Showing posts with label International Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International Trade. Show all posts
Monday, July 27, 2026

The Steep Costs of Trump Expanding Tariff Power Under Section 301

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Section 301 wasn't supposed to be a presidential blank check. Yet that's increasingly how it has been used.  The latest lawsuit  cha...
Monday, March 16, 2026

The Trump Administration's Latest Protectionist Trick: Call All Foreign Trade "Unfair"

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Modern prosperity relies heavily on international trade. No one single country, even one as resource-rich as the United States, produces eve...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Is the Reign of the U.S. Dollar Coming to an End?: Assessing the Future of Global Reserves

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Tariffs notwithstanding, the United States has fiscally been in such a tumult in recent years. Last month, the credit rating agency Moody...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Trump's Non-Reciprocal "Reciprocal" Tariffs Are Chasing a Nonexistent "Trade Deficit" Boogeyman

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Last week on April 2, what Trump dubbed "Liberation Day," Trump declared that "April 2nd, 2025, will be forever be remembered...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Trump's Auto Tariffs Won't Help U.S. Manufacturing, But They'll Make Cars Much More Expensive

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Trump is driving the American people crazy (myself included!) with his trade war, pun intended. Last week, Trump announced that he is imposi...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Trump Cannot Fight Trade Deficits with Higher Tariffs, Nor Does He Need To

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Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has been more gung-ho on tariffs than he was during his first term. Not only did Trump threate...
Monday, January 6, 2025

Biden Blocking Nippon's Acquisition of U.S. Steel Undermined National Security Instead of Improving It

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In December 2023, Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel offered to buy U.S. steelmaker U.S. Steel at a 40 percent premium on its stock price.  Ni...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Trump's Tariff Plan Would Harm Small Businesses and the Voters He Claims to Want to Help

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Like any other presidential candidate, Donald Trump is trying to pander to as many people as he can so he can win the presidential election....
Monday, September 2, 2024

Why Free Trade Is Good for National Security

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One of the aspects that has made the United States a prosperous nation was its embrace of freer trade. In spite of becoming an economic powe...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

France Was Already Struggling with Government Spending. The Uncertainty with Macron's Snap Elections Did Not Help.

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With French President Emmanuel Macron losing his grip on political power, he decided to disband the French Parliament and call for a snap el...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Latest China Tariffs Show That Biden Can Be as Protectionist as Trump

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Before becoming President, Joe Biden criticized President Trump's tariffs on China. He said that "we're going after China the...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Reflecting on the Moral Case for Globalization

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For President Donald Trump, it is about "Make America Great Again." French politician Marine Le-Pen believes that there is not a ...
Monday, April 22, 2024

Biden Should Keep His Protectionist Nose Out of Nippon Steel's Acquisition of U.S. Steel

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In December 2023, U.S. Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) announced that Nippon Steel was going to acquire U.S. Steel. Nippon Steel (Nippon) is...
Monday, April 1, 2024

How Free Trade and Trade Liberalization Help Out the Poor Domestically and Globally

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Last month, the White House released its annual Economic Report of the President . In the report, there was a chapter on International Trade...