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Why Does Everyone Suddenly Care About Supply Chains?

Chad P. Bown and Douglas A. Irwin | The New York Times | 10/14/2021

Globalization may have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but to its critics, it has long been a dirty word. They associate it with enhancing corporate power,…

The World Needs a COVID-19 Vaccine Investment and Trade Agreement

Chad P. Bown & Thomas J. Bollyky | Peterson Institute for International Economics | 10/13/2021

World’s Growth Cools and the Rich-Poor Divide Widens

Jude Althagafi | 10/12/2021

As the world economy struggles to find its footing, the resurgence of the coron...

A Hobbled Recovery Along Entrenched Fault Lines

Gita Gopinath | International Monetary Fund | 10/12/2021

The global recovery continues but momentum has weakened, ...

We Have a China Trade Policy—or Do We?

William Reinsch | Center for Strategic & International Studies | 10/12/2021

CSIS was privileged last week to host U.S. Tr...

Protectionism and the Development of the U.S. Maritime Industry

Colin Grabow | Cato Institute | 10/11/2021

The United States is one of the world’s most aggressive...

The Truth About Tariffs

Andrew Chatzky and Anshu Siripurapu | Council on Foreign Relations | 10/08/2021

Introduction Tariffs have long been used to prop up homegr...

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