Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it sound as if we must choose between liberal trade policies and solving important policy problems at home. That’s a false choice.

The US and the European Union have been on a trade agreement tear, competing to define the future global trading system. The ...

Free trade, in theory, is the ideal situation in which individuals and companies in different countries can buy and sell goods to and from each other without any interference from governments. Free ...

As the Trump administration forges ahead with its “America First” tariff policies, advanced economies, China, and countries in the Global South are each responding in their own ways, while claiming to ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have unleashed an unprecedented burst of free trade agreements and negotiations towards them by partners seeking to offset potential lost ...

The British government estimates the free trade agreement to unlock £5.2 billion a year in exports to Switzerland over the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ukraine's top trade official said President Volodymyr Zelensky has ...

To many today, the idea that free trade brings peace looks like bygone naïveté at best and neoliberal apologism at worst. Contrary to the aspirations of the late twentieth-century free trade moment, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Globalization has produced radically different results for the United ...

About the author: Brian P. Klein is the founder of RidgePoint Global, a strategic advisory firm, and a former U.S. diplomat. The U.S. is accelerating its pull back from global trade. That’s the ...