Showing posts with label Protectionist Campaigning for Dummies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protectionist Campaigning for Dummies. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2012

2012 GOP Platform on Trade: the Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly

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The Republican Party has released its 2012 Platform , and it's pretty much what you'd expect given the past few months of campaign a...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Breaking the Mercantilist Campaign Feedback Loop

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In a new post at his Foreign Policy blog, Dan Drezner argues that, sure, the protectionist rhetoric coming from both US presidential campai...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Playing with Protectionist Fire

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I've frequently cautioned against supposedly free-market Republicans toying with "I'm a free trader but [blank]" protecti...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Behold, the Utterly Dismal State of American Trade Politics

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One of this blog's most frequent refrains is the argument that free traders in the United States - particularly those in the political ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Sens. Brown, Schumer Wade Into US-China Solar Panels Fight, Reveal Stunning Ignorance of (or Disdain for) Global Trade Rules

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Tomorrow, the US Department of Commerce is expected to announce preliminary anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels in the latest chapt...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Perfect: US TPP Negotiating Positions Getting Bogged Down by a Product We Don't Even Make Anymore

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I've expressed more than a little skepticism about the Obama administration's ambitious plan to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnersh...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

And Now for a Much-Needed Dose of US-China Trade Optimism

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After today's lopsided vote on whether to maintain the United States' antagonistic countervailing duty policy against China and oth...

Your Official Guide to the Real Free Traders in Congress

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I know that Cato has an  indispensable scorecard on the free traders in Congress, but that usually isn't released until several months ...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Congratulations Chinese Sleeping Bag Exporters!

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While most of us were enjoying the holidays, the Obama administration quietly announced its intention to raise import taxes on sleeping bags...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

China-bashing:Good Politics, Bad Consequences

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The Wall Street Journal's Bob Davis explains in must-read column what some of us have known for a while now: poll-driven attacks on Chi...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Senators Blindly Promising to "Get Tough" on China's Currency

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The US Senate is poised to take up the issue of China's currency policies, and nothing - certainly not some measly little facts that tot...
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