A moored container ship in Qingdao, China. Getty Images June 25, 2020 A selective retreat from trade with China makes sense for the United States Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology Although there will be some economic harm, it may be time to retreat from free trade with China and focus on our national security concerns.
A finished steel coil is marked with its information by a worker at a mill in Farrell, Pennsylvania. Reuters/Aaron Josefczyk March 21, 2018 Tariffs won’t save American steel jobs. But we can still help steelworkers Morten Wendelbo, Texas A&M University and Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University President Trump’s new tariffs suggest he doesn’t understand why American steel and aluminum have been hurt in the first place.
For some, free trade has been costly. Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa via AP October 25, 2016 Want to help free trade’s losers? Make ‘adjustment assistance’ more than just burial insurance Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan Trade adjustment assistance, dubbed ‘burial insurance’ by those it’s supposed to help, needs to be significantly reformed so that future trade deals don’t have so many workers feeling left behind.