"Fostering intra-African integration and removing trade barriers will be critical to Africa's coming economic transformation. Two agreements, in particular, promise to lower production costs, create new value chains, boost domestic demand, _...Read More_

"An intense debate within the Biden administration about lowering tariffs imposed on China to fight inflation was acknowledged publicly during President Joseph R."

"It’s wrong to assume that negative views of China translate into support for a trade war."

"For companies depending on fast, small deliveries, the costs of new Brexit trade rules are mounting."

"Trade restrictions always inspire adaptations and include winners and losers, determined sometimes in unexpected ways."

"Foreign investment into China hit a record US$144.4 billion in 2020, while firms exiting China did not leave because of tariffs, US researchers say."

"Since sanctions have become the main weapons, we need to apply them with the same skill as the Pentagon uses military force."

"The path forward is still an open economy — what we need is more honesty about the tradeoffs involved."

>"A letter from influential industry organizations asked the White House to resume negotiations on tariffs and other measures that stalled during a bruising trade _...Read More_

"Australia's Prime Minister wants reform of the World Trade Organization to rein in China's 'economic coercion'. But it also needs to constructively engage with China on that reform."

"In the early summer of 2018, the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky’s largest newspaper, put out an emergency distress call to Mitch McConnell. It was about bourbon. The editorial laid out how tariffs on whiskey—imposed by the E.U. and _...Read More_

"To counter Beijing’s growing economic and military might, the United States must get its own house in order."

"The United States spent much of the 19th century as the most protected economy in the developed world, becoming a manufacturing juggernaut despite average tariff rates hovering between 20 percent and 50 percent. The supposedly catastrophic _...Read More_

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"The free-trade pact would help both sides avoid tariffs, but Britain would still face economic costs from being outside the European Union."