Trade correspondent L.C. reports: President Trump is moving to wrap up trade talks with Japan and China and to get Congressional ratification of the USMCA. The trade talks are moving toward possible conclusion by the end of the year, but the USMCA is running into opposition from trade unions and Democratic legislators in the House. […]
US trade policies hurting farmers, driving allies closer to China
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The Trump administration’s trade policies are facing serious threats worldwide. One of the president’s first acts in office was to exit the twelve-country Transpacific Partnership (TPP-12) negotiated by the previous administration. Japan, however, kept the free-trade-oriented pact alive minus the US, and now the American cows are coming home, literally (see […]
A Chinese-Russian “Heartland” leads a Dictators’ Internationale
Ghost of Halford John Mackinder, meet your modern followers, the Dictators’ Internationale: Springtime for Strongmen: The world’s authoritarians are on the march — and the West helped pave the way. The year 2018 was springtime for strongmen everywhere. It was the year Xi Jinping put an end to collective leadership in China, made himself president […]
US prevails over China in WTO farm subsidy case
Founders Broadsheet trade correspondent L.C. reports: The US has won a significant World Trade Organization (WTO) decision in a case filed against China for its “market price support” farm subsidies. The complaint was filed in 2016 by the Obama administration. The US alleged that about $100 billion in government subsidies to Chinese farmers exceeded China’s […]
Suspense over auto tariffs
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: Did the Commerce Department meet its February 17th deadline to deliver to the White House a report on whether automotive imports are a threat to national security? No one knows, and the White House isn’t saying. The secrecy is rankling. As the president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association said, […]
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