When Regulation Becomes a Trade War
The latest threat from Donald Trump to impose additional tariffs on European goods marks a significant escalation in the transformation of trade policy into an...
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Tariffs Are No Longer About China
The latest increase in US tariffs on Chinese imports appears, at first sight, almost anticlimactic. The Trump administration has raised the effective tariff on Chinese...
Sanctions Meet Sovereignty: China Calls Washington’s Bluff
There are moments when the theatre of economic power gives way to something far more revealing: a test of credibility. This is one of them....
China Thinks in Decades, America Barely in Tweets: The Great Miscalculation of Trump’s Trade Tactics
According to a senior adviser to Beijing’s Foreign Ministry, President Donald Trump’s administration, ever the champion of instant gratification, appears to have spectacularly misjudged China’s...
Trump’s Tariff Tonic: The Cure Worse Than the Disease?
President Donald Trump’s latest whirlwind of tariffs has been shaking Washington and Wall Street for nearly a month, and now, it seems Main Street is...
Trump’s Tariff Tsunami: History Repeating, with a Bullhorn
President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs are now officially in place—ushering in the highest practical import duties in over a century and delivering a thumping blow...
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’: The Return of Economic Imperialism in Full Swing
President Donald Trump has escalated his economic warfare, signing a proclamation imposing a 25% tariff on imported automobiles. The move is the latest salvo in...
Trump’s Economic Gamble: Tariffs, Debt, and a Dose of Wishful Thinking
President Donald Trump has finally set his grand economic experiment in motion, imposing sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China while reassuring the American public...
Trump’s Trade War Escalation: A Policy for Disaster
President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to hammer Canada and Mexico with hefty import tariffs while doubling down on China, effectively dragging...