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Stephen Miran on the U.S. Providing Global Public Goods

Last week, Stephen Miran, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, gave a speech at the Hudson Institute in which he explained that the U.S. deserved compensation for certain "global public goods" it provides to the world. In his opening remarks, he identified two such public

Collective Economic Security

Collective Economic Security By Mona Paulsen (LSE Law) and Dan Ciuriak (C.D. Howe (Senior Fellow)) With a flurry of pomp and circumstance, the second Trump administration has reset United States trade with its trading partners. Based on U.S. laws that afford wide Executive discretion towards trade actions owing

A Few Answers To My Questions about Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs

Last week, I asked a lot of questions related to what we might expect from Trump's "reciprocal tariffs." Now we have a few answers in the Executive Order and a fact sheet from yesterday. Let's go through them. Which statutes will they use as

Questions about Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs

President Trump and his trade team have been pointing to April 2 as the big day for his reciprocal tariffs. At this point, I have lots of questions, but few answers, about what to expect from all this. Here are some of my questions: - Which statutes will they use

Trump on Reciprocal Tariffs

In last night's address to Congress, Trump said the following about reciprocal tariffs: Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries. On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico and Canada

Some Quick Thoughts on "Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs"

I'm going to flesh this out a bit more later, but I wanted to post something now on today's Trump administration memo on reciprocal trade and tariffs, which involves agency investigations of "the harm to the United States from any non-reciprocal trade arrangements adopted by

Notes from the Jamieson Greer Hearing

Jamieson Greer had his Senate nomination hearing yesterday. Here are a few exchanges that I found to be of interest. Historical Examples of Successful Universal Tariffs Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked a great question about the historical record of universal tariffs, which is something that Trump has talked about: Wyden:

Some Questions for Jamieson Greer

Jamieson Greer is Trump's nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, and he will have a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, February 6. This is a great opportunity and honor for Jamieson, and along with it comes his own tag on the IELP blog. I hope he appreciates/tolerates

A Few Trade Policy Items from the Howard Lutnick Hearing

The Senate hearing for Howard Lutnick's Secretary of Commerce nomination was held yesterday. The Commerce Department does a lot of things, so much of the discussion involved issues outside of trade policy. I'm going to go through some of the items that jumped out at me

Some Questions for Howard Lutnick

Howard Lutnick is Trump's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, and he will have a Senate nomination hearing on January 29. In anticipation of the hearing, I came up with some questions for Lutnick. Any Senators participating in the hearing are welcome to adopt these questions, or a variation