As a result, CEI experts have encouraged and supported trade-enhancing policies and treaties over the years, including “fast-track” Trade Promotion Authority, specific trade deals, and multilateral efforts such as the Doha round of the World Trade Organization. We have opposed increased tariffs, attempts to increase regulation through trade deal language, and the trend toward bilateral rather than multilateral deals. CEI continues to make the case for free trade in the face of increased bipartisan hostility to the idea.
CEI’s experts also work with like-minded colleagues abroad to oppose harmful initiatives, such as working with British colleagues to stop that country’s competition agency from blocking mergers between American firms based on speculative reasoning.
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Three strikes against Biden EV tariffs
Over at the syndicate InsideSources, I have an op-ed explaining three problems with President Biden’s new tariffs on $18 billion worth of EVs, solar…
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Biden’s Tariffs Are a Bad Idea
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CEI Experts React to President Biden’s Wide-Ranging Executive Order on Competition
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Are Tariffs the Right Response to Foreign Digital Taxes?
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US/EU Reach Limited Agreement on Aerospace Tariffs but Fall Short
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Israel Has Every Right to Destroy Hamas
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Steel Companies Lobby for Steel Tariffs, Biden to Double Lumber Tariffs
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