Tag international trade

They are usually wrong

To quote from a June 2016 post on this blog: Trump, it turns out, has consistently argued since at least 1990 that the terms of trade between the United States and its allies unfairly favor the latter because the US…

Trump on trade: make free riders pay

“They are selling us their BMWs and TVs and oil and we are giving them security – for free. Either we slap a tariff on their goods or they start paying their fair share for joint defense.” Surprisingly, this was Donald Trump’s…