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A Tale of Tariffs and the Making of the Modern Offshore Market

David Chan Smith | Promarket | 06/11/2025

David Chan Smith argues that tariff regimes during the eighteenth century encouraged modern history’s first offshore markets to reroute goods through jurisdictions that faced lower tariff rates. This historical “entrepôt…

Only Trump’s Tariffs Can Fix a Rigged Global Trading System

Peter Navarro | Financial Review | 04/08/2025

The international trade system is broken – and Donald ...

Farmers Look for Silver Linings As Reciprocal Tariffs Go Into Effect

Rhonda Brooks | AgWeb | 04/02/2025

On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump announced a series...

Trump Should Clarify His Trade Agenda and Align It With a Broader Mandate

John K. Veroneau | Council on Foreign Relations | 02/11/2025

President Donald Trump sho...

Toward a Cleaner, Smarter USMCA

C.J. Mahoney & Peter Harrell | Carnegie Endowment | 12/17/2024

By July 1, 2026, the parties to the United States–Mexico–Canada Agr...

How Maritime Trade has Become a Tool of Diplomacy and Deterrence

Commander Rahul Verma (Retd) | Firstpost | 12/04/2024

The intricate ties between maritime trade, ...

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