Trade and Economics

U.S. and EU penalties on Russian oil companies raise the stakes for New Delhi’s trade talks with Washington.

East Asian countries are using a tried-and-true method to woo the U.S. president and secure better trade deals.

Estonia’s president on Russia, Ukraine, NATO, drones, and Trump.

Did Argentine voters endorse their president’s economic overhaul—or cow to Trump’s threats?

Both sides are sending positive signals ahead of a Thursday meeting, but a temporary truce may be more likely.

Beijing is hoping to use an expanded free trade deal to portray itself as the bloc’s alternative to the United States.

Economist Jared Bernstein warns that revenues simply aren’t catching up with sky-high valuations.

Economic carrots and sanctions aren’t powerful enough to compensate Russia for giving up its maximalist aims.

From Japan to Pakistan, the deals keep coming.

The latest global picture on Trump’s tariff regime—including who has managed to cut a deal.

After signing several trade deals at the ASEAN summit, the U.S. president is turning his attention to Washington’s East Asian partners.

Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes to decrease Ottawa’s dependence on Washington.

By cutting U.S. support for labor rights around the globe, Washington is hurting workers at home and abroad.

Once-thriving crops are poorly adapting to new temperatures.

The conservative president-elect has an economic crisis in his inbox.

China’s complex new rules take on the entire world at once—and give Trump an opportunity.

Sweeping sanctions packages aim to curb funding for Moscow’s war effort.

The threat to Moscow’s oil earnings is huge. But will it be enough?

Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep.

Latin America’s right has welcomed centrist Sen. Rodrigo Paz’s victory.

Can the carbon-negative country enrich itself without harming the planet?

The move follows a U.S. decision to cancel plans for a peace summit in Budapest.

The continent’s largest emitter aims to cut coal and invest in nuclear and gas.

Billions for Buenos Aires, and support for Argentine farmers, is not sitting well in the U.S. heartland.

Love her or hate her, Italians aren’t used to this kind of stability.

Sanae Takaichi may not get a chance to implement her hard-line conservatism.

Timor-Leste’s president said it was easier to get into heaven than the Southeast Asian bloc.

Australia becomes the latest country to sign a deal with the U.S. president.

Cutting U.S. assistance to Bogotá will make it harder to stop record flows of cocaine.

Ottawa’s latest reforms are a blueprint for Washington’s victims around the world.

The world’s largest annual book event gets underway.

Even after the president’s impeachment, protests show little sign of slowing down.

The deal to sever China’s ties to the Panama Canal could boost its influence elsewhere in the region.

Washington and Beijing both believe they can manage the chaos. Neither can.

Bargaining with the president’s pension reform plan may not secure the support that Paris needs to pass a budget.

Trump is using the crisis to target his political enemies.

Beijing’s new export controls take a page from Washington’s playbook.

People’s Daily has laid out an optimistic scheme for industrial transformation.

Data discrimination leaves millions of people dangerously vulnerable.

A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth.

Four countries are defying global anti-migrant sentiment to offer free movement to their citizens.

Kyiv’s two-year offensive against Russian oil facilities has intensified, eating away at Moscow’s energy revenues.

More sanctions on LPG and “shadow fleet” tankers indicate more maximum pressure on Tehran.

A report suggests that Islamabad continues to use its critical minerals to attract U.S. financing.

Benjamin Netanyahu lacks a realistic vision for navigating Israel’s potential economic isolation.

Beijing’s control of rare-earth minerals will force Trump to find new leverage.

How an idea that promised a brave new world seemingly delivered dystopia instead.

Is there historical precedent for this kind of financial intervention?

Jobs across the continent are at risk as a duty-free deal with Washington lapses.

It’s not the economy, stupid.

Trump’s tariffs are having major ripple effects on the fashion industry’s female work force.

A two-pronged approach for the world’s most trade-dependent region.

Germany’s vocal support for mobilizing hundreds of billions of Moscow’s reserves could be a game-changer for Ukraine.

From Trump’s “chemistry” with Lula to a U.S. bailout of Argentina.

The U.S. leader is pressuring the world to abandon climate action. Will it work?

EU policymakers should channel their inner naturalists as they adapt to Trumponomics.

The White House has usurped the power to make foreign treaties and keeps their texts secret.

The Trump administration’s manipulation of statistics is exporting uncertainty into the international system.

Tech firms will spend trillions on AI in the coming years.

Dan Wang’s account of an engineering state mixes the grand and the intimate.

A discussion with Adam Tooze about his essay on the end of development.

EU measures to kneecap energy, banks, and defense firms contrast with Washington’s passivity.

Day one was filled with royal pageantry. Day two dodged the pitfalls of politics.

A year after winning national elections, the British leader is struggling.

Correctly defining conflict has high stakes in the insurance industry.

The dollar isn’t getting dethroned—yet—by outside rivals, but Trump may be doing their work for them.

Job losses are only one factor in the equation driving its financial decline.

Can the latest round of negotiations find a deal that sticks?

It’s time for some game theory.

The country has an export-driven manufacturing economy and signed an early deal with the United States.

Aid critics ignore competing policy goals and structural trade-offs between control and flexibility.

Both sides praised the agreement—but never seemed to agree on what it meant.

The White House believes that tariffs are the best strategy, but Brussels maintains that direct sanctions are more effective.

The United States can’t build the powerful technologies on its own.

A former CIA analyst-turned-senator thinks the Democratic Party needs a new vision focused on the economy.

Beijing should act to rein in a $2 billion industry.

The Russian economy may be wobbly, but it is still funding a deadly war with oil and gas sales.

Investors have drained the global south in pursuit of aggressive profit maximization.

From powerbrokers in the ’90s to pariahs today.

Once dismissed from the field he helped found, Albert O. Hirschman feels newly relevant.

Poorer countries have become more integrated but not necessarily more united.

Governments, civil society, and the private sector are reimagining development away from external interventions.

The West’s aid model was always a mirage. It’s time for a realistic alternative.

The origins of tennis still shape the sport—including how much players earn at the major tournaments.

Labor strife, climate shocks, and Chiquita’s uneasy return mark a new chapter for Panama’s banana industry.

The president’s chaotic agenda is making business even harder for one of his key voter bases.

With concrete steps, Washington can keep Syria’s future on track.

The Indian leader’s visit to China caps a nearly year-long effort to ease bilateral tensions.

How New Delhi is navigating U.S. tariffs and a shifting geopolitical reality.

Trump's economic program has damaged many weaker economies and makes even less sense for the United States.

The independence of the agency that sets monetary policy is under threat.

Avoiding digital dictatorship may mean rethinking our relationship with machines.

Is Trump hurting military readiness?

So why aren’t the president’s latest economic moves generating more alarm?

A resurgence in bilateral relations is one of the region’s more significant recent trends.

The U.S. government’s 10 percent stake in the chipmaker has broader implications. 

The duties are ostensibly aimed at Moscow, but they hit New Delhi hardest.

As a 50 percent total tariff kicks in, a former Indian diplomat says there’s still time for dialogue.

Central banks are independent for a reason.

A new book argues that the world’s two biggest economies need a bit more of each other’s cultures.