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Which Country Should Design U.S. Industrial Policy?

Michael Pettis | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | 07/16/2025

The decision Americans must make about industrial policy is whether policies that drive the nature and direction of the U.S. economy should be designed at home or abroad by its…

Powers of Attraction

Matt Turpin | China Articles | 07/13/2025

Will American Industrial Policy overcome the PRC’s weaponization of Rare Earth Magnet Production? F...

What’s Behind Trump’s Obsessive Tariff Policies?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev, MacKenna Rawlins, Melanie Sisson & John Allen Gay | Inkstick | 06/16/2025

Experts debate ...

Trade Under Blockade

Iain Murray, Kent Lassman & Ryan Young | Competitive Enterprise Institute | 05/27/2025

Introduction President Donald Trump threw the world tr...

Can Trump’s Reciprocal Trade Negotiations Make America Great Again?

Warren Maruyama, Meghan Anand & William Alan Reinsch | CSIS | 04/30/2025

On April 9, 2025, i...

The Economic Impact of Trump’s Tariffs on Europe: An Initial Assessment

Madalena Barata da Rocha, Nicolas Boivin & Niclas Poitiers | Bruegel | 04/17/2025

America First Trade Policy — The White House

The White House | 01/20/2025

January 20, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASU...

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