In the final months of 2017, the most significant advance in Russia’s relationship with Latin America was arguably the inclusion of eight Latin American teams in the 32-team field for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Russia was almost absent from media coverage of the BRICS+...

If the Trump administration decides to junk the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the United States would be free to raise tariffs on Mexico and Canada 180 days after formal notification to Congress. In response, either or both countries could decide to retaliate....

July 16, 2017, marked the final deadline under the highly publicized Donald Trump–Xi Jinping 100-day action plan for resolving key U.S.-China trade issues, a major outcome of the two presidents’ April 2017 meeting in Florida. Intensive, results-oriented negotiations on a...

Last month, we at CSIS had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable on one of the most dynamic and innovative coalitions in the Western Hemisphere: The Pacific Alliance. At a time when the old vanguards of free trade are retreating into more protectionist policies, this...

Full implementation of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), which entered into force on February 22, 2017, is estimated to produce up to US$1 trillion in global export gains annually and create 20 million jobs worldwide, and the United...

President Trump’s exchange with President Juan Carlos Varela of Panama sparked a social media maelstrom last week. “The Panama Canal is doing quite well. I think we did a good job building it, right?” Trump

The United States is the main economic partner of the countries in the Caribbean. These small developing countries are long-standing friends and consistent allies. In spite of transnational crime and narcotics transiting the air and sea space, they have maintained an...

On April 24, Ivanka Trump and World Bank president Jim Kim authored an op-ed in the Financial Times on women’s economic empowerment (WEE). As we wrote in the CSIS report

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly and harshly criticized the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Last month, the Washington Post reported that President Trump was

Suriname’s economy is in a steep recession. This was made painfully evident in this month when Independence Square across from the Presidential Palace in the capital, Paramaribo, was filled with demonstrators opposed to the government’s price increases for fuel, water,...