The president has promised to put a stop to foreign companies ‘dumping’ steel on US markets. Former President Bush tried the same thing, and here’s what happened.
Terrorism has resulted in higher security surcharges at ports and airports.
Caron Firouz
The effects of terrorism in one country spill over across national borders to reduce the trade of other nations. This reduction in trade is long lived and may make it harder to combat terrorism.
Chinese President Xi Jinping may be the only person able to rein in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, Michael Dinneen
For real integration to happen, the Pan African Parliament needs to be imbued with supranational law-making powers. But national sovereignty is something that many states are reluctant to give up.
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
Sparks fly: workers produce steel at a small plant in Shenyang, northeast China.
EPA/MARK
The Trump administration’s new deal with China, which won’t benefit many workers, shows the pitfalls of pursuing bilateral agreements at the expense of multilateral ones like NAFTA.