Biden's new trade representative should outline a plan to remove the economically nonsensical and politically pointless tariffs on European steel and aluminum in order to deescalate this costly conflict.
Further evidence that tariffs simply don't make sense as trade policy. President Joe Biden should take note.
In comments to The New York Times Magazine published this week, the new treasury secretary says free trade has been "so negative" for "a large share of the population." That's just wrong.
Reimplementing 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imported from the United Arab Emirates for vacuous national security reasons only entrenches executive authority over trade.
Biden should repeal Trump's food taxes immediately.
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Pandering to maritime unions means higher costs and harsher lives for coastal minority populations.
Biden is seeking unity, but bipartisan agreement on bad policy is nothing to cheer for.
So far, Britain has signed 63 new trade deals, including with the E.U.
Five reasons why Trump's trade war didn't go the way he thought it would.
Trump escalated America's war against Huawei and China. Biden should beware burgeoning technonationalism.
Sen. Josh Hawley, a supporter of Trump's trade policies, lobbied to give a special exemption to a Missouri-based power tools manufacturer. Many other elected officials did too.
Shutting down the GSP program would reduce economic growth in developing countries and raise taxes on American importers.
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The scientific and medical knowledge used to develop and distribute the vaccines is not, thankfully, trapped within national borders.
The current administration’s trade policies have left the incoming president some low-hanging fruit.
On his first day in office, Donald Trump tore up the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His administration is now seeking to put together something similar.
If governments stand in the way of vaccine production and distribution for the world market, the costs will be high in lives and in wealth.
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American farmers and consumers deserve freer trade.
Navarro is the missing link between the democratic socialists on the left and the economic nationalists on the right.
If Trump loses his bid for re-election, it will be because Rust Belt voters abandoned him after four years of misguided economic policies.
The Taiwanese manufacturer promised Trump and then–Governor Scott Walker 13,000 new jobs and a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. They've delivered a mostly empty building that's one-twentieth the promised size.
Forty years later, the libertarian Nobel laureate's PBS series is still winning hearts and minds.
The E.U. is considering levying $4 billion in new tariffs on American goods, with alcohol likely to be one of the targets.
Too bad Biden's position isn't as good as Pence makes it sound.
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The lawsuits have been filed over the past two weeks by several major American companies, including retailers Target and Home Depot, car manufacturers Tesla and Ford, and several major manufacturing firms.
Trump's farm bailouts have cost taxpayers more than $28 billion already, and he just announced another $14 billion in payments as part of his reelection pitch to farm-heavy states.
Policymakers have become convinced that the crony capitalist institution is the ideal tool for countering the influence of the PRC.
First the Trump administration told us aluminum imported from Canada was a national security threat. Then it suddenly decided it's not a big deal.
A Wisconsin business owner who spoke about losing business to China ended up inadvertently undermining the administration's argument for protectionism.
Thanks to a paradoxical Trump bump, nearly 90 percent of both Democrats and Republicans now say they support international trade.
Unfortunately, Biden has carefully avoided committing to changing much of anything about Trump's trade policies.
In the president’s mind, trade is not a right to be respected but a process to be managed by politicians.
The last time an incumbent president was defeated, the fact that he'd raised taxes on Americans played a major role. Trump's done the same thing, but the DNC didn't talk about it.
Exiled from the Republican Party, some Bush-era Republicans are now backing Joe Biden. Colin Powell endorsed him on Tuesday night.
The Trump administration is spending big money to make sure America's drug supply chains aren't dependent on China. But that's not really necessary.
Trump's trade war with China has been an outright failure. It shouldn't be too much to expect Biden to be able to say so.
One month after signing a signature trade deal with Canada (and Mexico), Trump just launched an unnecessary and counterproductive new trade war against America's northern neighbor.
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The Trump administration's "economic nationalist" agenda is little more than a cronyist attempt at propping up domestic companies with taxpayer cash.
Biden says he'll oppose attempts to repeal the Jones Act and will push for tighter "Buy American" policies that hike the price of infrastructure projects.
Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
Abolishing tariffs would have short- and long-term benefits for the economy.
The trendy view of U.S.–China economic engagement lends itself to policy “fixes” that could make things worse, not better, for both the United States and the world.
The deal will affect more than $1 trillion in annual trade between the U.S. and its two neighbors.
Just days before the new North American trade deal is set to take effect, the Trump administration reminds everyone that it prefers protectionism to free trade.
