Learn about protectionism and its tools like tariffs, quotas, and subsidies, used to shield domestic industries and impact ...

President Donald Trump has finally figured out a way to make Mexico pay for his border wall: The United States will simply become Mexico, and the ultimate accounting gimmick will finally be complete.

Protectionism is a dirty word. It suggests an unwillingness to engage in the global economy, which economists believe results in negative consequences for both the domestic and international market ...

The current political environment has every protectionist on the planet crawling out from underneath the rocks where they've been hiding from the free traders these past 40 years. This is not going to ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum has lots of people talking about “protectionism,” which is a trade policy where countries “protect” their domestic industries ...

On June 28, Donald Trump delivered a speech of uncharacteristic narrative coherence to an audience in Monessen, Pennsylvania, a small city that used to specialize in steel manufacturing. He attributed ...

The DCCI president also criticised the lack of coordination between different government agencies, particularly the role of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) in trade and industrial policy ...

The world’s major powers are repeatedly breaking their pledges not to erect trade barriers, and there is no sign the “protectionist juggernaut” will ease as countries recover from the global downturn, ...

It has become commonplace to talk about a rise in protectionism around the world, not least because it is true; protectionism is rising. Anti-dumping tariffs on steel, for example, have been imposed ...

Deborah Elms, executive director at consultancy Asian Trade Centre, said governments around the world will turn increasingly protectionist in the near term as they try to limit the economic damage ...

Geopolitics is back in the spotlight, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel finally securing a governing coalition after nearly six months of uncertainty, while Italy embarks on its own period of ...

US protectionism is undermining agricultural cooperation with China, Beijing’s ambassador to Washington said, warning that farmers should not bear the price of the trade war between the world’s two ...