[December 13, 2016 |Platts] The 15th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization came and went on Sunday without any change in how the US will treat the country under antidumping duty laws — to the relief of the US steel industry. “No decision was made by the US government today or yesterday. We have…
[Megan Cassella | December 14, 2016 |Politico] President-elect Donald Trump may be inching closer to a decision on who to tap for U.S. trade representative after Wayne Berman, a senior executive with the Blackstone Group, stopped by Trump Tower this week for an unannounced meeting, a source familiar with the transition told POLITICO. Berman and…
[ Claudia Tenney | December 12, 2016 |CNN] (CNN)By selecting Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as US Ambassador to China, President-elect Donald Trump chose a man who Chinese President Xi Jinping considers a “friend.” But as a friend, Branstad will be the messenger to deliver the hard truth that the days of America bowing and scraping at China’s…
Working-class voters made clear that stupid trade policies like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization made them poorer, not richer,” Michael Stumo, the CEO of Coalition for a Prosperous America, told Business Insider. “Mr. Tillerson is a bright man with admirable management and deal-making skills which he used to support…
[ Allan Smith| December 14, 2016 |Business Insider] President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state — Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson — once praised the trade agreement Trump lambasted along the campaign trail as a “promising development” regarding trade relations in the Asia-Pacific region. In a 2013 speech to the Asia Society Global Forum, Tillerson,…
[ Pam Key | December 09, 2016 |Breitbart] Friday at a rally for Louisiana Senate candidate Republican John Kennedy in Baton Rouge, President-elect Donald Trump restated his proposal to impose a “substantial tariff or tax,” on the imports of companies that move production out of the United States. Trump said, “We don’t want companies to leave our…
[ Peter Morici | December 09, 2016 |Deseret News] Donald Trump faces immediate challenges — managing the war against ISIS, fixing Obamacare and boosting growth to create jobs. However, as the fallout from his recent conversation with the president of Taiwan indicates, an increasingly assertive China poses the most vexing and far-reaching challenges for American prosperity and security. China…