The U.S. must not sacrifice the chance to rebuild industrial capacity in exchange for another empty trade promise to import more American goods, as if these promises will actually materialize.
Importers continued to front-run the April ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs in March, sending the overall trade deficit up 14% over February numbers to $140.5 billion for the month, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Tuesday.
Democrats on the Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee—of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform—are united against tariffs.
Guardian Bikes, an American company out of Seymour, Indiana that sells direct-to-consumer, wants to ensure that it keeps manufacturing 100% of its bicycles right here in the U.S., and to do so, has received a $19 million loan from J.P. Morgan to help them.
The Department of Defense designated CATL as a “Chinese military company” under Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act on January 7. Their concern: CATL’s advanced lithium-ion batteries may one day be used to power China’s submarine fleet, replacing older battery models.
Imports did not vanish, but their growth rate was flat at zero percent in February compared to January after nearly two months of importers rushing in orders ahead of tariffs. February goods and services imports were $401 billion, a statistically insignificant change from January, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee gave U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer a piece of their mind on Wednesday during a four-and-a-half-hour hearing—double the time he spent with the Senate Finance Committee the day before.
Is China a peer competitor in the space race? On some fronts, the answer is yes. In others, the concern is that China is moving up the value chain so quickly that its companies may soon out-price American firms across the developing world.
The Trump administration is not backing down from its America First trade agenda, and Congress has granted the executive branch the authority to use emergency powers to impose tariffs in support of that agenda, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the Senate Finance Committee in a hearing on Tuesday.
Break out the Grizzly cooler and fire up the Broilmaster—it’s Liberation Day. In President Trump’s words, April 2 marks the end of the US of A being “ripped off by virtually every country in the world.”
