Simon Lester

No, that's not a quote from a U.S. Senator, but from a member of the People's Bank of China's monetary policy committee.  Here's more from a Bloomberg article: China's yuan rose beyond 7.4 to the dollar for the

I don't have a link for this because it came in an email (from AEI): America ’s farmers are highly productive, as Thursday’s Thanksgiving meal demonstrates. The Census Bureau reports that U.S. farmers this year will raise 272 million turkeys and produce 690 million pounds of

Most of the talk about carbon border taxes involves imposing taxes/charges in a manner that might discriminate against China and other developing countries.  But could China impose a border tax of its own?  They might not be there quite yet, but they seem to be thinking about these kinds

As noted in an earlier post, I don't know if this issue is building up momentum, but I seem to be coming across it quite a bit.  This is from an op-ed in the Boston Globe: The second core problem is hidden foreign tariffs called value-added

The Economist has two articles this week on the America's Climate Security Act (ACSA), a bill in the U.S. Senate.  They are generally in favor of its goals (reduction of greenhouses gases through a cap-and-trade scheme), but have a concern about one aspect of it.

Creating the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade:What the Founders Intended, What They Got, and What It Means TodayThursday, November 29, 2007, 9:00–11:00 a.m.Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036International trade scholars Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College

The zeroing litigation seems to be winding down (albeit very slowly), but the zeroing negotiations may be heating up.  From Reuters: Congress is likely to reject a world trade agreement unless it restores eroded U.S. ability to impose duties on unfairly traded imports, a pair of senior Democratic lawmakers