Authored by Justin Liu
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One lesson protectionists forgot: Trade interventions backfire
- By: Justin Liu
It’s not just tariffs that backfire in trade policy. The government has a long history of similar failures. Between 1934 and 1941, the Treasury…
Section 338-tariff uncertainty highlights the knowledge problem
- By: Justin Liu
Last month, the Trump administration invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose new 50 percent tariffs against Canada. A…
Protectionism in North America? Not again
- By: Justin Liu
Well before its ratification in 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was scorned by its critics as a dangerous, unfair deal. CEI,…