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Trump 2.0: A Disruptive Peripeteia for International Law

04/21/2026

Ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the President’s Authority Under IEEPA to Impose Tariffs

08/29/2025

How Donald Trump Should have Tackled the US Trade Deficit

08/19/2025

US Negotiators Face Tough Task to Secure Trade Deal with China

08/18/2025

Reflections on the Angels on the Head of Jamieson Greer’s Pin

08/12/2025

Taxation Without Representation: How Trump’s Tariff Policy Undermines Democracy And International Legal Norms

08/04/2025

Trump, Tariffs & Trade Wars

08/04/2025

A Progressive Industrial Policy for the Global South: A Latin American Perspective

07/28/2025

An Alliance For Open Trade: How To Counter Trump’s Tariffs

07/27/2025

Tariffs, Trade Tensions and Climate Policy: The New Frontier of Green Trade Measures

07/26/2025

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What President Biden Can Learn From President Reagan

Bryan Riley | Inside Sources | 02/08/2021

One of the decisions facing the Biden administration is whether to perpetuate unprecedented levels of tariffs imposed by President Trump. These import taxes, the bulk of which apply to goods…

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U.S.-China Phase 1 Trade Agreement — Data through December 2020; China has increased purchases of agricultural and energy products above 2017 levels but did not reach first year agreed purchases in 2020 and won’t reach the agreed level even if measured from March 2020-February 2021

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/06/2021

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Trump’s Trade Failure Can Be Biden’s Win On China And WTO

Christine McDaniel | Forbes | 02/01/2021

By former President Trump’s own metric, his trade war with ...

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How Trump’s Tariffs Really Affected the U.S. Job Market

Michael Pettis | Carnegie Endowment | 01/28/2021

A recent study on U.S.-China trade concludes that Trum...

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Forced labor and child labor — a continued major distortion in international trade for some products

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 01/24/2021

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Revitalizing the WTO under a Biden administration

Clete Willems | Atlantic Council | 01/12/2021

Longstanding bipartisan US concerns about the WTO will persist and...

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First Steps for the Biden Administration on the Global Trade Regime

Wendy Cutler | East Asia Forum | 12/07/2020

As the incoming Biden administration considers the...

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