Section 301 Tariffs On China, Part 4 Editor’s note: Part Four of a series on the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese products by CPA Buy American Committee co-chair James Stuber. Read part three here [James Stuber | August 28, 2019 | The American Dossier | Part four of a four-part series] In the previous…
Section 301 Tariffs On China, Part 3 Editor’s note: Part Three of a series on the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese products by CPA Buy American Committee co-chair James Stuber. Read part two here [James Stuber | August 22, 2019 | The American Dossier| Part three of a four-part series] Many commentators bemoan the higher…
Excerpt: Consumers are not seeing the prices increases that economists predicted. Inflation is extremely low — and remains unaffected by tariffs. Think all Americans are shouldering a big burden because of Trump’s key actions against China over trade cheating and more? [Michael Stumo | September 6, 2019 | LifeZette] Economists have a day of reckoning…
Section 301 Tariffs On China, Part 2 Editor’s note: Part Two of a series on the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese products by CPA Buy American Committee co-chair James Stuber. Read part one here [James Stuber | August 13, 2019 | The American Dossier| Part two of a four-part series] The forced technology transfers and…
Editor’s note: Industrial policy is needed in the pantheon of fiscal, tariff, exchange rate and monetary policies. The US needs to get good at it, with metrics. And use tariffs to neutralize waves of subsidized competition from determined foreign governments. Daily Caller News Foundation Editor’s note: This piece is part of American Renewal, a new policy…
Section 301 Tariffs on China, Part 1 Editor’s note: Part One of a series on the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese products by CPA Buy American Committee co-chair James Stuber. [James Stuber | August 6, 2019 | The American Dossier| Part one of a four-part series] After twenty-five years of giving American technology, capital, and…
Editors note: CPA member Roger Simmermaker explains how free traders wrongly focus on efficiency and low prices instead of production and employment. Exclusive: Roger Simmermaker warns of cost of ‘efficiency uber alles’ [Roger Simmermaker | September 8, 2019| WND] It is no secret that free traders worship free trade as a religion. Syndicated columnist and…
Editor’s note: WaPo would be called protectionist if taking about trade instead of journalism in this editorial. “For many years, U.S. policy was guided by the logic that it is best to remain open, to showcase a commitment to values and principle. But what if China doesn’t care and doesn’t change its approach?” CHINA’S LEADERS…
Editors note: This is a good move. Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to make permanent a bill requiring New York’s big infrastructure projects to use American-made steel and iron, he said Saturday. [Eileen AJ Connelly | September 7, 2019 | NY Post] The “New York Buy American Act,” which first took effect in April 2018 and…
Excerpt: “Fundamentally, we believe that China will do everything it can to continue to deceive the U.S., including the use of delaying tactics to continue stealing from the U.S. and in order to take considerable advantage of America’s free and open market.” There is a Chinese proverb that translates as: “It is always better to…