Alan Beattie

Even before their full effect has hit, the duties are doing real damage

Brussels is struggling to adapt to a conflict-ridden world trading system

Trump’s deals with Malaysia and Cambodia will not turn them into economic satellites in a cold war of commerce

The forthcoming ruling on Trump’s import duties will not stop him resorting to other methods

Europe and others must insulate their economies from Trump weaponising US tech

America’s use of import duties has been constrained by financial markets and economic reality

Javier Milei has wasted foreign exchange reserves trying to hold up the peso

The president could plausibly be blamed for rising prices in services including power, health and education

China is too unreliable a source of demand to replace the US in the trading system

While the president is steadily undermining the US economy he’s less likely to be trashing the global one

Successive British prime ministers have destroyed trust with a millefeuille of falsehood about asylum seekers

Marc Filippino talks to Council on Foreign Relations president Michael Froman, Alan Beattie and Steff Chávez

On tariffs and tax the president acts like a mafia boss, but not a very good one

US trade policy is a cautionary tale but not yet a catalyst of global disaster

EU and other trading partners are being bullied into opaque and unenforceable deals

EU is following its old playbook of negotiating and retaliating on tariffs

The EU is using the old trade playbook against a new and different threat

The US president’s bullying of Brazil is particularly inept

The EU in particular has failed to stick to a strategy

Political will cannot be magicked into existence by replacing the WTO