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Quotas Can Work Better Than Tariffs to Reshore Production

Jeff Ferry | Coalition for a Prosperous America | 10/24/2024

Tariffs are becoming widely accepted by U.S. politicians and policymakers as an important tool for maintaining and rebuilding our industrial economy. But quotas, a related tool, can sometimes work better…

Feminism’s Forgotten Free-Trade Past

Marc-William Palen | University of Exeter's Centre for Imperial and Global History | 10/23/2024

A fragmenting world of trad...

Underestimating Trump on Tariffs

Alan Wm. Wolff | The Peterson Institute for International Economics | 10/21/2024

Economists most often try to work with data (fa...

“It’s You, Not Me”: China’s Subsidies and Global Trade Tensions

Nikki Trewin, Daiki Sato & Adrian Lu | Australian Institute of International Affairs | 10/21/2024

Trump Says He Wants Global Tariffs, but Could He Actually Do It?

Scott Lincicome | Cato Institute | 10/16/2024

Donald Trump’s constant discussion of tariffs has g...

A Vision for the WTO’s Global Digital Trade Rules

Alisa DiCaprio | Mercatus Center | 10/09/2024

At the 13th Ministerial Conference in 2024, World Trade Organiza...

Closing the Gap Between Mars and Venus on Trade

L. Daniel Mullaney | Atlantic Council | 10/07/2024

The bottom line In early 2025, a new US administration and Euro...

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