The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down protectionist state wine and liquor laws on the grounds that they illegally discriminated against out-of-state wineries and out-of-state alcohol retailers. Yet ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. Mark Benedict Barry Library of Congress Protectionism doesn’t work, and history ...

"The Reagan Administration's trade policy became clear: Espouse free trade but find an excuse on every occasion to embrace the opposite," wrote David Stockman, budget director for the Reagan ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s economic proposals offer a mix of opportunities and challenges for U.S. manufacturers. While tax cuts and deregulation might offer financial benefits, increased tariffs ...

A senior Chinese leader called for increased global cooperation and opposition to protectionist measures, in a thinly veiled critique aimed at the US for destabilizing trade and geopolitical relations ...

As President Donald Trump works to negotiate a trade deal between the United States and European Union ahead of his July 9 deadline, a new report lays out how the EU’s protectionist policies ...