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.
In a new book, former White House national security advisor John Bolton says Trump's trade deal negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping "commingled the personal and the national."
That's probably because those goals were always completely unrealistic. Less than six months after the deal was signed, it's already coming apart.
The Food and Drug Administration now says there is no evidence that any country attempted to cut off America's essential pharmaceuticals.
A new study finds that trade policies around the world effectively subsidize high-carbon industries.
President Donald Trump announced a significant escalation of his administration's conflict with the Chinese government—a conflict that is increasingly looking less like a trade war and more like a cold war.
Sen. Chuck Grassley says it's dead because lawmakers feared upsetting the president.
A member of the five-month-old company's board has been touting bogus stats about America's supposed dependency on Chinese-made drugs.
In a Senate floor speech Wednesday, Hawley outlined a half-baked plan to tear down global trade. It's aimed at winning elections, not helping America prosper.
Two economists calculate that U.S. farms lost $14 billion because of retaliatory tariffs, while South American countries boosted their exports by $13 billion to fill the gap.
Hawley is charting the next path for the Trump-style anti-trade nationalism that has infected the Republican Party.
"The tariff is making it more difficult for companies to supply our nation's essential workers with antiseptics and sanitizing products they need."
The department has granted just 1 percent of the tariff exemption requests that were challenged by domestic steel producers.
The White House announced a temporary suspension of tariff payments as a way to stimulate the American economy, but the relief will not apply to tariffs on steel, aluminum, or imports from China.
Ill workers in processing facilities, the forced death of restaurants, and national and international storage and shipping disruptions all threaten our food supply.
General Motors is being charged import taxes on parts it needs to build ventilators. Its requests for relief have gone unanswered.
Export restrictions only make sense if you're unable to understand the obvious consequences of that policy.
A pandemic becomes an excuse for treating people as playing pieces in a game.
A misleading statistic has made the rounds. But it’s based on a misreading of a government report that says no such thing.
Health care workers will now be allowed to use the Chinese-certified KN95 masks, which are equivalent to the N95 masks that are in short supply.
Trump's anti-China trade advisor, Peter Navarro, is now playing a major role in the White House's coronavirus response. What could go wrong?
It's almost like Americans are paying for them, and like Trump doesn't actually believe in free trade.
Robert Lighthizer, head of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, says tariffs aren't hurting America's response to the virus. He's also lifting those tariffs to help with the response.
