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How Trump’s Tariffs Really Affected the U.S. Job Market

Michael Pettis | Carnegie Endowment | 01/28/2021

A recent study on U.S.-China trade concludes that Trump’s trade policies cost the U.S. economy nearly a quarter million jobs. But its obsolete understanding of trade flows ends up pointing…

Trump-Biden Buy American Policies: Costly for Taxpayers

Bryan Riley | National Taxpayers Union Foundation | 01/26/2021

After President Trump made issuing a Buy Am...

Biden’s trade policy needs effective commercial diplomacy

Earl Anthony Wayne & Shaun Donnelly | The Hill | 01/15/2021

The incoming Biden administration has...

Trade Policy and Race/Ethnicity

Simon Lester | International Economic Law and Policy Blog | 01/12/2021

There was some Twitter discussion last week of a new paper ...

Biden Administration Could Benefit from Keeping an Indo-Pacific Focus

Derek Grossman | RAND Corporation | 11/30/2020

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden may be poised ...

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