[Daily News| November 18, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Just over week after the election of Donald Trump effectively eliminated the chances for a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership this year, Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee said they see a path forward in working with the president-elect on trade policy — including the possibility…
[Daily News| November 16, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Senate Finance Committee member Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is calling for President-elect Trump to conduct a sweeping review of the United States’ trade relationship with China, pick a U.S. Trade Representative with a background in manufacturing, ditch the Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiate NAFTA. “Donald Trump made a lot…
[Edward Wong| November 17, 2016 |The New York Times] Congress should exercise greater scrutiny over trade and investment practices between the United States and China in order to prevent China from taking advantage of the economic relationship, a congressional commission said in a report released on Wednesday. In its long list of recommendations, the commission advised Congress…
[Michelle Kim| November 11, 2016 |Market Watch] WASHINGTON — The United States should bar Chinese state-owned enterprises from acquiring U.S. companies – takeovers that give China an unfair advantage in trade relations, according to a report released Wednesday by a congressional advisory panel. While Chinese companies face less restricted access in the U.S., China has…
[NICOLE GELINAS| November 11, 2016 |The Daily Beast] Donald Trump could not have won the presidency in 2016 were it not for what happened eight years before: the global financial meltdown. To this day, political elites do not grasp how the crisis shattered Americans’ perceptions of their economic security. This top-level failure has gradually claimed…
By Michael Stumo On Tuesday, November 8, in the evening, there was an earthquake. In the course of a few hours late that day, the expectations of most (but not all) flipped from an obvious Clinton victory to a massive and widespread Trump victory. Trade issues and the working class were the deciding factors. I’m…
By Michael Stumo Building upon, and solidifying, our bipartisan gains on trade is crucial right now. The TPP is dead. Trump and the House Democrats agree on a surprisingly long list of trade issues. The working class voters decided the election, in large part on the trade issue, and Trump won. Dems are reeling from…
[DANIEL LOOKER| November 09, 2016 |Agriculture] For the past eight years, many farmers have chafed under what’s seen as regulatory overreach under the Obama Administration. Farm groups and Trump supporters expect that to be pulled back after the New York real estate mogul and reality TV star was elected the 45th U.S. president on November…
[Peter Morici | November 12, 2016 |New York Post] To win the presidency, Donald Trump promised to cut taxes, boost energy production, roll back excessive business regulations and much more, but nothing would deliver more punch for growth and jobs than his promise to fix America’s broken trade policy. The economic reasoning behind free trade…
[Kevin Kearns | November 11, 2016 |PoliZette] When Donald Trump embarks on his new trade agenda in January, he will face sustained resistance from those who opposed his primary and presidential campaigns — i.e., those whose views working Americans repudiated in the recent election. Essentially, Trump’s agenda has been criticized from the moment the Establishment realized…
