It has become a cliché to observe that the world as we have known it has gone, never to return. Yet for all the anxiety about what comes next – geopolitical competition, a heightened risk of war, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover globalization and international economic policy. Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it ...

President Trump, who disabled the World Trade Organization during his first term, is going after international free trade rules in place since the 1940s. By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who covered ...

The strategy of upgrading pilot free trade zones outlined in the recommendations clarifies the demonstrative role of FTZs in ...

For decades, the liberal belief that open trade fosters peace has shaped US foreign policy. It worked while US security ...

Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Jitin Prasada, announced impending free trade agreements with the EU, New ...

As global manufacturers pivot away from China and set their sights on Vietnam, the country’s labor and employment landscape is rapidly changing. This surge in demand from Europe and the U.S. has not ...

Use of Tariffs to Resolve a Crisis. The Trump Administration has demonstrated a willingness to apply new tariffs to goods entering the U.S. as a viable tactic under its America First strategy to ...

The United States announced its most significant trade policy shift since NAFTA in 1994 when President Trump declared a national emergency on April 2, 2025, to address what he described as a “large ...

Calls by Prime Minister Gaston Browne for Caribbean leaders to seek help from Venezuela in a bid to combat rising fuel costs are receiving... (Barbados Today) - The United Kingdom will not turn its ...