Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The White House has drafted a “US Reciprocal Trade Act” that would give the president authority to impose tariffs unilaterally on specific products and countries. The president wants to promote it in his January 29th State of the Union address and would like it to be introduced in Congress before then. […]
Could we have a Wall-DACA compromise, please?
Our comments will be brief, since just about everything that is to be said about ending the government shutdown and securing the US southern border already has been said, in print and on tv. There’s a growing consensus in the Republican party (Newt Gingrich, the National Review, Lindsay Graham, Peggy Noonan) and perhaps beyond) that […]
Worsening US trade outlook for 2019
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: Congress and the Administration must get the partial government shutdown resolved if progress is to be made on pressing trade matters. The year 2018 not only brought the biggest yearly drop for US stocks since the 2008 financial crisis. The US global trade deficit also widened, as did the US trade […]
2018 in trade: China on defensive; TPP-11 underway
The year 2018 is ending with the Trump administration having usefully set China’s hostile trade policy back on its heels but only at considerable cost to US exports – a cost that could been avoided by concerting the anti-China measures with its EU and Japanese allies from the beginning. It is also the 20th anniversary […]
Global warming lobby ends year in defeat
The year 2018 has not been a happy one for the global warming lobby. President Trump took the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, but it is the US that has reduced its CO2 emissions, not the posturing signees of the Accord. Meanwhile the Trump administration has opened millions of acres of public lands […]
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