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12 Jan 2011, 7:48 am
It's no secret that the US Congress and many in the Obama administration have been somewhat obsessed with US-China trade over the last few years, and considering that China is a rising economic power and one of the United States' largest trading partners, a certain amount of US government attention is arguably warranted. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 6:08 am
One of this blog's most prominent themes is the identification and destruction of protectionist myths that, despite being totally and utterly fallacious, remain firmly planted in the American psyche due to constant manipulation repetition by lazy media and certain opportunistic politicians. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 6:27 am
With over 83 Senators approving of the big Obama-GOP tax compromise and (most) pundits on both sides of the aisle supporting the deal, it's easy to see that, despite liberal histrionics to the contrary, the measure is going to end up as law in the very near future. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 5:38 am
A lot of very interesting things have come across my (virtual) desk over the last few days, and many of them support the things I've been discussing here over the last few months. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 6:42 am
Question: When is a legislative provision imposing a tax on all Americans in order to financially benefit a single, politically-connected manufacturer in a Senator's backyard not an earmark? [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 9:32 am
Last week the World Trade Organization, in particular China's membership in the global trade body, came under scrutiny from the anti-trade left and, surprisingly, the (mostly) pro-trade right. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 6:56 am
Scott Lincicome thinks a change in the policy would be bad for U.S. manufacturing: the results of the currency protectionists' demands - a weaker dollar and a stronger RMB - would actually harm US manufacturing trade as global investment flees the United States for more stable fiscal ground. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 9:54 am
., Scott Lincicome, Gabriell [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 8:53 am
[Ed. note: This article was first published in The Federalist, which you really should be reading by now.]Americans currently pay high taxes on food, clothing, automobiles, industrial inputs and other goods and services, and their own United States Trade Representative is vigorously fighting other countries to keep it that way. [read post]
13 Nov 2010, 8:13 am
The US trade community, including your humble correspondent, was shocked to wake up this morning to the utterly insane and depressing news that President Obama and Korean President Lee Myung-bak have failed to reach a final agreement on the US-Korea FTA that would have cleared the way for the White House to send the agreement - completed and signed in 2007 - to congress for an up-or-down vote in 2011: After more than a week of negotiations to amend a Korea-U.S.… [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 6:15 am
Yesterday, the WTO's Appellate Body delivered a pretty significant smackdown on the United States in its dispute with China over the US imposition of anti-dumping (AD) duties and countervailing duties (CVDs) on Chinese imports. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 10:34 am
Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute (an industrial policy critic) narrowed the term to four core aspects:[8] a focus on manufacturing, to the exclusion of services and agriculture; targeted and directed microeconomic (firm or industry‐specific) support (e.g., tariffs or subsidies), as opposed to horizontal, sector‐wide, or economy‐wide policies (e.g., corporate tax rate reductions or patents); a government plan to fix market failures,… [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 9:07 am
I was really hoping to stay out of the whole "Donald Trump is Running for President" thing, because I truly believed (and pretty much still do) that (a) the spectacle was just a really good, and slightly depressing, publicity stunt for the reality TV star; and (b) anything I said would just give the guy another free commercial (albeit for an extremely limited market). [read post]
