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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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U.S.-China Phase 1 Trade Agreement — Data through December 2020; China has increased purchases of agricultural and energy products above 2017 levels but did not reach first year agreed purchases in 2020 and won’t reach the agreed level even if measured from March 2020-February 2021

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/06/2021

U.S. December export data were released earlier this week. While there are some improvements in some categories of merchandise exports in December (particularly in major agricultural categories, liquefied natural gas…

Biden
Bilateral Trade
China
China-US Agreement
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade

WTO Director-General selection process — withdrawal of Korea’s Trade Minister Yoo important step to consensus behind Nigeria’s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/05/2021

Director General
Korea
Next WTO-Director-General
Nigeria
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
World Trade Organization

Biden Administration throws support behind Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for next Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/05/2021

Biden
Director General
Nigeria
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
USTR
Women
World Trade Organization

COVID-19 agricultural fall out — higher prices for many consumers and greater food insecurity

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/03/2021

Agriculture
COVID-19
Food Security
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade

Trade and Sustainable Development Obligations in the EU-UK TCA and their practical implications

Ann-Evelyn Luyten | European Views | 02/03/2021

INTRODUCTION The E...

Brexit
EU
Sustainable Trade
United Kingdom

The pandemic is not under control anywhere unless it is controlled everywhere

Chad P. Bown, Monica de Bolle, and Maurice Obstfeld | Peterson Institute for International Economics | 02/02/2021

Brazil
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Europe
Trade Policy
United States

Early trade action by Biden Administration — reinstating aluminum duties on imports from the United Arab Emirates

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/02/2021

Biden
Global Markets
Middle East
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade

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