When Japanese Premier Shigeru Ishiba first met Donald Trump in February, his plan was a promise to invest US$1 trillion in ...

The United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions, established in 1945 in a different era, have failed to accommodate the changes in the balance of power since then ...

On April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new taxes—dubbed “Liberation Day” tariffs—targeting imports ...

Ahead of a new August deadline, Japan wants concessions for its large automobile industry, while South Korea plans to intensify trade talks over the coming weeks ...

Powerhouse Asian economies Japan and South Korea said on Tuesday they would try to negotiate with the U.S. to soften the ...

Brian Janotivz, former White House Economic Counsel, said a long-term, sustainable solution may be on the agenda for both ...

India has notified the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods of its proposed suspension of concessions and other obligations under ...

Trump and his top trade advisers say he could extend the time for dealmaking but they insist the administration is applying ...

Canadians are rightly angry and scared about what the U.S. tariffs and threats will mean for the economy. When the trade war first began, the outlook was dire. But since then, Canada has swung from ...

In the sixth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tackle a selection of questions, and even ...

Negotiators remain tight-lipped, but observers think final agreement likely to retain some level of tariffs and quotas ...