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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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First the trade war, then the pandemic. Now Chinese manufacturers are turning inward

Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review | 06/03/2020

Ask Zhu Kaiyu about his factory, and he can rattle off a series of statistics meant to impress: 15,000 square meters, 800 employees, 300 machines, 5 million articles of clothing…

China
Chinese Policy
Manufacturing
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy
United States

South Africa must get ready for an inevitable loosening of trade ties with the US

Mills Soko | The Conversation | 06/02/2020

In six months’ time the world’s gaze ...

Africa
Trade Agreements
Trade Negotiations
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy
United Sates

U.S. Withdrawal from the World Health Organization and Decision to Revoke Preferential Treatment for Hong Kong — Reduced Cooperation as COVID-19 Pandemic Rages on

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 05/30/2020

Coronavirus
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

The United States No Longer Considers Hong Kong Autonomous from China, Setting the Stage for Rule Changes that Could Disrupt Trade and Economic Relations

Christopher R. Wall, Stephan E. Becker, Aaron R. Hutman, Benjamin J. Cote, Sahar J. Hafeez and Roya Motazedi | Global Trade and Sanctions Law | 05/29/2020

China
Chinese Policy
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy
United States

Dems Must Embrace ‘America First’ Trade Policy to Win in Fall

Evan Bayh | Real Clear Politics | 05/22/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting almost ...

Trade Agreements
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

High Stakes for the U.S-Kenya Trade Agreement

Judd Devermont | Center for Strategic and International Studies | 05/19/2020

When President Trump in February 2020 s...

Africa
U.S. Policy
US-Kenya

US-China phase one tracker: China’s purchases of US goods

Chad Brown | Peterson Institute for International Economics | 05/18/2020

On February 14, 2020, the Eco...

China
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

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