The era of lower trade barriers and greater economic interdependence is waning, and President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade war is further stoking that trend. Economists at Wells Fargo recently ...

"China-US trade is 3% of world trade," said the director general of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (pictured during the IC Forum at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in February). "So when ...

President Donald Trump is threatening to add an additional 10% tariff on countries that align with the so-called “anti-American policies of BRICS,” after the group, which is currently meeting in Rio ...

Spain expects the agreement with the South American trading bloc Mercosur to be ratified by the end of the year, Economy ...

Countries in the South American Mercosur bloc have signed a free trade deal with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. The agreement, announced Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, aims to ...

The October meeting will let members suggest improvements to the RCEP trade deal and consider requests from some countries to join. The U.S. tariffs are expected to be a key point of discussion during ...

A U.S. federal court on Wednesday blocked most of Donald Trump's sweeping import tariffs from going into effect, ruling that the president had overstepped his authority with the across-the-board ...

BRUSSELS — European trade ministers are meeting in Brussels on Monday, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of 30% tariffs on the European Union. The EU is America’s biggest ...

The vision by East African heads of state to ensure one trading bloc for the region is certainly welcome. Like the European Union, East Africa needs to come together to form a more formidable ...