The president plans to nominate attorney Gilbert Kaplan to serve as under secretary of Commerce for international trade. April 11th, 2017 [Inside US Trade] Inside U.S. Trade reported in February that Kaplan would be the pick for the job provided Wilbur Ross was confirmed as Commerce secretary. Kaplan is a partner at the law firm King &…
Last week’s U.S.-China summit turned out to be as close to a nothing-burger as any meeting between the leaders of the world’s two most important countries could possibly be. But at least one useful purpose was served by the understandably suspenseful run-up to this eagerly anticipated first direct encounter between President Trump and the human…
Import dumping is a huge trade issue that impacts our economy — and our national security. One of the tidbits that emerged following President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting at Mar-a-Lago last week is that the president is considering issuing an executive order to target unfair import dumping from foreign companies. While the details are…
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) ripped into President Trump for failing to wring meaningful concessions and concrete commitments out of Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting last week, claiming Trump left the “golden opportunity” meeting “empty handed.” [Jack Caporal] April 11th, 2017 [Inside US Trade] Trump came away from the April 6-7 rendezvous…
President declined to give specifics about changes to trade pact; he also said he wants to overhaul government’s computers WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump promised “some very pleasant surprises” to come on the North American Free Trade Agreement, in a gathering with U.S. chief executives in which he also said he wants to overhaul the federal government’s…
NPR had a somewhat confused piece on the trade deficit this morning that was headlined “Economists Say Trump Seems To Misunderstand Significance Of Trade Deficit.” The piece basically tells listeners that Trump is mistaken for claiming the trade deficit is a problem. April 6th, 2017 [Center for Economic and Policy Research] To make this point, the piece…
Berlin (AFP) – The chiefs of the IMF, WTO and OECD vowed Monday in a joint statement to defend free trade against creeping protectionist trends, amid growing global alarm over US President Donald Trump’s “America First” call. [AFP] April 10th, 2017 [Breitbart] “Disappointing trade growth figures and the danger of increasing protectionist tendencies give us…
Washington~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) announced today that effective April 11th, 2017, Mr. Daniel DiMicco will serve as Chairman. DiMicco, former CEO of Nucor Corp, America’s largest steel company, was a member of President Obama’s Manufacturing Council and most recently headed then President-elect Trump’s trade transition team. “I am proud to have been appointed Chairman…
By Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA Last Friday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that the US and China have agreed to establish a 100 day plan on trade. The big news is that both the President of the United States and the President of China agree that trade imbalances are a big problem. But will…
WUHAN, China — Russell Abney raised two children on solar power. The 49-year-old Georgia Tech graduate worked for the last decade in Perrysburg, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo, pulling a good salary as an equipment engineer for the largest American solar-panel maker. [KEITH BRADSHER] April 8th, 2017 [The New York Times] On the other side of…
