two recent bilateral FTAs pose immediate challenges to Taiwan firms: the EU-Korea FTA and the just completed US-Korea FTA.

In 2011, the United States’s sleepy free trade agenda finally got a shot of caffeine, but if the U.S. wants to seriously bolster its economy in 2012, policymakers ought to anchor their boats to the quay of an aggressive free trade agenda.

In the latest International Economics Outlook, AEI trade expert Claude Barfield assesses the progress of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the substantive and structural issues that have emerged during the negotiations.

Congress is set to pass three bilateral trade agreements that would generate substantial job and export growth in an economy that sorely needs both. And while boosting exports by an estimated $13 billion and jobs by 380,000 won't by themselves turn the economy around, their passage could set the stage for much larger gains in years to come.

President Álvaro Uribe has transformed his country. Congress should recognize this and approve a bilateral free trade agreement.

The U.S.-Taiwan economic relationship has been a model of free trade, economic growth, and prosperity in Asia. Taiwan’s liberal market economy and central location have made it a hub of global commerce, and its bilateral annual trade with the United States today is valued at over $60 billion. But the...

In the wake of this week's progress on advancing the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, most of the U.S. criticism, naturally, argues that the agreement is not in the U.S. interest.

After Congress passes FTAs with Korea, Columbia and Panama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) will become the single most important US trade initiative, serving as a building block for a larger Free Trade Area for the Asia Pacific Agreement.