shown they do more harm than good. A container ship heads toward the San Francisco ...

And protectionism is a utopian dream. How much longer do protectionists get to gloat about free-traders being wrong until they have to present the results of their alternative approach? Now ...

South Korea's industry ministry said on Wednesday that the country and China have kicked off a fresh round of follow-up ...

What created the free-trade order we have enjoyed since 1945 was the catastrophic experience of interwar protectionism. The 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act imposed levies on some 20,000 imports.

On Feb. 19, 1904, a young English politician delivered a speech at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. For more than 90 minutes, he spoke with precision, wit, and humor, drawing guffaws as he ...

Trade globalization goes down as regional economic blocs gain importance amid US protectionism in trade, according to ...

Free trade advocates can say things might have been even better for these states, but there is little reason to conclude that protectionism held back Bismarck’s Germany or Ulysses Grant’s ...

SA’s retreat from free trade is worsening stagnation and unemployment.New tariffs, barriers, and controls are harming growth ...

In a speech today (Tuesday 24th June) at the Associated British Ports reception, and in the week the government plans to ...

The aggressive protectionism of Trump 2.0 will make the country poorer, more corrupt, and globally isolated, warns trade ...

Fewer producers think free trade would do them good as they remain upbeat about the prospects of US agriculture exports and ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet his pledge to eliminate the country’s internal trade barriers by July 1. But economists ...