Airbus is the greatest success of industrial policy in modern history. It is the world’s most successful commercial airplane manufacturer, with a global workforce of 121,000 people around the world.
The next president should use every tool to rebuild America’s productivity, industrial base and middle class. And they should ignore the conventional economic textbook view that predicts calamity if those tools are used, especially because these predictions never come true.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai took to the Financial Times this week to re-state her position, and President Biden’s, that from now on, global trade has to benefit the common good.
Shein’s troubling record of misrepresentations, human rights abuses, and several other concerns should properly exclude the company from being listed on any U.S. exchanges.
When drugs are pulled from pharmacy shelves, it’s somewhat of a well-kept secret that it is the pharmaceutical company that voluntarily warns buyers of the potential harm from the defect.
The U.S. Senate Finance Subcommittee for International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness took a one-sided view on the de minimis exemption in a hearing on Tuesday, rejecting anything but technocratic changes to the global duty-free rule for small packages priced under $800.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was in Europe this week on a charm offensive from Washington, trying to convince leaders there to join forces in going after China on trade.
A new trade policy isn’t just emerging; it’s emerged. Six years after former President Donald Trump and his chief trade diplomat Robert Lighthizer imposed tariffs on nearly $400 billion worth of imported goods from China, President Biden has done the same.
We welcome the recent action by DHS to place 26 more Chinese textile companies on the UFLPA Entity List. However, more needs to be done to ensure that Chinese forced labor imports are not skirting the enforcement of U.S. law.