General consensus doesn’t get much more general than U.S. and European economists’ nearly universal support for unrestricted trade and opposition to most or all forms of economic protectionism. More ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher warned on Monday against “Buy America” provisions in a proposed fiscal stimulus law and said it could lead to devastating trade ...

State intervention has made a comeback. States have, in one way or another, always intervened in markets to develop specific industries and push innovation. But there has been a renaissance since the ...

President Trump is reimaging U.S. foreign and international economic policies, and Americans won’t be richer. After World War II, the United States fostered security alliances — NATO and regional ...

TOPSHOT - An employee operates on a forging with protective gear at the Framatome Creusot forge, in Le Creusot, central France on March 3, 2023. - As she visited the Framtome site, the French Minister ...

Adam S. Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the United States has become less open to trade in recent decades and why ...

There is no evidence that trade partners weaponize labor provisions in trade agreements, according to new research co-authored by Desirée LeClercq, the Proskauer Employment and Labor Law Assistant ...

The impact of protectionism–both outright and “murky”–on world trade will be highly dependent on the future course of the economic crisis. If the “green shoots” of an economic recovery blossom and ...

BEIJING – China on Monday accused the U.S. of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying with tariffs, while calling on representatives of American companies, including Tesla, to “take ...

Deborah Elms, executive director at consultancy Asian Trade Centre, said governments around the world will turn increasingly protectionist in the near term as they try to limit the economic damage ...