The abstract of a new NBER paper (ungated pdf here ): Over the past decades, the steel industry has been protected by a wide variety of tra...

KPC points to a NBER working paper by Lu, Scheve, and Slaughter on the politics of trade policy (ungated pdf here ). The abstract: One imp...

I'm a bit late to the party, I know (I've been busy), but apparently there's a trade skirmish going on that could escalate. I d...

Direct from the G20 summit: A commitmen t to "name and shame" countries that renege on free trade agreement. If protectionism ste...

The current G-20 summit, like most, is often big on headlines but short on substance. There are the requisite anti-everything protests , the...

Yet another round of debate on “trade, income, and compensation.” In case you are just tuning in, the trade, income, and compensation deba...

More protectionist rumblings targeted at China from Congress. "Passed by a vote of 20-1, the Senate Finance Committee's measure w...

As the Democrats in Congress fret and fuss about "globalization," the Bush administration responds by moving to increase barriers ...