Over the course of a year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has become the most disruptive force in global trade since the 1930s. But the destruction of the post–Cold War trade order—a ...

President Donald Trump’s foreign trade policy has been marked by contradiction from the beginning of his second term. He says he’s using tariffs to help close the U.S. budget deficit while increasing ...

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In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by the idea that “unhampered trade dovetailed with peace.” ...

The “America first” foreign policy of U.S. President Donald Trump has unsettled the world America made. Allies are questioning the United States’ reliability as a strategic partner and are concerned ...

Banks may be indirectly exposed to trade policy through lending and through the broader effects of trade on the economy. Analysis finds that exposure to recent trade shocks was concentrated in large ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. Instead of 193 countries in the world (the number of UN member nations), ...