The ASEAN bloc of Southeast Asian nations and China on Tuesday signed an upgrade to their free trade agreement, which ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover globalization and international economic policy. Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it ...

This week, President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that "tariff" is "the most beautiful word in the dictionary" and claimed that tariffs would "make our country rich." All of that is standard ...

This week, a Republican senator tried to get his colleagues to stand up for free trade—and failed. Just two fellow Republicans joined Sen. Rand Paul’s resolution to repeal the worldwide tariffs ...