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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

Which Country Should Design U.S. Industrial Policy?

07/16/2025

Blogs

Contributors provide unique perspectives on critical trade issues. Author’s views are their own, and do not reflect the views of WITA, its Board or its staff.

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China’s Trade Restrictive Actions Against Australia — What They Say About China’s Compliance with Notification Requirements and the Importance of Market-Economy Conditions in Global Trade

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/23/2020

One of the challenges companies and trading partners of China have faced in having the global rules of trade actually honored by China has been the informal actions of China’s…

China
Chinese Policy
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Policy
WTO
WTO Members

COVID-19 New Cases Over Last 14 Days Pass 5,000,000 For First Time on October 22

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/22/2020

According to data com...

Argentina
Belgium
Brazil
China
Columbia
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Czechia
EU
France
India
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
Spain
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
United Kingdom
United States

Reform at the WTO — Fundamental Divisions Continue on Key Issues for U.S.

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/18/2020

At the recent Informal Tra...

Apellate Body
Brazil
China
EU
Japan
Next WTO-Director-General
Tariffs
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Policy
United States
World Trade Organization
WTO
WTO Members
WTO Reform

Calculating the True Cost of Trump’s “Trade Wars”

Scott Lincicome | CATO Institute | 10/14/2020

Given the centrality of trade policy to President Trump’s ...

China
China-US Agreement
Trade War
Trump
U.S. Policy
United Sates

U.S.-China Phase 1 Trade Agreement — First Six Months Data on U.S. Exports (March-August 2020) Covered by the Purchase Commitments Show China Needing to Triple Purchases in Next Six Months to Meet First Year Commitments

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/11/2020

Agriculture
China
Phase One
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
United States

What Should Europe Expect from American Trade Policy after the Election?

Uri Dadush | Guntram B. Wolff | Bruegel | 10/08/2020

The European Union-United States tra...

2020 Election
Bilateral Trade
China
EU
Europe
European Union
Free Trade
Global Markets
Globalization
International Trade
Public Policy
Trade Policy
Trade Tensions with EU
Transatlantic Cooperation
U.S-EU Relations
U.S. Policy
United States

Top China Critic Becomes Its Defender

Ana Swanson | The New York Times | 10/06/2020

WASHINGTON — For decades, Robert E. Lighthizer, the United States trade repres...

Asia
China
China-US Agreement
Chinese Policy
Forced Labor
Hong Kong
Phase One
Taiwan
Technology
Trade Agreements
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy
United States

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