Economists Discuss the Pros and Cons of Free Trade The benefits of free trade have been a cornerstone of economic thought for decades. Recently, though, trade agreements have become the target of ...

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While it is perhaps more acceptable to oppose free trade for the benefit of workers, it is both ideologically inconsistent and ill-advised. To preserve the economic benefits of free trade ...

Trade organizations such as the WTO and preferential trade agreements allow governments to commit to a set of rules. In a sense, they tie their policymaking hands, reducing policy uncertainty and ...

The big difference with Trump’s tariffs is that it is virtually impossible to predict their economic impact, since the size ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has stressed the importance of free trade and multilateralism and decried threats against democracy as he and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba agreed ...