Publications
From the Wall Street Journal:
“This type of process is relatively opaque and inherently prone to favoritism,” said Clark Packard, trade-policy counsel at the free-market think tank R Street…
From CNBC:
Michael Hirson of Eurasia Group and Clark Packard of R Street Institute discuss a bombshell report alleging that spy chips installed by a Chinese company have been found in hardware used…
From Reason:
“I think this creates a weird incentive,” says Clark Packard, a trade policy analyst at the R Street Institute. “Companies could instead just forgo duty-free trading under USMCA and…
Re: CBP Dec. 18–09; Docket No. USCBP–2018– 0033
Dear Secretary Mnuchin, Director Mulvaney, Administrator McAleenan, and Administrator Rao:
On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we…
From Investor’s Business Daily:
As the R Street Institute think tank reminds us, “According to 2015 U.S. Census data, steel mills employ about 140,000 Americans, while steel-consuming industries,…
The United States and Mexico came to terms on a new “agreement” last month that would, in theory, replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Or, at least, part of it. But to make the…
The United States and Mexico announced yesterday that they have reached formal agreement on a number of issues in the NAFTA renegotiation. While it still remains very unclear how this development…
Thanks largely to the foresight of Cordell Hull, former President Franklin Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, trade policy has been a vital component of broader American foreign ‘paw’licy since…
From Reason:
“The agreement needs to include Canada as well,” says Clark Packard, trade policy counsel at the R Street Institute, a free market think tank in Washington, D.C. “It’s obvious that the…
When Comcast designed a mobile app for its cable customers to schedule DVR recordings over the Internet, the company likely had no idea they would end up violating a federal importation law. But…