The evidence points to a failing strategy. Protectionism has not delivered the promised benefits. Decoupling has hurt ...

US Delegation, including US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (2nd R) and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R) talks with the Chinese Delegation including Vice Premier Liu He (2nd L) during ...

In his latest article "The Social Snobbery of Free Trade" Ian Fletcher goes on yet another of his trademark anti-trade, protectionist tirades, claiming now that free trade advocates are snobs who look ...

Our nation faces rising unemployment, staggering debts, shrinking trade, and no sense of when (and if) a real recovery — one that reaches Main Street and working families — will take hold. As the ...

President Trump is reimaging U.S. foreign and international economic policies, and Americans won’t be richer. After World War II, the United States fostered security alliances — NATO and regional ...

Another day, another market-shaking headline out of the US. This morning, we woke to news that US President Donald Trump had imposed the threatened tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. And that, as a ...

WASHINGTON -- Saturday, Valentine's Day, sweets will be showered on sweethearts -- a bonanza for candy makers. But the very next day all 242 Fannie May and Fanny Farmer chocolate candy stores will be ...

The “Candle Makers’ Petition” is a satire of protectionist tariffs, written by French economist Frèdèric Bastiat. In many ways, it expanded on the free market argument against mercantilism set forth ...