Biden says his Cabinet picks will help him restore American leadership in the world.
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President-elect Biden hopes to restore America’s global leadership on issues like trade, but populists in both parties may make his job a lot harder.
There are already reports that Trump is mulling a run in 2024.
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Only one American president – Grover Cleveland – has lost reelection and then won back his office.
Victory: supporters of Jair Bolsonaro celebrate in October 2018.
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A new study shows how economic shocks caused by cuts to import tariff cuts in the 1990s is linked to the rise of populism in Brazil.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London in December 2019.
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Canada’s free-trade obsession has made us overly reliant on global supply chains. That’s a huge unforced error given that 19 years ago, 9/11 showed us just how quickly border policy can change.
The next 20 years of Britain’s electricity policy must look very different from the previous 20.
Many fear the U.K. will be worse off economically outside the EU.
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Brexit represented British voters’ desire to reclaim more control over their economic future, but some worry the cost will be some of the prosperity gained from globalization.
‘For the sake of the husbands, wouldn’t it be better if these records were kept out of Australia?’
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The Tariff Board was told that if women could buy music that was cheap they would buy music that was dirty.
Leaders of the three countries signed the USMCA in November 2018.
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President Trump and Democrats recently agreed on a deal to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. A trade scholar explains what’s new.
Some gifts may soon get more expensive.
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New tariffs on $160 billion of Chinese goods including smartphones and sneakers are set to take effect on Dec. 15.
Bonar Law, leader of the Conservative Party, addressing a crowd at Blehnheim Palace in 1912.
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The crisis of Conservatism of the early 20th century has some parallels for the party today.
Australian roads are straight, as has been the trajectory of our economic policy for more than 30 years.
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Australia’s secret weapon has been faith in market outcomes combined with a strong social safety set.
Pierre Trudeau is saluted by an RCMP officer as he carries son Justin to Rideau Hall in 1973, when the elder Trudeau was in a similar political situation as his son is today.
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There’s a different Trudeau in office in 2019 than there was in 1972, but Justin Trudeau is also leading a minority government, just as his father did — and the Canada-U.S. relationship is key.
President Trump and Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison insist it matters whether China is classified as “developed” or “developing” in the World Trade Organisation matters. It may not.
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In complaining about China’s alleged special treatment by the World Trade Organization, US President Donald Trump and Australia’s Scott Morrison are pointing to something that isn’t really there.
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The US is still a major world power and world leaders need to keep in Donald Trump’s good books.
French wines for sale at a Los Angeles supermarket on August 18, 2019.
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French wine is the subject of an ongoing trade dispute between the US and EU, but tariffs could have impacts not intended by US president Donald Trump.
The Australian dollar has already slipped, falling to its lowest point against the US since the global financial crisis.
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President Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on US$300 billion of China’s exports has set up a currency war that has engulfed Australia.
China retaliated with tariffs on U.S. imports after Trump imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports.
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The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
Parliament House of Ghana.
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Ghana is taking advantage of its strategic location in Africa
Congress was once the seat of all power on U.S. trade policy.
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President Trump has unilaterally raised tariffs and sparked trade wars, all without consulting Congress. A century ago, the roles were reversed.
The founders weren’t exactly free traders.
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Arguments over Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are just the latest salvo in a heated debate that has raged since the dawn of the American republic.