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April 11, 2025
Blog

International Students Benefit the United States
While keeping Americans safe remains a top priority, it is important to recognize the benefits international students bring to the US.
By Kayla Susalla
April 7, 2025
Blog

The Mysterious Transformation of Peter Navarro
Why did Peter Navarro transform from a free trader to a protectionist?
By Thomas A. Firey
April 7, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Phillip W. Magness’ Globalization: Then and Now chapter, “The Problem of the Tariff in American Economic History, 1787–1934,” is cited on WNIS’ Macrini In The Morning
Featuring Phillip W. Magness
April 3, 2025
Media Highlights Radio

Cato Institute globalization chapter, “The Problem of the Tariff in American Economic History, 1787–1934,” is cited on the Unchained podcast
Featuring Cato Institute
March 28, 2025
Blog

Immigration Benefits the Destination Country
Research finds, however, that immigration has large benefits for the destination country.
By Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter
March 14, 2025
Blog

Tariffs, Uncertainty, and Small Businesses
Thanks to Trump’s tariff policies, the bloom appears to be off the rose with the small business community.
By Tad DeHaven
March 13, 2025
Media Highlights TV

Daniel Griswold discusses his Defending Globalization essays on the Human Progress Podcast
Featuring Daniel Griswold
March 10, 2025
Blog

Freedom, Not Tariff, Is the Most Beautiful Word in the Dictionary
If President Trump really wants to “Make America Great Again,” he will need to make freedom, not protectionism and tariffs, the center of his policy agenda.
By James A. Dorn
February 10, 2025
Blog

More Costly Steel Tariffs on the Horizon
Sixty-plus years of American steel protectionism—and nearly seven since the first Trump administration’s “national security” tariffs—have not succeeded at reversing the industry’s long-term decline. Yet they have imposed and continue to impose significant costs on Americans.
By Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
February 7, 2025
Blog

Will Trump’s “Reciprocal Trade” Only Go One Way?
The idea that the United States must adopt “reciprocity”—and in the process become a tariff-wielding protectionist outlier—because of some grave historical trade injustice is just detached from reality.
By Scott Lincicome
February 6, 2025
Blog

‘De-Globalization’ Still Isn’t Happening (At Least Not Yet)
Buried in yesterday’s Census Bureau release of the latest US international trade data for full-year 2024 was a nice reminder that, for all the talk of tariffs and “de-globalization,” American consumers and companies aren’t having any of it—at least not yet. In fact, inflation-adjusted US goods imports hit an all-time high last year.
By Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
January 31, 2025
Blog

Should the US Respond to “Unfair” Trade Practices?
Subsidies for particular industries harm the countries that adopt them by distorting the allocation of productive activity and forcing residents to pay higher taxes. But such policies benefit the United States overall.
By Jeffrey Miron
January 29, 2025
Blog

Seven Charts Showing How Canada/Mexico Tariffs Would Harm the US Auto Industry (and American Car Buyers)
Particular industries and individuals would disproportionately suffer from Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico. In this blog post, we focus on the US automotive industry and provide seven charts showing how Trump’s tariffs will harm its operations and workers, as well as American car consumers.
By Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
January 17, 2025
Blog

“Let Them Eat Fish”
About 90 percent of all avocados consumed in the United States are imported, and Americans enjoy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food from abroad, much of it fresh fruits and vegetables that can’t be grown here in significant commercial quantities. Tariffs on these products would mean higher US food prices and less variety at the supermarket, making us all a little poorer in the process.
By Scott Lincicome
January 3, 2025
Blog

Industrial Policy, Whether Republican or Democrat, Is Anti-Liberty
There is no way the government can comprehend or calculate the billions of decisions that consumers make when they buy and sell stuff all over the country every second of every day.
By Michael Chapman