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Despite the Courts’ IEEPA Rulings, the Tariff Costs Are Still Worse Than You Think

Jake Colvin | Council on Foreign Relations | 05/29/2025

Editor’s note: We were preparing to highlight NFTC President Jake Colvin’s recent op-ed for the Council on Foreign Relations, The Tariff Costs Are Worse Than You Think, when two federal…

Trade Under Blockade

Iain Murray, Kent Lassman & Ryan Young | Competitive Enterprise Institute | 05/27/2025

Introduction President Donald Trump threw the world tr...

Can Trump’s Reciprocal Trade Negotiations Make America Great Again?

Warren Maruyama, Meghan Anand & William Alan Reinsch | CSIS | 04/30/2025

On April 9, 2025, i...

What President Trump’s “Reciprocal” Tariffs Mean for International (Trade) Law

Nicolas Lamp | EJIL:Talk! | 04/30/2025

When US President Donald Trump announc...

The Tariff Tug-of-War: A Look at Protectionism and Free Trade Over Time

Lucas Benjamin | The Science Survey | 04/29/2025

The longstanding battle between protecti...

The Pundit’s Dilemma

Noah Smith | Noahpinion | 04/22/2025

Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That’s a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow. “The...

The Economic Impact of Trump’s Tariffs on Europe: An Initial Assessment

Madalena Barata da Rocha, Nicolas Boivin & Niclas Poitiers | Bruegel | 04/17/2025

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