Populists cherry pick the data to support their claim that tariffs will bring manufacturing back.

An era of free trade ends, as President Donald Trump slaps tariffs on imported goods. What does the varied history of trade ...

The United States is about to plunge into recession, pulling much of the world down with it. The tariffs announced by ...

Protectionism is alive and well — especially in the United States, where tariffs have become the cause célèbre of economic ...

Trump’s tariff war is chaotic, but there is no way out of neoliberal globalization without some form of protectionism.

The commentary class is protesting. The New York Post is clamoring for Trump to turn off the tariffs. The Wall Street Journal ...

A weak compromise will only allow Donald Trump and the US to sabotage the international order and rules even more wantonly, ...

The Chinese Communist Party, apostle of free trade. In a strange new world ... that “World War Two was caused because of empires and protectionism”. He recalled that in the 1940s an oil ...

Classical conservatives, such as my think tank and the vast majority of pro-free trade Republicans ... figureheads want permanent protectionism to eliminate the trade deficit.

Even famed economist Adam Smith, who laid out the case for free trade, carved out an exception for defense. But the notion ...

President Trump's reciprocal tariffs mark opening salvos in the fight to level the playing field for American workers.

Britain has probably been the only country in history to regard import tariffs as a moral issue. For Victorians, “free trade” ...