A new year brings new developments in trade. Four CFR experts highlight the trade policies they will be monitoring this year.

The White House announced a new trade policy and tariff plan Thursday night, just hours before the Aug. 1 trade deadline. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing new tariffs on ...

Silver’s importance as an industrial metal and the tight supply situation present a positive backdrop for prices. However, ...

This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "Under the deal unveiled last week, Britain will raise the ...

E-commerce giants everywhere felt the sting Wednesday when President Donald Trump announced that the US will be “suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value shipments” worth $800 or less ...

The August 1 tariff announcements have clarified the United States’ trade policy, but important details remain unclear. Key questions persist around the definition of transshipment, how countries ...

This paper introduces the Trade Policy Activity (TPA) Index, a novel indicator measuring evolving global trade policy dynamics since the Global Financial Crisis. Using a Dynamic Factor Model on ...

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, released last Thursday, makes one thing unmistakably clear: The United States no longer sees trade policy as a tool of economic betterment ...

This article originally appeared in the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs’ CIDOB International Yearbook 2026 and was translated to Spanish and Catalan. It is reprinted with permission. Just ...