For years, mainstream politicians and economists have pooh-poohed America’s huge and growing trade deficits and tried to argue they don’t matter. In the first quarter of 2022, those commentators got a wake-up call from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. On April 28, the BEA issued a press release pointing out that U.S. gross domestic product…
The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission discussed the tight-linked China-India pharmaceutical supply chain, and tossed aside the notion that sweeping trade deals with India and the region are good ideas.
Janet Yellen tells The Atlantic Council that the U.S. needs more resilient supply chains. But judging by her speech, reshoring was not part of the solution.
The U.S. China Economic And Security Review Commission debated ways to better deal with China’s non-market economy in the WTO. Tariffs were part of the solution.
At a hearing by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, panelists agree that removing China from its Permanent Normal Trade Relations status with the U.S. is not (yet) in the cards.
Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State under President Trump, was the keynote speaker at CPA’s annual meeting on April 5, 2022. Here is what he told the gathering.
It sounded like the 1980s in Congress this week. Free trade and open markets were all the rage in a Senate Finance Committee hearing and a House Ways and Means Committee hearing with America’s top trade diplomat, Katherine Tai.
P&O Ferries is the largest operator of ferryboats between the British Isles and the European Continent, a $1.1 billion company carrying 10 million passengers a year. Two weeks ago, on March 24, P&O shocked its 800 employees by firing all of them. But it was less what it did than how it did it. On…