The U.S. Has Mismanaged China Policy for 20 Years. Time to Fix It. | Opinion
Millions of American factory workers were laid off as a result; still more lost work to intense import competition. They have been rewarded for their loss of reliable middle-class incomes…
HOFFA: 20 YEARS LATER, IT’S STILL CLEAR ALLOWING CHINA TO JOIN WTO WAS A MISTAKE
“We predicted then that Chinese accession to the WTO would undermine America’s manufacturing base as transnational corporate and investment elites moved production to China, and history has proved us right….
Melillo: Lumber dispute threatens jobs in NWO, Canada
A delegation of Canadian politicians is in Washington this week to fight back against the United States’ doubling of softwood lumber tariffs. “The ongoing softwood lumber dispute continues to threaten…
Biden Has Embraced Trump’s Protectionism – OpEd
The Biden administration’s decision this week to raise import duties on some Canadian lumber has US trade policy back in the headlines. Since taking office President Biden has moved to…
Yellen Says Supply-Chain Shift May Need Protectionist-Like Steps
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that U.S. reliance on foreign supply chains has proved a vulnerability and that the country needs to produce more critical goods domestically in order to…
COVID is teaching hard lessons on trade policy
The U.S. implemented the most measures of any country studied, relying primarily on subsidies. India and South Africa relied more heavily on trade constraints, like tariffs and quantitative restrictions, reflecting…
Why ‘Confrontation’ with China Cannot Be Avoided
The Biden administration has since updated this term to “strategic competition,” promising to prioritize the most strategic, or important, areas of competition. But competition is not the best word in…
U.S. hikes duty on Canadian softwood lumber to 17.9% — twice the old rate
The U.S. says Canadian lumber producers dump their product into the U.S. at a lower price than American lumber companies can because they are subsidized. So the U.S. puts a…
Every Step of the Global Supply Chain Is Going Wrong — All at Once
The time it takes for goods originating in Shanghai to reach their destinations through the San Pedro Bay ports has more than doubled to 62 days since January 2020, according…
The Strange Career of Paul Krugman
Krugman’s prestige and skill as a polemicist helped persuade elite media outlets, think tanks, government agencies, and business institutions that they could ignore the experts from varied backgrounds who were…