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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…

Notes from History for Surviving the Trade War

Francine McKenzie | War on the Rocks | 06/05/2025

The trade war isn’t coming. It’s already here. Alarming as the da...

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 wer...

Trade Under Blockade

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

Introduction President Donald Trump threw the world tr...

A Reverse Perspective on Trade and Tariffs

Elisabeth Dellinger | Fisher Investments | 05/15/2025

Trade surplus nations aren’t happier than trade deficit nations. ...

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...

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