This article documents the Great Trade Collapse of 2008-09, as well as the dramatic recovery in trade of 2009-10. The authors consider how three distinct policy actions - fiscal stimulus, funding for trade finance, and a commitment to refrain from increasing trade barriers - might have affected...

In this article, the authors present updated trade elasticities—measures of how much imports and exports change in response to income and price changes—for the U.S. and six other industrialized countries, collectively known as the Group of Seven. They find that the imports and exports of...

Rapid growth of the U.S. bilateral trade deficit with China has promoted a widespread view that the overall trade deficit is "made in China." The authors examine the probable consequences of increased protection directed toward U.S. imports from China. Their appraisal of recent and prospective...