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  • August 19, 2024
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    Americans Paid for the Trump Tariffs—and Would Do So Again
    Americans Paid for the Trump Tariffs—and Would Do So Again
    … it shouldn’t be. As the Tax Foundation’s Erica York wrote in an excellent essay for Cato’s Defending Globalization series, both economic theory and practice—as demonstrated in the interactive decision tree below—teach that unless foreign sellers …
    By Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
  • June 11, 2024
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    US Should Follow UK in Consumer-Conscious Approach to ‘Trade Remedies’
    US Should Follow UK in Consumer-Conscious Approach to ‘Trade Remedies’
    The US ‘trade remedy’ regime imposes high duties on imports without regard to how they might harm American consumers, the broader US economy, or other strategic national interests. A recent case in the UK shows just how important such a safety valve could be.
    By Clark Packard
  • May 31, 2024
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    Who Will Report on Tariffs' Unseen Costs?
    Who Will Report on Tariffs’ Unseen Costs?
    It praises the “seen” benefits of US apparel tariffs—the handful of American manufacturers whose products have “again become competitive in the global marketplace”—while totally ignoring their many “unseen” costs.
    By Scott Lincicome
  • April 26, 2024
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    No Sunset in Sight for Solar Protectionism?
    No Sunset in Sight for Solar Protectionism?
    Is President Joe Biden more interested in fighting climate change or in sheltering domestic industries from foreign competition? We will find out not too long from now.
    By James Bacchus
  • April 26, 2024
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    The World Trade Organization at Thirty
    The World Trade Organization at Thirty
    … of that, trade-distorting industrial policies are once again in vogue around the world. Last fall, Cato launched its Defending Globalization project, which aims to cut through the noise about globalization while at the same time making an affirmative case …
    By Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
  • March 29, 2024
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    More on Free Trade's "Pro-Poor Bias"
    More on Free Trade’s “Pro-Poor Bias”
    … proposed by Donald Trump—do? For more on the benefits of free trade and the costs of protectionism, be sure to check out Cato’s ongoing Defending Globalization project or this 2022 Cato paper from me and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon. 
    By Scott Lincicome
  • March 25, 2024
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    FTC Gets 2/3 of the Infant Formula Crisis Right
    FTC Gets 2/3 of the Infant Formula Crisis Right
    A report by the Federal Trade Commission identified most of the policy-related impediments that we identified as exacerbating the infant formula crisis of 2022. Notably absent from the report, however, is any mention of how highly restrictive U.S. trade policies also contributed.
    By Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
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