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Policymakers must be constantly reminded of the benefits of free trade and the costs of protectionism. Free trade is the extension of free markets across political borders. Enlarging markets to integrate more buyers, sellers, investors, and workers enables more refined specialization and economies of scales, which produce more wealth and higher living standards. Protectionism does just the opposite. Congress and the administration should pursue policies that expand the freedom of Americans to participate in the international marketplace.

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  • February 12, 2018
    Forbes.com
    Has Trump Evolved on Trade?
    Is he beginning to recognize that his protectionist impulses are economically and politically constrained?
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • January 31, 2018
    Forbes.com
    A Questionable Trade Policy Narrative Deserves Meaningful Debate
    Putting Trump at the center of everything that is aggressive or contentious about U.S. trade policy may feed a narrative the media grasps and embraces (and Trump likely welcomes), but it obscures the real source of the problems.
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • January 10, 2018
    Forbes.com
    Ask Huawei about The “Coming” U.S.-China Trade War
    Rather than attempt to resolve issues by bringing complaints to the World Trade Organization, the United States chose to impose de facto bans on Chinese technology firms and to make it more difficult for Chinese companies to acquire U.S. technology.
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • January 2, 2018
    Albany Times-Union
    Buy American Saps New York’s Vitality, Strains Economy
    Sold as a tonic to promote economic strength, New York’s new Buy American law is instead sure to sap the state’s vitality through a witch’s brew of higher taxes, worsened infrastructure, and increased budget strain.
    By Colin Grabow
  • December 15, 2017
    U.S. News & World Report (Online)
    A Giant Puffing Sound
    There are a number of areas in which NAFTA rules may have an impact on the marijuana marketplace as legalization progresses.
    By Simon Lester
  • December 12, 2017
    China-US Focus
    An Aluminum Lining in a Darkening U.S.-China Trade Cloud
    Rather than lament the self-initiated antidumping and countervailing duty cases against Chinese aluminum, better to note that they could provide an escape route from a far more precarious showdown over national security and trade.
    By Daniel J. Ikenson
  • November 30, 2017
    National Review (Online)
    The Many Myths of Reaganite Protectionism
    Trumpist efforts to save U.S. jobs through higher tariffs, bilateral trade deals, and lower trade deficits can find no “conservative” justification in Reagan-era trade actions.
    By Colin Grabow and Scott Lincicome
  • November 4, 2017
    Richmond Times-Dispatch
    Trump’s Trade Policy: New Deals or No Deals?
    The reality may be that these deals are never coming. It is not clear that the Trump administration has a vision of trade agreements that works.
    By Simon Lester
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