Trade Liberalization News Today

Opening markets leads to prosperity because open markets allow forcompetition, which is the only method by which the daily activityof millions of people can be coordinated without coercion.

In a bold move designed to boost economic growth, Ethiopia took a major shift in its trade policy.

Slovakia is poised to reject further trade liberalization with Ukraine proposed by the European Commission, unless it includes significant protections for Slovak farmers, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Feb. 21.

The United Kingdom's entry into the CPTPP would support Japan’s strategic autonomy and promote the rules-based international order.

Public approval can be won with sound-bytes while economists struggle to explain complex adverse effects that go unseen

Trade hawks are sounding wistful for the period of intense corporate trade liberalization from which both the Biden and Trump administrations have increasingly been moving away. It was one around which a big business consensus had formed over the last several decades and the move toward a less free trade focused chapter has alarmed some…

Democrats are sounding increasingly fed up with free trade agreements and some of the basic tenets of globalization that have defined the last several decades of U.S. trade policy, echoing some of the “America First” sentiments that put former President Trump at odds with the economic orthodoxies of his party and a longstanding policy consensus…

India should review tariffs and adopt a strategy aimed at an economy that’s globally competitive

The Import and Export Sectors of Sri Lanka, which comprise the critical and crucial economic segments of Sri Lanka and which contribute to the country’s overall commercial activities, have been seriously affected by the recent action of the Minister of Ports and Shipping by introducing and implementing the gazette No.2321/62. The new gazette annulling the...

MIT political scientist In Song Kim shines a bright light on the dark art of political lobbying. You may not know this, but the U.S. imposes a 12.5 percent import tariff on imported flashlights. However, for a product category the federal government describes as “portable electric lamps designed