EU states gave the go-ahead on Friday for the bloc to sign its largest free trade accord with the South American group ...

The agreement represents a push for deeper global cooperation, in contrast to the United States’ turning to coercion in its ...

The European Union is renewing negotiations for a free trade agreement with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela ...

Discover Frederic Bastiat's influence as a 19th-century economist known for critiquing protectionism and promoting free trade ...

Dozens of angry farmers have demonstrated in France and Greece, halting traffic and blocking roads with tractors to protest ...

With the year coming to a close, we're sharing our most popular Planet Money bonus episode of 2025! As U.S. trade with China ...

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.

Policies meant to lure importers to Hainan, a resort island off China’s coast, signal an opening up, Beijing says. One expert ...

The regulation of commercial activity across countries is the focus of free trade and fair trade policies, but both address the topic from different perspectives. Free trade focuses on the reduction ...

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 ...

After decades of shouting into the void that free trade is good, those of us in the "eliminate tariffs, embrace comparative advantage, and let me buy my haggis-flavored chips online without an import ...

“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 ...