For the first time in our three-decade free trade history with North American partners, Mexico surpassed Canada as the top buyer of U.S. goods. This is significant; it means our trade relationship ...

Trucks pass through the World Trade Bridge from the U.S. into Mexico on Thursday, January 18, 2018, in Laredo, Texas. About 14,000 trucks cross the Laredo border every day. Ashley Landis / Staff ...

In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by the idea that “unhampered trade dovetailed with peace.” ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World ...