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

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

Another example showing other countries do not always retaliate when import tariffs are applied: “The European Union signaled it wouldn’t immediately retaliate against new U.S. tariffs, seeking to avoid a broader trade war as Washington  moves to punish the bloc over Airbus subsidies the World Trade Organization ruled illegal.” Read the article

  There are now plenty of people in this country who want to buy American and NOT Chinese. It doesn’t matter whether the Chinese are making the product here or not, our president has gotten the country turned against China after years of China pretty much abusing us across the board, especially with bogus joint … Read More

The Founding Fathers read all about free trade, Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”, and wanted no part of it. They rejected free trade. Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage (1817) didn’t lead us into a no-tariff economy either. The Founders knew what was best for our nation, and it didn’t include free trade. Read the article