India and New Zealand say they have reached a free trade deal to deepen economic ties amid global trade uncertainties ...

Italy plans to back the Mercosur free-trade agreement with a South American bloc of countries in a vote that will likely be ...

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It’s hard to know what that concepts means at the Heritage Foundation these days.

Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it sound as if we must choose between liberal trade policies and solving important policy problems at home. That’s a false choice.

Discover the evolution of international trade agreements from mercantilism to modern global trade, highlighting trends in multilateral and regional arrangements.

Free trade is the hallmark of capitalism – and has been since the publication, in 1776, of Adam Smith's classic, The Wealth of Nations. Free trade is widely embraced by economists as a beneficial ...

Freedom to trade—the freedom to exchange goods and services openly with others—is as fundamental to human well-being as any right guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. Indeed, the freedom to trade is ...

“We must always take heed that we buy no more of strangers than we sell them, for so we should impoverish ourselves and enrich them.” Those words, written in 1549 and attributed to the English ...

The economist Donald Boudreaux has said that “free trade improves efficiency and innovation.” He reasons that free trade, along with other market forces, shifts the workforce to “more productive uses, ...

Free trade agreements seek to eliminate barriers to imports and foster international trade. Yet environmentalists fear free trade also fosters a weakening of national environmental standards if trade ...