UNCONSTITUTIONAL


Our Founding Fathers Rejected
FREE TRADE And So Should We


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US lawmakers ramp up trade heat on China over auto-parts tariffs

Republican lawmakers accused a Chinese auto-parts maker of a “blatant” effort to evade US tariffs in the latest sign of rising pressure in Washington to limit China’s growing presence in the car business. Calling the alleged violations a threat to national security, the legislators demanded Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas investigate Qingdao Sunsong … Read More

Cassidy, Colleagues Introduce Bills to Protect Louisiana Agriculture Against Dumping from China, India

The India Shrimp Tariff Act raises U.S. tariffs to be equivalent to subsidies received by the Indian shrimp farming industry. India is the world’s top shrimp exporter, accounting for roughly 40 percent of U.S. shrimp imports, largely due to massive state subsidies. “We wholeheartedly support Senator Cassidy’s effort to deploy import tariffs on Indian shrimp … Read More

Former Senator Phil Gramm Is Wrong On U.S. Trade Policy

Former Senator Phil Gramm’s recent WSJ opinion article “Trump’s Trade Was Was a Loser” gets many things wrong about U.S. trade policy. Concerningly, Mr. Gramm makes numerous statements, representations, and conclusions without supporting facts and documentation. His views are nevertheless flawed and dangerously misleading. As such, it is necessary to examine the facts and historical … Read More

Protecting the Chief Business of the American People

Conversations about “trade” must encompass the national interest, broadly drawn, rather than a narrow set of economic parameters. Like “the business of America is business,” free traderism is a model, an ideological statement of how the world ought to be—“business” or “trade” abstracted from specifics or political context. It cannot guarantee that improvements in one … Read More

Self-reliant India should not be mistaken as ‘economic protectionism’

Emphasising that a self-reliant India should not be mistaken as “economic protectionism,” external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said India is open to collaborations but on its terms, on its strategic pathways. “That is one of the differences today in India. We speak today of a self-reliant India.” Read the article.

How Trump and Biden killed the free-trade consensus

While the bigger companies were profiting off cheap Chinese assembly lines and access to the Chinese market, smaller and midsized manufacturers were getting creamed by competition with the country’s cheap imports. “The reality [is] that the consumer who enjoys the low prices of imported goods is also a worker who must withstand the downward pressures … Read More

Beijing Has Been De-Risking ‘For Decades,’ Trade Body Chief Says As China-EU Relations Stand At ‘Crossroads’

The EU has been focused on de-risking itself from China. However, facts and figures show China has already been de-risking “for decades,” the EU chamber head says. Beijing has developed multiple de-risking plans in recent years such as the Made in China 2025 plan, the dual circulation model and the government’s self-reliance strategies. Read the … Read More

Macron Is Pushing Europe Into $900 Billion Fight With China

Officials speaking on condition of anonymity recalled the solar industry debacle a decade ago, when cheap imports from China gutted European production. One of the officials said Europe’s auto industry could potentially be vulnerable in the same way and so the EU faces a binary choice: Either it affirms its power or submits to China. … Read More