Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it sound as if we must choose between liberal trade policies and solving important policy problems at home. That’s a false choice.

Opinion: Free trade in semiconductors in other artificial intelligence components is crucial to keeping U.S. tech companies competitive, writes Paige Fredenburgh.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have unleashed an unprecedented burst of free trade agreements and negotiations towards them by partners seeking to offset potential lost ...

The global trade landscape is shifting, and not in the way free traders had hoped. For decades, the belief that economic openness could foster peace and stability reigned supreme. Trade, it was argued ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Globalization has produced radically different results for the United ...

As the Trump administration forges ahead with its “America First” tariff policies, advanced economies, China, and countries in the Global South are each responding in their own ways, while claiming to ...

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Free trade, in theory, is the ideal situation in which individuals and companies in different countries can buy and sell goods to and from each other without any interference from governments. Free ...

The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World War I, global trade grew rapidly despite the ever-higher tariff walls built by the rising protectionist ...