This article originally appeared in the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs’ CIDOB International Yearbook 2026 and was translated to Spanish and Catalan. It is reprinted with permission. Just ...

The United States (US), as part of the ongoing discussions on World Trade Organisation (WTO) reforms, has made a startling proposal that strikes at the core of the eight-decade-old multilateral ...

It is not every day that a former chief trade negotiator for the U.S. and the titular leader of the U.S. foreign policy establishment urges the abandonment of a rule-based international trading system ...

The rules-based international trade system is in danger, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday, amid spiralling debt, heavy tariffs and financial insecurity for emerging nations. Guterres said ...

The United States must play a more active role in reshaping the international economic order. Completely abandoning the international trading system would be a disaster for the American people and our ...

Governments around the world are increasingly looking to achieve a diverse set of policy goals by directly subsidizing the expansion of certain economic sectors over others. The motivations for ...

If re-elected, Donald Trump has plans to impose a 10 per cent tariff on all US imports and a 60 per cent tariff on Chinese goods, potentially triggering a global contagion of retaliatory measures.

Progress in global trade governance owes a lot to European and US collaboration. But as the US renounces its role of chief trade architect, the EU must consider alternative options After the second ...

Network analysis of international trade systems frames countries as nodes and trade flows as links, enabling a holistic view of global commerce. This approach employs graph‐theoretic metrics to reveal ...

The sweeping tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 2, along with the subsequent postponements and retaliations, have unleashed an enormous amount of global uncertainty. Much of the ...

Mr. Lighthizer, the author of “No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking On China, and Helping America’s Workers,” was the U.S. trade representative in the first Trump administration. See more of our ...