Free Trade Agreements

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Why, After 200 Years, Can’t Economists Sell Free Trade?

Featuring Alan S. Blinder (Princeton University)
May 25, 2017
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Nearly All US Trade Deals Were Negotiated, Signed, and Implemented by Republicans

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)
August 16, 2017
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru November 19, 2016.
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The Truth about Trade Agreements—and Why We Need Them

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
November 21, 2016

Recent Content

Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Rebuild the Trans-Pacific Partnership back better

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

November 30, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: In or out?

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE), Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE) and Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu*

June 23, 2020
PIIE Chart

Regional trade agreements will reorient East Asian economies away from the US

Peter A. Petri (PIIE) and Michael G. Plummer (Johns Hopkins University and East-West Center)
June 16, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

The US retreat from East Asia is costly

Peter A. Petri (PIIE) and Michael G. Plummer (Johns Hopkins University and East-West Center)

June 11, 2020
Working Paper

East Asia decouples from the United States: Trade war, COVID-19, and East Asia's new trade blocs

Peter A. Petri (PIIE) and Michael G. Plummer (Johns Hopkins University and East-West Center)

June 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

US-Kenya trade negotiations: A chance to get it right

Anabel González (PIIE)

February 12, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Reinventing the Wheel: Phase One of the US-Japan Trade Pact

Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)

September 27, 2019
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Will Pelosi Allow a House Vote on USMCA?

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)
September 23, 2019
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

The EU-Mercosur Trade Accord Sends a Signal to the World’s Protectionists

Anabel González (PIIE)

July 2, 2019
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

The USMCA, Newly Jeopardized, Was Never a Free Trade Agreement

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)
June 4, 2019