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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

Trump's Trade Policy, Day 1: Just a Memo

There was a great deal of anticipation about what tariffs Trump might impose on his first day in office, but ultimately we just got a memo. (In response to a question from a reporter, Trump did say "We're thinking in terms of 25 percent [tariffs] on Mexico

A Defense of the Beleaguered WTO Appellate Body

A Defense of the Beleaguered WTO Appellate Body Steve Charnovitz 9 May 2019 In November 2017, I authored a paper warning that the Trump Administration was seeking to eviscerate World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. At the same time, I put forward a specific proposal for what the Appellate Body