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Ten CFR experts break down what the president's trade agenda has accomplished since he placed a ninety-day pause on his ...
This article appears in “ The Trade Wars,” FP’s collection of essential articles on tariffs—from their history to today’s trade turbulence. Explore the full collection.
Instead of viewing tariffs as part of a broader trade policy, President Trump sees them as a valuable weapon he can wield on ...
Tax Notes contributing editors Robert Goulder and Joseph J. Thorndike explore the history of tariffs in the United States, all in five minutes.
Below, you’ll find articles that provide insight into many of your tariff-related questions, as well as the history and future of Trump’s favorite economic tool.
The trade war is broader in scope than the one during Trump's first administration and continues to intensify with each round of retaliatory tariffs.
Trump Buries Wilsonian Foreign Policy The old rules of inviolable state borders don’t apply in a world of trade wars and terrorist regimes.
The first six months of President Trump's term have brought major changes to U.S. foreign policy, from gutting foreign aid to softening the approach toward Russia.
To find a policy path in a jungle of opinions and interests, President Eisenhower last summer appointed a 17-member Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, headed by Inland Steel Co.'s Board ...
WOLF: You wrote an entire history of US trade policy, so this is clearly an overly simplistic question for you, but what is the general role tariffs have played in the course of US history?
Without exaggeration or fear of contradiction it can be said that recent American foreign policy has been a disaster for the American worker.
Don't sleep on the shale boom as a force behind Trump 2.0's "disruptive" foreign and trade policies, a new essay argues.