#tradepolicy — Public Fediverse posts
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How are global trade networks being used as a geopolitical weapon? Paul Krugman explores the concept of "weaponized interdependence," where nations leverage integrated economic systems to exert political pressure and coercion. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/weaponized-interdependence #Geoeconomics #TradePolicy #InternationalRelations This analysis reveals how modern power is shifting from traditional trade wars to the manipulation of critical infrastructure and supply chains, reshaping global dynamics for years to come. Read more about these evolving complexities in the full article. Great work on this piece, Paul.
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How are global trade networks being used as a geopolitical weapon? Paul Krugman explores the concept of "weaponized interdependence," where nations leverage integrated economic systems to exert political pressure and coercion. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/weaponized-interdependence #Geoeconomics #TradePolicy #InternationalRelations This analysis reveals how modern power is shifting from traditional trade wars to the manipulation of critical infrastructure and supply chains, reshaping global dynamics for years to come. Read more about these evolving complexities in the full article. Great work on this piece, Paul.
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The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
The Great Tariff Loophole: How a Policy Meant to Help Working Americans Ended Up in Corporate Hands
How Trump's Illegal Trade Duties Transformed Into a Multibillion-Dollar Corporate Windfall by Winston Wendell When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, he promised a new set of tariffs would fix the damage caused by his own 2017 tax cuts. He said regular folks wouldn’t notice the extra charges on imported goods, American manufacturers would see a boom, and those millions in profits that used to flow to the national elite would finally go away. That’s not what […] -
Trump pauses Canada tariffs for three days
Trump delayed planned 50% tariffs on Canadian imports for three days, saying the two countries have reached a deal. Canada says progress has been made, but key issues remain unresolved. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #TrumpTariffs #Canada #USCanada #TradeWar #MarkCarney #DonaldTrump #CanadaTariffs #TradeNegotiations #USCanadaTrade #USMCA #BreakingNews #WorldNews #PoliticsNews #USPolitics #TradePolicy #Tariffs #NorthAmerica…
https://fllics.com/en/video/trump-pauses-canada-tariffs-for-three-days/
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CBAM allarga le maglie: non solo acciaio, ma anche beni di consumo
https://www.metallirari.com/cbam-allarga-maglie-non-solo-acciaio-anche-beni-consumo/
L’espansione del CBAM ai prodotti downstream, approvata in commissione ENVI ma non ancora dal Parlamento, minaccia di colpire milioni di consumatori e migliaia di PMI europee.
#CBAM #EUROFER #ACEA #ETS #ClimatePolicy #EUPolicy #Siderurgia #PMI #CommoditiesNews #CarbonPricing #EuropeanParliament #TradePolicy -
229,000 excess deaths: the cost of US-UK trade deal? - The Latest https://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2026/jul/02/229000-excess-deaths-the-cost-of-us-uk-trade-deal-the-latest #Nhs #TradePolicy #DonaldTrump #Health #HealthPolicy #Politics #UkNews #UsNews #Society #PublicServicesPolicy #WorldNews #UsForeignPolicy
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How Labour diverted billions from NHS services to appease Trump – The Latest https://www.theguardian.com/society/audio/2026/jul/02/how-labour-diverted-billions-from-nhs-services-to-appease-trump-the-latest #Nhs #TradePolicy #DonaldTrump #Health #HealthPolicy #Politics #UkNews #UsNews #Society #PublicServicesPolicy #WorldNews #UsForeignPolicy
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#TorstenSlok, chief economist at Apollo Global Markets:
#Tradepolicy #uncertainty continues to decline, and the #StraitofHormuz is reopening. “This is all #bullish for #business planning and #hiring.” -
ArcelorMittal triplica i profitti nel primo trimestre 2026. Utile netto a 575 milioni di dollari
https://www.metallirari.com/breakingnews3/
#ArcelorMittal #Acciaio #Siderurgia #Industria #Economia #Mercati #Bilanci #Risultati #EBITDA #Profitti #Domanda #Produzione #PrezziAcciaio #Europa #CBAM #TradePolicy #Tariffe #ImportExport #GlobalMarkets #Manufacturing #SteelIndustry #EconomiaGlobale -
Prezzi dei coils d’acciaio fermi. I massimi sono già stati raggiunti o vedremo altri aumenti?
https://www.metallirari.com/breakingnews30/
#Acciaio #HRC #Coils #Siderurgia #MercatoAcciaio #PrezziAcciaio #SteelMarket #Industria #Commodities #CBAM #CarbonBorderAdjustment #TradePolicy #Europa #Germania #Italia #Benelux #SupplyChain #PrezziMateriePrime #EconomiaReale #SettoreIndustriale #Acciaierie #SteelIndustry #MercatiGlobali #InflazioneIndustriale #ImportExport #AnalisiMercati -
Acciaio europeo: il rimbalzo c'è, ma non illudiamoci troppo
https://www.metallirari.com/acciaio-europeo-rimbalzo-non-illudiamoci-troppo/
Dopo oltre un anno di trimestrali deludenti, i produttori di acciaio europei vedono segnali di ripresa. Restano però domanda ancora debole, energia cara e le promesse non mantenute del piano di riarmo tedesco.
#AcciaioEuropeo #Siderurgia #HotRolledCoil #CBAM #AcciaioUE2026 #MercatoAcciaio #GeopoliticaEnergia #MedioOriente #BancaCentraleEuropea #TradePolicy #MetalliIndustriali #SiderurgiaEuropa #EnergyPrices -
‘We need to think much bigger’: trade minister calls for greater ambition in UK-EU reset https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/20/trade-minister-chris-bryant-uk-eu-reset-ambition #TradePolicy #EuropeanUnion #Brexit #ChrisBryant #EuropeanCommission #Politics #UkNews #WorldNews #Europe #Labour
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Decision to allow UK exports to Armenian firm under review over Russian links https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/decision-allow-uk-exports-cygnet-texkimp-armenian-firm-review-russian-links #TradePolicy #Russia #Armenia #UkNews #ChrisBryant #Europe #Politics #WorldNews
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https://www.wacoca.com/news/2775843/ EUの炭素価格上乗せ制度がスタート 世界の気候政策を変えられるか – SWI swissinfo.ch #Article #BeatClimateAdaptation #BeatGlobalTrade #EU #Europe #EuropeanUnion #ExplainItToMe #GiveMePerspective #GlobalWarming #pollution #ProductionTypeAdaptation #StateBudgetAndTax #TradePolicy #ヨーロッパ #欧州 #欧州連合
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How Peter Navarro, Trump’s Tariff Cheerleader, Became the Ultimate Yes-Man – The New Yorker
Illustration by Barry BlittPeter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man
The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials.
By Ian Parker, December 22, 2025
Illustration by Barry BlittAs an economist, Navarro wrote that retaliatory tariffs are how “trade wars are born.” He now backs Trump’s trade wars. Illustration by Barry Blitt
In March, 2016, Peter Navarro introduced himself to students in Managing Geopolitical Risk in an Age of a Rising China, a new undergraduate course at the University of California, Irvine. Donald Trump was then a month away from becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for President. Navarro, who had tenure at the business school, was an academic oddity: he worked at a research university, but he’d done little serious research since finishing his doctorate in economics, at Harvard, thirty years earlier. And he didn’t seem to enjoy contact with students. A former friend of his, an economist, recently said, “I don’t think he liked teaching that much—he liked talking.” Navarro had secured a life of privilege and frustration. He lived in a big house in Laguna Beach with an ocean view and a pool surrounded by statuary. But he plainly yearned to be somewhere, or someone, else.
Professors often develop side hustles. But Navarro had long sought to trade his academic status for a more dazzling form of power—mayor of San Diego, stock guru, Democratic congressman, television host. He’d largely failed in these ambitions, thanks in part to traits he recognized in himself: he was arrogant, abrasive, and disdainful. “The problem was my personality,” Navarro wrote, in an account of his struggles as a political candidate. Although he once compared his charisma to Barack Obama’s, he knew that many who met him regarded him as an asshole. He was always getting into spats. Shortly before Navarro’s new course began, he sent an e-mail to John Graham, another U.C. Irvine professor, asking, “Are you frigging deaf, dumb, and blind?”
Navarro had first pitched his class in a mass e-mail to thirty thousand students. That spring, only seventeen had enrolled. The room could have held a hundred. “He was not a prominent professor,” one of the students who’d chosen to take the course recently recalled.
She remembers him as skinny and “a little bit on the shorter side.” Navarro, who is about five feet seven, was an avid cyclist, bodysurfer, and cold-bath plunger. Then as now, he resembled an agitated basketball coach: rolled-up sleeves, graying hair combed straight back from a tanned and taut face. Long drawn to language aimed at making mundane tasks sound muscular or militaristic, he instructed students to bring “laptop capability.”
Navarro had just published “Crouching Tiger,” his third book to describe China as an ugly threat to America and the world. The previous two, from 2006 and 2011, had portrayed China as an amoral economic force; the new one emphasized the country’s rising military ambitions. It was bluntly polemical—Chinese missiles were “designed to literally ram American satellites out of the sky”; a submarine base was “right out of a James Bond novel”—and it contained no evidence that Navarro could speak Chinese or had even visited China. Footnotes frequently cited op-eds and Wikipedia. The book was largely ignored. A “Crouching Tiger” account on Twitter attracted only a few dozen followers. When Navarro was challenged about his expertise in a testy Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, he replied, “Many of my experts . . . get much of their source material directly from the Chinese.” When comments dried up, Navarro asked, “any body out there????”
Yet, as Navarro’s student discovered, the class was the book. Each week, students discussed either “Crouching Tiger” or episodes of an accompanying documentary series that Navarro clearly hadn’t quite finished assembling. “We would watch these weird videos,” the student said. In addition to talking-head interviews, “there would be, like, ‘INSERT ANIMATION HERE’ ”; Navarro appeared in front of an unaltered green screen. The student wondered if she was enrolled in a book-marketing focus group. Not long after, the videos began to appear on YouTube.
Navarro’s teaching assistant, Ben Leffel, who had lived and worked in China, didn’t share Navarro’s geopolitical views. (Leffel, who now teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told me that he always saw Navarro as a charlatan drawn to “performative warmongering.”) Leffel tried to be a moderating influence—particularly on the many occasions when Navarro did not come to class—but the course remained yoked to “Crouching Tiger.” The student said that the class’s message was simple: “We have to be afraid of China.”
The final exam was held in early June, around the time that Navarro had what he has called a “surreal” experience. One morning, he has written, he walked down the hill from his home to Victoria Beach—“hallowed ground from where I would launch my paddle board and cruise out among the seals and dolphins.” He was expecting a call. Stephen Miller, who was then a thirty-year-old speechwriter for Trump and who now oversees the federal government’s effort to terrorize people perceived to be undocumented immigrants, wanted to talk. Navarro wrote, “As I sat down in the sand hoping that my cell phone reception would hold, the key thing that kept popping into my mind was how close I was to power—yet, in tiny Laguna Beach, so far away.”
Navarro likes to say that he was one of only three senior advisers to serve Trump from his first campaign to the end of his first term. The others he identifies are Miller and Dan Scavino, who is now a deputy chief of staff. In the taxonomy of political sidekicks, Navarro, who advises on trade, isn’t a carrier of darkly destructive principles, like Miller. Nor is he a natural political fixer. And he can’t be described as a persuasive orator. His frequent TV appearances—where he tends to be uninterruptible, while gesturing with his index and pinkie fingers extended, like Paulie Walnuts on “The Sopranos”—can be off-putting even to allies. His friend Stephen Bannon, the former White House adviser turned broadcaster, once cut off Navarro’s microphone to break his flow.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: How Peter Navarro, Trump’s Tariff Cheerleader, Became the Ultimate Yes-Man | The New Yorker
Tags: Books, Crouching Tiger, Economics, Failed Politician, John Graham, Peter Navarro, Politics, Professor, San Diego, Tariffs, Trade Policy, Trump
#Books #CrouchingTiger #Economics #FailedPolitician #JohnGraham #PeterNavarro #Politics #Professor #SanDiego #Tariffs #TradePolicy #Trump -
How many more Americans would live below the poverty line if the US government were to ban all imports of consumer goods?
#protectionism #importsubstitution #mercantilism #autarky #tradebarriers #tradewars #poverty #povertyline #americans #affordabilitycrisis #inflation #tradepolicy #usa #donaldtrump #tariffs #consumergoods #economics #imports -
US Pushes Tariff Agreement With India For Full E-Commerce Access for Amazon and Walmart
#USTrade #India #Ecommerce #Amazon #Walmart #Tariffs #TradeTalks #DonaldTrump #Modi #FDI #MarketAccess #TradePolicy #Geopolitics #USEconomy #SupplyChain #Regulation