PROFESSOR, PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TEAM MEMBER
Dr. Greg Autry is an entrepreneur, writer, and educator. He has researches and writes on business, economics, trade policy and space policy.
Greg is the co-author, with Peter Navarro, of the book Death by China and is also a producer of the Death by China film directed by Navarro and narrated by Martin Sheen. Greg holds a Ph.D in Management (concentration in Economics and Public Policy) and an MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.
Dr. Autry served on the Presidential Transition team at NASA and has testified to the U.S. Congress and presented at the Canadian Parliament. He is a frequent speaker at space technology and investment conferences and has also spoken at the Heritage Foundation, the California Democratic Convention, the National Association of Business Economists, the National Press Club.
Travels from: Southern California / Los Angeles
Lawmakers from member states of the European Union agreed to measures last week to stop drug shortages and fix chronic Asian dependencies for critical medicines, this time spurred by worries over the antibiotics supply chain.
A Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing held last week had only one manufacturer serving as a witness. He liked the tariffs because they stopped the bloodletting of cheaper imitations from China. However, he told the Senate that changes could be made to existing tariff policy to help lower costs as commodity and other input prices are rising fast.
The clock is ticking on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. On July 1, 2026, the three parties are scheduled to sit down for the formal “joint review” required by the deal itself. Under the terms USMCA’s drafters wrote into the agreement, the entire arrangement automatically expires on July 1, 2036 unless every government affirmatively recommits to it.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce usually takes a white-glove approach to criticising their members’ businesses in China. But in a recent study, conducted for the Chamber by the Rhodium Group, there is a marked change of tune.
