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Free Trade

Trump's 'National Security' Steel Tariffs Are Just Old Fashioned Protectionism. Here's the Data To Prove It.

The department has granted just 1 percent of the tariff exemption requests that were challenged by domestic steel producers.

Eric Boehm | 4.30.2020 1:40 PM

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Free Trade

Steel Company CEO Says Everyone Else Should Have To Pay for Trump's Tariffs, but Not Him

Robert Wetherbee says steel tariffs might force his business to shutter. But instead of asking for the tariffs to be lifted, he wants special treatment.

Eric Boehm | 1.8.2020 5:40 PM

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Free Trade

More Layoffs, Falling Stock Prices Show How Trump's Tariffs Have Harmed American Steelmakers

A Michigan steel plant annnounced it's closing at the end of the year, while U.S. Steel stocks are down 75 percent since Trump's tariffs were announced.

Eric Boehm | 9.24.2019 2:45 PM

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Free Trade

At Least 80 Workers Are Losing Their Jobs at This Pennsylvania Steel Plant. Tariffs Are To Blame.

Trump's steel protectionism seems to have failed. Again.

Eric Boehm | 7.12.2019 5:10 PM

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Free Trade

Two Solar Companies Said Tariffs Would Save Their Businesses. They Went Broke Anyway.

Who could have seen that coming? Well, lots of people did—but the U.S. International Trade Commission and President Trump didn't listen.

Eric Boehm | 6.20.2019 3:15 PM

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Free Trade

As U.S. Steel Slows Production, It's Time To Stop Pretending Tariffs Work

The biggest American steelmaker says there has been reduced demand for their products in recent months, probably because they raised prices after Trump slapped tariffs on foreign steel.

Eric Boehm | 6.19.2019 3:30 PM

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Tariffs

Trump's Tariffs Aren't Even Helping Steelmakers

Nucor's stock price is down 16 percent since August. Executives say the fourth quarter will be even worse.

Eric Boehm | 10.29.2018 2:45 PM

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Economics

Actually, Tariffs Do Matter

Veronique de Rugy | 9.19.2018 6:00 AM

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Tariffs

Protectionism vs. Cheap Beer

If you tax something, you get less of it, and Trump's tariffs are a tax on making things-including cans, kegs, and the beer that goes into them.

Eric Boehm | 5.29.2018 6:00 AM

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Free Trade

The Economic Case for Free Trade Is Stronger Than Ever

But working-class identity politics threaten to ruin everything.

Daniel W. Drezner | 4.30.2018 7:30 AM

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Free Trade

Shocker! American Steel Prices Spiked in April.

Hmm, I wonder why....

Eric Boehm | 4.25.2018 12:15 PM

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Tariffs

This American Metalworking Company Is Already Paying Up to 30 Percent More for Steel Thanks to Trump's Tariffs

"Those are traumatic increases. They are shocks to our system," says Mike Schmitt, CEO of The Metalworking Group, an Ohio-based manufacturer.

Eric Boehm | 3.30.2018 10:00 AM

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Tariffs

4 Bad Arguments for Trump's New Tariffs

When it comes to trade, the president believes a lot of nonsense.

Veronique de Rugy | 3.6.2018 1:00 PM

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Stossel: Trump's Steel Tariffs Will Hurt Americans

John Stossel says voluntary, free trade improves lives.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 3.6.2018 9:45 AM

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National Security

A Matter of Steel Industry Security

Steel imports are no more a threat to U.S. national security than imported sugar or lumber or tulips.

Daniel Griswold | 4.28.2017 1:00 AM

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