This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...

The Trump administration's trade policy faces a critical test this week as a federal court weighs the legality of its sweeping tariffs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, ...

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In 2005, the economist Pietra Rivoli followed the production of a T-shirt from a cotton farm to a Walgreens to understand global trade. Today, she sees a new system arising. “Tariffs can be evaluated ...

(Reuters) -United Parcel Service posted quarterly profit marginally below estimates on Tuesday and again declined to issue annual revenue and margin forecasts, deepening concerns that changing U.S.

The White House announced a new trade policy and tariff plan Thursday night, just hours before the Aug. 1 trade deadline. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing new tariffs on ...

15 May 2025 — The global economy is at a precarious juncture, marked by heightened trade tensions and elevated policy uncertainty, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of ...

Stephen Miran, President Trump’s newly confirmed pick to the Federal Reserve board, said on Friday that uncertainty around U.S. trade policies was partly responsible for slow economic growth this year ...

President Donald Trump just enacted a new wave of tariffs on dozens of America’s trading partners, marking a substantial escalation in ongoing trade tensions that could constitute the biggest change ...

President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday that the country would be "completely destroyed" without the "trillions of dollars" of tariff revenue entering the U.S. economy. The ...

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