rejectfreeadmin Hundreds of US manufacturers have jointly signed a petition to President Trump reiterating their support for Section 301 tariffs on subsidized imports from China. In a letter to the president, sent ahead of a planned December 15 tariff increase, more than 260 domestic manufacturers expressed their “sincerest appreciation” for the tariffs in response to China’s repeated … Read More
Make no mistake, we demanded a trade deal that benefits workers and fought every single day to negotiate that deal; and now we have secured an agreement that working people can proudly support. Read the article
The U.S. Beef Integrity Act (Act) is a voluntary measure that would reserve the U.S. label only for meat that is exclusively born, raised, and slaughtered in the United States. The letter explains that the Act’s attempt to correct just the one isolated problem in which foreign beef can be mislabeled as a “Product of … Read More
U.S. consumers who haven’t been buying American products and have been getting their Scotch whiskey, cheese, wine, coffee, olives, and cashmere sweaters from Europe will pay more for the privilege of supporting foreign producers who pay no taxes to America. The Trump administration, on October 18, imposed 25 percent tariffs on several European imports following … Read More
Economist Peter Morici explaining why the U.S. is winning the trade war and why China is losing…yes, finally an economist that has put pulled his head out of the economic textbook (which is full of theories of how free trade is best) and put it in the real world to see what is actually happening! … Read More
Anyone doubting that tariffs work for the benefit of the U.S. needs to read this article. This should remove all doubt. Read the article
A Chinese national who worked for Monsanto before it was purchased by Bayer AG was charged in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with stealing trade secrets for China, the U.S. Justice Department said. Read the article
China plans to add new coal power plants equivalent to all of the EU’s current generating capacity, putting the world’s biggest emitter out of sync with its commitments to combat climate change, researchers said Wednesday. China built enough new plants between January 2018 and June 2019 — nearly 43 gigawatts worth of capacity — to … Read More
Jack Ma: “For so many years China and the U.S. have been working together. There’s a problem. That’s very natural. If there’s no problem, that’s not natural.” Watch the video
And here you have the logic of free traders: “The goal of manufacturing is not to create jobs, it is to create things that people value. In an ideal world, all that value would be created without anyone having to lift a finger.” Read the article
