…its second-largest employer. More than a few people in Washington initially dismissed as absurd the idea that the trade organization could claim jurisdiction over something as basic as a country’s…

…restrict trade by President Reagan who like George W. Bush preached free trade but ignored his own CEA’s advice to also practice it. If I had the thankless task of…

This morning’s release of the trade data for March by the BEA showed a bit of a narrowing of the trade deficit on goods and services, from $60.6 bn in…

Even the Well-Off Don’t Like Trade These Days Via Dan Drezner, I see that Tuesday’s USA Today reported that The poll shows that among Americans making more than $100,000 a…

Trade and Income Growth: some data I’d like to finish up our discussion about international trade by presenting some data. There have been lots of comments in our discussion that…

…But Pro-Trade Forces are Mustering Against Bush From the NYTimes: Greenspan Warns Against ‘Creeping Protectionism’ in Trade In an apparent criticism of the Bush administration, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve’s…

…substantive FTAA deal, by moving toward bilateral trade negotiations – applied new tariffs to imports of textiles from China, at the risk of starting a trade war The anti-trade protectionist…

…a schizophrenic. Every step forward in Robert Zoelllick’s grand strategy for trade liberalization–getting fast-track authority, launching the Doha round of world trade talks–is matched by a blatantly protectionist measure contained…

The “China Problem” on the Economic Agenda Along similar (trade-related) lines… There’s is an interesting story in CBS MarketWatch about Snow’s trip to China, and the US-China economic relationship more…

…purported to also be in favor of free trade, so they were about the same on that one issue (though we quickly saw that free trade only gets lip service…