But speech by US Trade Representative Tai highlights shift by Biden administration to green energy focus over traditional US policy seeking expanded world trade role. The April 12-18, 2021 roundup of major trade developments, with L.C. Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was in Washington to meet with President Joe Biden on April 16th. This is […]
Bipartisan agreement on batteries, China, but OECD battle ahead
Also: US Court of International Trade (CIT) rules against tariffs on downstream steel and aluminum products, a rare court win against the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs The April 5-11, 2021 roundup of major trade developments, with L.C. The Biden administration has launched an effort to get the international tax talks hosted by the OECD […]
Will China’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy over its Uyghur policy backfire?
The March 22-28, 2021 roundup of major trade developments, with L.C. China’s confrontation with the US and its allies intensified this week, moving in a direction that may be difficult to steer away from. This week’s events followed and built upon last week’s tense US-China foreign ministers meeting in Alaska. The issue now in the […]
Trade opportunities thwarted by bipartisan protectionism
• Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads agree to merge, forming “first USMCA railroad network”; • HUGE proposal for Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador would provide home country jobs, relieve US border crisis; • US farmers taking big export hit from US dropping out of Trans-Pacific Partnership; • US Trade Representative Katherine Tai is […]
ARPA: corrupting the electorate with free money
by Richard Schulman Good parents try to raise their children from a state of dependency into independent adults. Bad governments, by contrast, seek to turn adults back into dependent children. Dependent on government, that is. The left has a euphemism for this desired state of dependency: the universal welfare state. Republicans are describing the recently […]
