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Tariffs and the Trade Balance: How Trump Validated His Critics

Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca | Council on Foreign Relations | 04/21/2021

Before Donald Trump became president in 2017, Americans paid tariffs on just two percent of their imported goods. The average tariff rate was 1.7 percent. In 2018, however, Trump launched…

Will Biden Repeat Trump’s Automotive Mistakes?

Scott Lincicome | CATO Institute | 02/12/2021

The New York Times yesterday provided an in-depth look at the Bide...

Trump’s Trade Failure Can Be Biden’s Win On China And WTO

Christine McDaniel | Forbes | 02/01/2021

By former President Trump’s own metric, his trade war with ...

How Trump’s Tariffs Really Affected the U.S. Job Market

Michael Pettis | Carnegie Endowment | 01/28/2021

A recent study on U.S.-China trade concludes that Trum...

Trump-Biden Buy American Policies: Costly for Taxpayers

Bryan Riley | National Taxpayers Union Foundation | 01/26/2021

After President Trump made issuing a Buy Am...

Biden’s trade policy needs effective commercial diplomacy

Earl Anthony Wayne & Shaun Donnelly | The Hill | 01/15/2021

The incoming Biden administration has...

Trade Policy and Race/Ethnicity

Simon Lester | International Economic Law and Policy Blog | 01/12/2021

There was some Twitter discussion last week of a new paper ...

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