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Toward a Cleaner, Smarter USMCA

C.J. Mahoney & Peter Harrell | Carnegie Endowment | 12/17/2024

By July 1, 2026, the parties to the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) must confirm in writing whether they wish to extend its term. Otherwise, a clock will start to tick…

Indonesia and the TPP: A Potential Coup for Rules-Based Free Trade

Kimura Fukunari | Nippon.com | 12/09/2024

Last September, Indonesia submitted a formal applicat...

Trade Corridor Wars: Escalating Competition Between China, Russia, Iran and the West

Antonia Colibasanu | Foreign Policy Research Institute | 12/06/2024

Contempor...

How Maritime Trade has Become a Tool of Diplomacy and Deterrence

Commander Rahul Verma (Retd) | Firstpost | 12/04/2024

The intricate ties between maritime trade, ...

What Would Trump’s Tariff Proposals Mean for U.S. Trade with Latin America?

Gladys Gerbaud | Americas Society/Council of the Americas | 12/03/2024

The presi...

Expect Trump’s Demands, Not Rules, to Govern US Trade Policy

Alan Wm. Wolff | Peterson Institute for International Economics | 12/03/2024

President-elect Donald...

Trade in 2025: A Conversation with Everett Eissenstat and Stephen Vaughn

WITA | 11/22/2024

On Wednesday, November 20, the Mercatus Center hosted an exclusive conv...

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