Recently more and more people from the MAGA movement, especially in the last year, are calling free trade a fake ...

If we won’t defend these historic principles, who will? Support for free trade is more than just a policy to be chatted about in bleak press conferences. It is a moral and philosophical stance ...

Often located near ports or airports, foreign-trade zones are areas designated by the Commerce Department as being outside of ...

As Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new Prime Minister on March 14, he was well aware of a growing trade war. He now faces an enormous economic and diplomatic challenge as he confronts the ...

The United States’ recent tariff offensive has left developing countries confronting a thorny dilemma. As Washington abandons ...

The thermostatic Trump effect is back in a big way as Americans move against Trumpism on several fronts. For the second time in a matter of days, President Donald Trump’s bull-in-a-china-shop routine ...

He says Trump is “illustrating the harm of trade barriers.” and “giving Americans a[n]…effective lesson in the virtues of free trade.” Of course, that is not at all what Trump is doing ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

More broadly, Mr. Abbott’s tweet, and the escalating talk of a trade war, raises the question: How did things get to this breaking point? The prime years politically for Canada-U.S. free trade ...

Before agricultural trade boomed under the North American Free Trade Agreement, US consumers had to pay significantly more for a tomato in December or January than in August or September.