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China’s top leaders are signaling they are on alert for a potential flareup of tensions in global commerce as they draw up economic plans for next year, after amassing a record trade surplus despite ...

On April 2, a day he dubbed “Liberation Day,” President Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced a sweeping new program of tariffs intended to rebalance U.S. trade. Trump’s ...

Nigel Driffield receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is an inactive member of the Labour Party and an advisor to the mayor of the West Midlands Those of us who study ...

Behind Trump’s new tariffs is a goal that is as ambitious as it is unrealistic: eliminating the bilateral trade deficit with every U.S. trading partner. By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson has written about ...

As economic security policies gain ground across major APEC economies, the forum has remained largely silent on the issue. While framed as national security, these policies often undermine the liberal ...

Note: This article was updated on June 11 to reflect the outcomes of negotiations in London on June 10. Over the last two days, senior U.S. and Chinese officials engaged in trade negotiations in ...

The first 12 months of President Donald Trump’s second term will go into the history books as the year US tariffs threatened but didn’t wreck the global economy, tested diplomatic ties with allies and ...