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Apr 28, 2016 · From U.S. presidential campaign rhetoric to the recently signed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, it might feel like this debate has just started. But debate over trade is...
The United States is party to many free trade agreements (FTAs) worldwide. Beginning with the Theodore Roosevelt administration, the United States became a major player in international trade, especially with its neighboring territories in the Caribbean and Latin America. The United States helped negotiate the General Agreement on Tariffs and ...
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- Why Protectionism?
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- What Is Comparative Advantage?
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High tariff walls, it was believed, would protect domestic industry from foreign manufacturers. These distant producers could hire laborers for a fraction of the cost that domestic manufactures could, allowing them to produce and sell similar products for a lower price. This did not sit well with American manufacturers who believed that Americans s...
While protectionists such as William McKinley arguedthat high tariff walls protected infant industries, allowing them to mature into fully developed manufacturers, they also meant higher production costs and thus higher prices for American consumers. By 1892, when Taussig published the first edition of his book, he believed that the United States h...
Conventional wisdom holds that protectionists have overlooked the value of an economic concept known as comparative advantage. First introduced by the British political economist David Ricardo, comparative advantage involves producing goods more efficiently than other countries. Each nation has a unique distribution of land and resources which allo...
As economic historian Douglas Irwin points out in his recent book, Clashing Over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy, the United States has always been divided by those who have opposing economic interests that are rooted in geography. Regions that are dominated by agriculture, for example, have traditionally supported low tariffs because they h...
Nov 18, 2020 · It's been a rough four years for free trade. During his presidency, President Trump blew up the Trans-Pacific Partnership, levied trade-chilling tariffs on China and other countries, and...
Apr 12, 2018 · In the late 19th century, the Democratic Party (represented here by Grover Cleveland and his running mate Adlai Stevenson) was the party of free trade, while the GOP was the faction of harsh...
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Few people realize the connection between the goods they purchase, free trade agreements, environmental protection and how all of this ties back to American security and international criminal organizations.
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This survey reviews the broad changes in U.S. trade policy over the course of the nation’s history. Import tariffs have been the main instrument of trade policy and have had three main purposes: to raise revenue for the government, to restrict imports and protect domestic producers from foreign
