tradewardaily

Standards

tradewardaily covers global trade policy and its consequences: tariffs, the responses to them, and what they cost and deliver for households, farms, ports, markets and the courts. We read outlets across the political spectrum and around the world, alongside the governments' own statements and legal documents, then sort, de-duplicate and rank what we find.

Nonpartisan by design

We take no side on trade policy. Our sources span left, right and center, U.S. and foreign press, and every government involved. We carry the administration's own statements and its critics' arguments, and when a policy's stated aims are reported we present them alongside its reported costs. Characterizations are attributed to whoever made them. External opinion stays distinct from reporting. TWD document analysis may lead when its sources and evidence checks support publication.

Every story is sourced

Headlines link straight to the outlet that reported them. When several outlets carry the same story we group them and show the count; freshness and source evidence determine what leads. Older coverage remains in the archive. On the Record links to official statements; The Paper Trail links to the Federal Register and presidential actions.

Figures are reported, never invented

Dollar amounts and tariff rates in The Meter are lifted from the reporting itself and link back to it. We do not model, project or estimate figures of our own.

Research pipeline

The hosted source desk refreshes every ten minutes. Every six hours, when primary evidence changes, Gemini extracts source-exact facts, Claude drafts a document analysis, and Gemini performs a separate evidence review. Code rejects missing citations, unsupported numbers and invented reporting claims. A held draft remains unpublished; a new timestamp is not added to unchanged reporting. Primary documents, publication dates, retrieved excerpts and limitations accompany each analysis. This is source-based analysis, not a claim of interviews or field reporting. Check pipeline status.

Earlier edition dispatches

Each section's dispatch runs under its desk's name; the front-page briefing, The Tab, runs under The Editors. Dispatches are assembled with software from the numbered sources beneath them, and every factual sentence carries a citation you can click. A dispatch says nothing its sources do not.

What we read

Corrections

If a dispatch misstates a source, the source wins. Tell us and we will fix it.