Tag: tariffs
Why lifting tariffs during the COVID-19 crisis is bad for America’s...
Congress must leave the steel and aluminum tariffs in place and redouble efforts to find new uses for American products.
Tariff temper tantrum: Trump ‘created a fake crisis & has announced...
"Trump created a fake crisis and has announced a fake 'solution' that actually is terms that already the U.S. and Mexico had agreed months ago."
Trump’s Mexico tariffs are about white nationalism, not trade
There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law.
The misadventures of ‘tariff man’
For Donald Trump, tariffs are a substitute for diplomacy, just as harassment in his personal life is a substitute for normal human interaction.
The cost of Trump’s trade war (and a better alternative)
By imposing them, Trump has in effect raised taxes on most Americans by about $800 per household. China’s retaliatory tariffs will raise taxes further.
China tariffs are a regressive tax on Americans, and risk a...
The middle class and poor pay a larger percentage of their incomes on these tariffs than do the rich.
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
Trump’s trade tariffs, a ‘fool’s errand’ that won’t work and will...
Trump did not have to resort to tariffs. All he needed to do was make it very clear to Chinese leaders that there had to be significant changes made to the trade relationship...