This is more than a shift in foreign policy; it’s a divorce so comprehensive that it makes Brexit look modest by comparison.

Veronique de Rugy compares the economic fallout of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs and Trump-era trade barriers, arguing both ...

History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes — the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the Trump-era tariffs of today — offer a striking example.

Both could turn out to be costly, backward-looking mistakes that undermine the economies they are meant to protect.

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that Trump’s tariffs would slow growth, not only for the U.S. but globally. The ...

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The U.S. is probably not in a recession, but it’s looking inevitable unless there’s a dramatic shift from the White House on ...

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This further aggravated the Great Depression ... interfering in global trade. Now more than ever before, international ...

Since the end of the Second World War, global trade has consistently drawn sustenance from the multilaterally agreed set of ...

But across Trump’s political career, his case for tariffs has remained consistent, relying on a number of false and misleading claims to describe a global trade system ... that reducing tariffs caused ...