The U.S. Department of Commerce roughly doubled the countervailing duty (CVD) rates against Mexican sugar exporters in a final determination on Thursday (Sept. 17), in what respondent lawyers saw as a veiled warning to Mexico not to do anything that would give the department cause to terminate existing suspension agreements. The antidumping (AD) rates on…

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) just released the most exceptionally misguided statement on trade that I’ve seen. They attack Trump for being against losing jobs and industries to China and Japan because AEI actually favors trade deficits! AEI’s headline is “Donald Trump flunks ECON 101 when it comes to international trade“.  The truth is that…