Colombia Tariff Ticker Department of Commerce’s Under Secretary for International Trade Chris Padilla stopped by the Conservative Blogger’s Briefing today to promote TradeAgreements.gov and all the resources there including the Colombia tariff tracker posted above. Padilla also brought along a grocery bag full of products to illustrate how American workers …
The New York Times reports today that at least 29 governments, including China, Norway, and South Korea, have drastically limited the amount of food their people can export. These protectionist measures have only worsened the global hunger crisis by driving up the price of food for poor nations. Heritage scholars …
Worried about a “rising tide of protectionist sentiment” the Partnership for New York City released a report on the benefits of direct foreign investment in New York City: The report estimated that businesses in the city that were controlled from abroad accounted for about $58 billion of the city’s total …
Great new video from reason.tv out today defending NAFTA by making the argument that the threat to American jobs from trade is no different than the threat from better technology. Host Drew Carey quips:”How are we supposed to compete against something that doesn’t get paid, doesn’t get health insurance, and …
The protectionist drift of the Democratic Party has free-market proponents across the pond worried. The Times of London writes: Mr Obama claims, for instance, that “entire cities…have been devastated” by Nafta, the North American Free Trade Agreement signed in 1993, which he blames for destroying a million American jobs, when …
The vast majority of economists agree that further reductions in trade barriers through the Doha Round of trade negotiations would spur economic growth around the world help lift millions of people out of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately it does not look like the current President will get much progress …
No wonder hard core opponents of free trade like Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) moved so quickly to push protectionist legislation after Barack Obama secured the Democratic nomination. They were worried that with need to pander to organized labor gone, Obama might start to acknowledge that the old bipartisan consensus that …
We know liberals in Congress no longer believe in free trade, but what about the world’s self described Marxists? If PoliticalAffairs.net, the destination for “Marxist thought online”, is any indication, Marxists are no fan of free trade and blame it for the world’s food crisis: For decades, neo-liberal trade liberalisation …
America’s allies have been expressing concern about the protectionist rhetoric coming from the liberal controlled Congress for some time now. The Detroit News reports that they are beginning to take preemptive action: The Canadian government — backed by American businesses including Detroit’s Big Three automakers — has launched a lobbying …
