ITC: Structural steel imports may be harming U.S. producers

Excerpt: If Commerce finds that structural steel imports are materially injuring or threatening material injury to domestic producers, preliminary duties will be imposed on imports. [March 20, 2019 | Inside U.S. Trade] Imports of fabricated structural steel from Canada, Mexico and China could be harming domestic producers, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in a preliminary…

Are Tariffs Reducing the National Debt and Federal Deficit?

There is increasing evidence that Trump’s tariffs are working to expand American manufacturing and create jobs. [Michele Nash- Hoff | March 6, 2019 | savingmanufacturing.com According to the February 11, 2019 U.S. Manufacturing Technology Order Report press release of The Association for Manufacturing Technology, “The year- end order total for 2018 was $5.5 billion, up 19 percent from…

Press Mention: A different kind of farm organization

Excerpt: “The laissez-faire, free-trade approach just burned up our countryside,”  BELLEVUE, Wash. — Farmers at the 117th anniversary convention of the National Farmers Union this week had the same worry as the ones who attended the organization’s first gathering more than a century ago — low incomes. [Don Jenkins | March 7, 2019 | CapitalPress.com]The 460…

Opening Statement of USTR Robert Lighthizer to the House Ways and Means Committee

Editor’s note: Interesting that Trade Ambassador Lighthizer quotes Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to China joining the WTO in this statement.  AMBASSADOR LIGHTHIZER: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Brady, distinguished members of the Committee: it is a pleasure to be here today and to discuss this very important issue. [February 27, 2019 | United States Trade Representative] I think…

Trump, Trade, and Tariffs

Brian Duncan, Vice President of the Illinois Farm Bureau, Zach Mottl, Chief Alignment Officer of Atlas Tool Works, and Peter Roskam, former U.S. Congressman and current IOP Pritzker Fellow, had a panel discussion on the short – and long-term dynamics of the Trump administration’s trade policies, particularly as they affect Illinois. They discussed the current…