Alan Beattie

The US’s tariff policy evokes bafflement as well as fear

Governments are increasingly wary of relying on foreign communication systems

The White House is making up rationales for trade policy as it goes along

Big tax cuts and tariff hikes will prevent any new Plaza Accord to manage currencies

Flexible economies and free markets have kept globalisation going this year

The US has failed to reconcile open trade and homeland protection

Donald Trump’s obsession with import taxes belies their limited effects

Higher borrowing costs from tariffs and tax cuts will be the US’s main impact on carbon-saving investment worldwide

FT journalists responded to readers’ queries on how the global economy might change under the incoming president

The new administration confronts a WTO already undermined by long-standing US disapproval