CNN

There are hundreds of temporary tariff-free zones — and they’re in the US

Companies are increasingly turning to a Depression-era policy to avoid President Donald Trump’s tariffs, importing goods into designated US zones where they don’t have to pay tariffs until they want ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Trade, Tariffs, and Treasuries: The Hidden Cost of Trump’s Protectionism

While the Treasury market is likely to remain stable next year, longer-term trade and fiscal trends—such ...
Cfr.org

Free Trade Can’t Bring Peace

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by ...
Marketplace

Local governments see foreign trade zones as economic engines

Ever since the Trump administration upended global trade with a wave of tariffs on imported goods, some companies have been trying to seek shelter in foreign trade zones. These are specially ...
WLRN

How can a product be imported tariff-free to Miami without entering the U.S.? Welcome to the FTZ

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Among the warehouses that bump up against the Everglades, west of the Florida Turnpike in Miami-Dade County, is a door. And on that door is a sign. On that ...
AZ Central

As tariffs become more common, Arizona businesses seek foreign trade zones for tax relief

Threats of increased tariffs and ever-changing federal deadlines have left businesses that rely on importing and exporting products with uncertainty and questions, but a program created during the ...
Foreign Policy

How Countries Should Respond to Trump’s Tariffs

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PBS

Analysis: The trade-offs in Trump’s trade policy

This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...
Star Tribune

DigiKey is one of largest foreign trade zones in country, mitigating some of its tariff costs

DigiKey runs Minnesota’s largest distribution center in Thief River Falls, about two hours from Hector International Airport in Fargo, three hours from the Canadian border facility in International ...
Foreign Policy

Trump’s Tariffs Are an Unconstitutional Power Grab

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Talking Points Memo

Experts Say Foreign Governments Are ‘Playing Trump’ on Tariffs

President Donald Trump on Thursday night signed an executive order applying blanket tariffs to scores of countries. In announcing tariffs ranging from 10% to 41% levied against around 70 countries, ...
Foreign Affairs

How China Armed Itself for the Trade War

How did the world’s two largest economies stumble toward a trade war that neither truly seeks and which the rest of the world can’t afford? Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” ...