Tag: Trade Policy & Agreements

On May 14, Washington slapped new tariffs on China in what looks at first glance like the latest round of a familiar trade spat. The White House imposed duties of ...

 The winner of the escalating, zero-sum green technology trade war between the United States and China may well be climate change. In the latest surge of election-year techno-nationalism, to protect ...

In the space of one week this month, China and the United States held two bilateral meetings of the kind that have been rare in recent years amid their escalating ...

It is now well-known that Beijing has distorted certain markets in part by introducing massive subsidies. For example, China now produces electric vehicles that are widely seen as cheaper and ...

Comparative advantage is dead, it seems. U.S. President Joe Biden has introduced new tariffs on Chinese imports, moving them to 100 percent on electric vehicles, 25 percent on batteries, and ...

Josep Borrell is in a reflective mood about Europe’s role in the world—a question whose answer he has spent the last four years shaping as the European Union’s foreign-policy chief. ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is rarely shy about criticizing foreign governments—usually that of the United States or other Latin American nations. Yet in January, López Obrador published a ...

Without Indonesian nickel, the United States’ electric vehicle market will flounder. My nation sits on the world’s largest reserves of the metal that is central to EV batteries. In 2023, ...

Global governance, never really settled, has recently been having an especially hard time. Everyone believes in a rules-based system, but everyone wants to make the rules and dislikes it when ...

Even before Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel last weekend, U.S. officials had been urging China—a top Iranian trade partner—to use its influence to convince Tehran to ...