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Ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the President’s Authority Under IEEPA to Impose Tariffs

08/29/2025

How Donald Trump Should have Tackled the US Trade Deficit

08/19/2025

US Negotiators Face Tough Task to Secure Trade Deal with China

08/18/2025

Reflections on the Angels on the Head of Jamieson Greer’s Pin

08/12/2025

Taxation Without Representation: How Trump’s Tariff Policy Undermines Democracy And International Legal Norms

08/04/2025

Trump, Tariffs & Trade Wars

08/04/2025

A Progressive Industrial Policy for the Global South: A Latin American Perspective

07/28/2025

An Alliance For Open Trade: How To Counter Trump’s Tariffs

07/27/2025

Tariffs, Trade Tensions and Climate Policy: The New Frontier of Green Trade Measures

07/26/2025

Which Country Should Design U.S. Industrial Policy?

07/16/2025

Blogs

Contributors provide unique perspectives on critical trade issues. Author’s views are their own, and do not reflect the views of WITA, its Board or its staff.

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The President’s Long-Forgotten Power To Raise Tariffs

John Veroneau and Kate Gibson | 12/20/2016

President-elect Trump’s expressed interest in possibly raising tariffs on imported goods has prompted considerable effort in trying to understand the scope of Presidential authority to raise tariffs. While the Congress…

Trade Remedies
U.S. Policy

A Trade Agenda for President (elect) Trump – On China, NAFTA, TPP & the “Benefit” Of A Trade War

Bill Lane | 11/11/2016

WASHINGTON, November 11, 2...

Globalization
TPP
Trade Agreements
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

The Truth about the United States and International Trade

Stephen Creskoff | 11/04/2016

 During the 2016 elections Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and other politic...

U.S. Policy

There’s Only a Slim Chance TPP Will Be Ratified This Year

Alan Wolff | 05/05/2016

This article originally appears on Fortune.com on May 5, 2016 But it shoul...

Globalization
TPP
Trade Agreements
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

What the Presidential Candidates Get Wrong About Free Trade

Alan Wolff | 04/14/2016

This article originally appeared on Fortune.com  on April 14, 2016. It’s not a...

Globalization
Trade Agreements
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

The Economic Game-Changer no Presidential Candidate Wants to Talk About

Alan Wolff | 01/28/2016

It’s the only area of bipartisan agreement. There was a fair amoun...

Globalization
Trade Agreements
Trade Law
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

Did the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Cause the Great Depression?

Bill Krist | 06/16/2014

Eighty four years ago on this day President Hoover signed the now-infamous Smoot-H...

Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

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