Often overlooked by trendspotters chasing the big business angle of the moment, special economic zones (SEZs) have long been cornerstones of international trade. Also known as free trade zones (FTZs) ...

But many Americans aren't listening. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University, conducted in late January, found that 42% of Americans believe tariffs will help the U.S. economy. The United States' ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism MARC-WILLIAM PALEN is an economic historian at the University of Exeter and the author of Pax ...

The philosopher John Stuart Mill observed in 1840 that “every Englishman of the present day is by implication either a ...

The month of December in Mongolia has been filled with controversy around the interim free trade deal the country intends to sign with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), consisting of Russia, Belarus, ...

Reciprocity is the new free trade and that's the subject of the riff. At the Economic Club of Chicago yesterday, Bloomberg moderator John Micklethwait got his clock cleaned by Donald Trump. Not ...

“I think free trade has been dead and probably been dead for a while and isn't looking good for any time in the near future,” said Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International ...

The Plain Dealer tells about the Republican presidential candidates but still leaves out the issue of free trade economics. Rubio, Cruz, Walker, Kasich, Christie and the other "establishment ...

In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by the idea that “unhampered trade dovetailed with peace.” ...

After decades of shouting into the void that free trade is good, those of us in the "eliminate tariffs, embrace comparative advantage, and let me buy my haggis-flavored chips online without an import ...