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Trump 2.0: A Disruptive Peripeteia for International Law

04/21/2026

Ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the President’s Authority Under IEEPA to Impose Tariffs

08/29/2025

How Donald Trump Should have Tackled the US Trade Deficit

08/19/2025

US Negotiators Face Tough Task to Secure Trade Deal with China

08/18/2025

Reflections on the Angels on the Head of Jamieson Greer’s Pin

08/12/2025

Taxation Without Representation: How Trump’s Tariff Policy Undermines Democracy And International Legal Norms

08/04/2025

Trump, Tariffs & Trade Wars

08/04/2025

A Progressive Industrial Policy for the Global South: A Latin American Perspective

07/28/2025

An Alliance For Open Trade: How To Counter Trump’s Tariffs

07/27/2025

Tariffs, Trade Tensions and Climate Policy: The New Frontier of Green Trade Measures

07/26/2025

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Reform at the WTO — Fundamental Divisions Continue on Key Issues for U.S.

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/18/2020

At the recent Informal Trade Negotiations Committee and Informal Heads of Delegation meeting on October 12 and the General Council meeting on October 13, WTO Members continued to line up…

Food Systems aren’t Meeting Global Needs. Consumers and Farmers Can Change it Together

Helena Leurent | Theo de Jager | World Economic Forum | 10/16/2020

Agriculture
Climate Change
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Export
Fair Trade
Food Security
Free Trade
Global Value Chains
Globalization
Trade Policy

Calculating the True Cost of Trump’s “Trade Wars”

Scott Lincicome | CATO Institute | 10/15/2020

Given the centrality of trade policy to President Trump’s t...

Agriculture
Trade Policy
Trade War
Trump
U.S. Policy

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

Lydia DePillis | ProPublica | 10/13/2020

On a spring day in 2017, Robert Light...

Trade Negotiations
Trade Policy
United States
USTR

Global Companies Are Caught Between New Taxes and a Trade War

Rochelle Toplensky | The Wall Street Journal | 10/13/2020

Taxes aren’t quite the certainty they onc...

TAX
Trade Policy
Trade War
U.S. Policy

U.S. Commences Two Investigations into Vietnam under Sec. 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as Amended — on Currency and on Use of Illegally Harvested Timber

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/12/2020

Currency
Currency Manipulation
Environment
Section 301
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Policy
Trade Remedies
USTR

US-UK Trade Deal is a Threat to Food and Farmers

Orla Delargy | Sharon Anglin Treat | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy | 10/09/2020

IATP teamed up with ...

Agriculture
Bilateral Trade
Brexit
Food Security
Free Trade
FTA
Globalization
Trade Agreements
Trade Negotiations
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy
United States

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