These 107 free trade Republicans sent a letter to President Trump opposing his steel and aluminum tariffs. https://reichertforms.house.gov/uploadedfiles/233_letter_to_potus.pdf
(March 9, 2018) — The recent tariffs on steel and aluminum have been characterized as trade war. This is weird, because countries often enforce trade rules with targeted tariffs and sanctions, and markets adjust. What’s the real issue? [Stan Sorscher | March 9, 2018 | The Stand] In the orthodoxy of free trade, tariffs are…
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says tariffs will be good for the American steel industry—just as they were for Mr. Ross himself during his business career. [Ted Mann, Bob Tita and Maureen Farrell | March 8, 2018 | WSJ] Profiting from such protectionist measures was a trademark of some of the biggest deals in Mr. Ross’s rise as an investor specializing…
WASHINGTON—For Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump’s trade guru, it’s been quite a turnaround. [Bob Davis | March 8, 2018 | WSJ] Last spring, he was running the White House’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, an impressive-sounding group that consisted of himself and an aide in a single room in a building across the alley…
