The Wall Street Journal has started 2024 bemoaning tariffs. They are for losers, the WSJ Inside View columnist Andy Kessler wrote in December, ending 2023 with a taste of what is expected to come this year, an election year.
Washing machine tariffs were a success, as measured by over 2,000 new jobs, more competition, no sustained effect on washing machine prices and economic stimulus with the construction of new factories.
The world’s fourth largest steel producer – Nippon Steel of Japan – made an offer to buy the third largest steelmaker in the U.S., U.S. Steel Corporation, in an all cash purchase priced at $55 a share in December, nearly double the company’s share price from early August.
The U.S. trade deficit fell by 2% in November over the previous month, with both exports and imports relatively flat ahead of the holiday season.
Supply chains are still in the hands of Chinese companies but have been “rejiggered” to Vietnam and elsewhere.
A CPA rebuttal to a WSJ Editorial Team op-ed on Jan. 2 bemoaning China tariffs by both Biden and Trump.
Akin to granting PNTR to China in 2000 WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) called on the Biden administration to reject misguided
After roughly two years of back and forth on opening more markets to free trade between the U.S. and U.K., both sides have given up. Why that’s a good thing.
The multinational business community claims that revoking China MFN would be bad for the
U.S. economy. They are wrong.
by MICHAEL STUMO For the first time, the United States has become dependent on other countries for food. Even though U.S. farms continue to produce
