Trade
Publications
It has become conventional wisdom around the Beltway that the United States and China are on a collision course—a new “cold war.” The new cold warriors on both sides of the aisle argue that…
From Freopp:
The U.S. has worsened the problem by making the 12-year auto-monopoly a key sticking point in its trade negotiations with the Pacific Rim and with Canada and Mexico: demanding that…
From Americans for Free Trade:
Subsidies, Tariffs and Trade Wars: A Terrible Harvest for U.S. Agriculture (R Street Institute):
The Trump administration’s trade policies have been a disaster for…
Perhaps all of this damage to the American economy, and particularly the agricultural economy, might be justified if China were changing its economic model in a market-oriented way, but early…
From Driving American Jobs:
One of the latest threats facing the auto industry is the decision last month to reinstate Section 232 national security tariffs on certain aluminum products from…
Tarriffs harm American consumers and fighting the WTO (rather than using it) also undermines America’s advantages.
With the coronavirus, China effectively annexing Hong Kong through the new national…
President Trump has resurrected his national security tariffs on Canadian aluminum, in spite of having removed them as a condition for passage of the renegotiated NAFTA last spring. Now, less than…
Between the outbreak of a global pandemic and aggressive trade wars, the last several years have been trying times for America’s farmers and ranchers.
In order to mitigate the damage from…
From Reason:
The Avalere report, which looked at APIs—the building blocks of finished pharmaceutical products—comes to a similar conclusion. China is the third largest provider of APIs to the…
From Foreign Policy:
With some 70 percent of Chinese imports now subject to tariffs, there will be corporate pressure for at least a partial rollback of the trade war. And his pro-business track…