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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday (12 January) signalled that negotiations between India and the European Union on a ...

EU deal with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay will create a massive free-trade area, showing that broad multilateral ...

Many analysts have interpreted Trump’s protectionist stance, and the United States’ imposition of tariffs, as economically irrational. If the liberal motto was once that “under free trade everybody ...

Trade protectionism has become a new normal that economists say Indonesia will have to navigate carefully this year through ...

Openness and connection are central to pro-growth Up Wing economics (as outlined in this newsletter and my book The Conservative Futurist). This means using public policy to help (or at least not ...

Free trade is in trouble. That’s hardly startling news when the U.S. has an avowed protectionist in the White House, but the problem runs deeper than it may at first appear. Start with the distinction ...

Free trade is in trouble. That’s hardly startling news when the U.S. has an avowed protectionist in the White House, but the problem runs deeper than it may at first appear. Start with the distinction ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday warned of the risks to global trade from rising protectionism. During a visit to the Hannover Messe, a world-leading trade fair in the northern German city, ...

European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: Getty Images Increased protectionism of U.S. trade policy would be extremely harmful to both the United States and to ...