A new year brings new developments in trade. Four CFR experts highlight the trade policies they will be monitoring this year.

SEVERAL Chinese provinces and regions saw their 2025 foreign trade growth outpace the national average, driven by surging exports in electronics and new green products, according to official customs ...

MTA received a license to operate as a Foreign Trade Zone from the Port of Cleveland in February 2025. Since then, it has experienced approximately an 8% increase in revenue from its warehousing ...

Trade and tariffs are a central part of President Donald Trump’s international economic policy. Stay up to date with the Council on Foreign Relation’s 2026 calendar of significant trade-related events ...

The US has been demonstrating hostility towards international norms since the beginning of 2025, imposing discriminatory and ...

Amid the headlines and noise of the latest tariffs from Washington and the growing fears about the state of global trade, a quiet movement to support free and open commerce is taking place in world ...

To offset the rising costs of tariffs and trade war uncertainty, companies are using U.S. Customs-sanctioned foreign trade zones (FTZs) and bonded warehouses to delay or reduce product taxes. FTZs ...

As part of a shift toward growing existing businesses in Salt Lake City over recruiting new ones, officials quietly handed off control last fall of the city’s foreign-trade zone out by the airport.

The president is again threatening higher tariff rates on a dozen foreign nations, as a deadline elapses this week for making trade deals. By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson covers international trade and ...

The Trump Administration is pursuing a new style of trade management based on use of tariffs to rectify trade deficits and to set new “reciprocal” tariff rates to level the playing field for all of ...