We are a third of the way through President Donald Trump’s second term. I thought it might be useful to assess how one of the administration’s major policies—its trade policy—is performing vis-à-vis ...

Gavin Bade is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Washington focused on trade, economics and industrial policy.

Trade-policy concerns became a major source of US stock market volatility in 2018. For example, the S&P 500 fell 2.5 percent on March 22, 2018, reacting to news about just-announced US tariffs on tens ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, slated to give her acceptance speech tonight as the Democratic Party’s nominee for the presidency, would likely infuse U.S. trade policy with more environmental ...

Our political leaders don’t need to be professional economists, but it would be great if at some point in their education and life experience they learned and internalized basic economic thinking.

Participants walk in front of the main entrance during the United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Participants walk in front of the main entrance during the United Nations ...

U.S. trade policy can still solve problems but requires new approaches that engage with current realities rather than wishful thinking, says former chief of staff to the U.S. trade representative.

Chinese and Trump administration officials are supposed to meet later this week to hammer out a trade agreement, but the challenge may be more difficult now that Trump has threatened to impose ...