Beyond the short-term volatility and uncertainty created by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff machinations, it’s likely that the longer-term trend of the world splitting into two trading blocs is ...

In the real sense of it, the emergence of Trump in his “second missionary journey” and the raft of executive orders he’s ...

Africa is richly endowed, with an estimated 20% of global copper reserves, about the same for aluminium raw materials, 50% of manganese and cobalt, 90% of platinum group metals, 36% of chromium, as ...

Steep tariffs risk sparking retaliatory measures that could rattle the domestic economy. It’s happened before.

Dozens of countries have already been directly affected by Trump’s threats of tariffs and the withdrawal of US aid since he ...

However, the immediate impact of China's measures on imports of U.S. crude, LNG and coal is likely to be limited. China ...

ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mass deportations from the US, promised by Trump, could worsen these problems, as happened in El Salvador in the late 1990s.

A growing number of countries, including American allies, are striking trade deals as the Trump administration erects a ...

A full-fledged economic pressure campaign by the US against the BRICS countries might be imminent. Trump reposted late ...

Trump says the U.S. will feel “some pain” from tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, but it’ll be “worth the price” to stop decades of economic rip-offs. Mexico is preparing countermeasures while ...