by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
Back in 2019, I released this video to explain how the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been a net plus, helping to lower trade taxes and other barriers to cross-border commerce. I’m normally not a fan of international bureaucracies. But, unlike entities...
by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
Free trade is good and protectionism is bad. Assuming one agrees with those common-sense observations, the Tholos Foundation’s just-released Trade Barriers Index is a great source of data about which countries are pro-trade and...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Trade
Recent years have been very depressing for supporters of free trade. Trump pushed protectionist policies. Now Biden is pushing protectionist policies. And the European Union is pushing protectionist policies using global warming as an excuse. More...
by Brian Garst | Feb 14, 2023 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by RealClearPolicy on February 7, 2023. Economic protectionism is an old, global practice that can take many forms, but almost always results in harm to both consumers and companies alike. One popular tactic in the protectionism playbook is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 16, 2022 | Blogs, Trade
I narrated a video making the case for free trade back in 2019. This new video from Kite & Key builds on that effort. Indeed, it also incorporates many of the lessons that were in my video on the benefits of creative destruction. If you don’t have...
