@BaldingsWorld Actually: no. The outcome of a successful WTO dispute requires the loser to bring their laws/policie… https://t.co/lPBlm2c8il
Hooray! As it was in 1958, for pencils anyway (https://t.co/FQQ0cnFAhD). https://t.co/kFTQzIK2o0
Do trade-wars lead to real wars? “The natural effect of trade is to bring about peace” (Montesquieu, De l’esprit de… https://t.co/WDo9OrRMTr
“Goods and services from China accounted for only 2.7% of U.S. personal consumption expenditures in 2010, of which… https://t.co/LWEAoZPgrZ
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has a conventional “balanced†asset allocation in equities, fixed-income & property… https://t.co/11LC6oBzg8
Pressed on threats to ‘globalization’, the CEO of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund speculates there might be 2 mega-r… https://t.co/JYEoWRASp2
@insteconomics “…and pay more tax.â€
On the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings almost 30 years ago (via @MargRev):: https://t.co/gZCZ2OUvlt
Of course we can expect pieties from the these Ministers about “WTO reform†(Hah!). They also want us to take serio… https://t.co/HOKRnZzhcg
RT @CatoTrade: While the administration shows no signs of backing down, there are two possible events that could lead to some reconsiderati…
WTO Member govts reached just one (mushy) agreement in 25 years of negotiations, reducing the Organization to a boo… https://t.co/yxZ18ywM25
… ‘grand mutual gains’? Dunno… but why not?
The CHN “White Paper†on the trade conflict with USA puts up a plausible defence on IP, lands a few punches, and ma… https://t.co/J5LHBTQpXK
Perhaps one reason governments abuse foreign trade: no skin in the game. US ITC estimates imply government imports… https://t.co/WQGrHj8BQB
RT @snlester: The new KORUS is just the old KORUS with minor tweaks: https://t.co/B80TDELgoO https://t.co/OmoKVYB8rD
RT @greg_ip: Solar power externalities: 2/3 of rise in residential electric bills for 3 California utilities due to increase in distributed…
James B Reston (NY TImes 27 Jan, 1946) reporting the first meeting of the UN in London: “To the League of Nations c… https://t.co/1Pv3vNHtzK
@chip_roh Democracy means, of course, getting what we vote for and getting it “good and hard†as Mencken said ;-)
Pres Trump thinks trade is about bargaining for dollars; that’s his policy. He hardly knows how foreign trade & cap… https://t.co/lyCQ4q88sx
USTR Lighthizer has foreign-policy, not trade, goals: to force vaguely specified changes in CHN economic policies &… https://t.co/9ES49ntNMP
The 15 years CHN needed to negotiate WTO accession and 15 years it took to implement the Protocol saw dramatic chan… https://t.co/VpmBwbt280
How can USTR Lighthizer believe a “trade war†will change CHN, or USA for that matter? In the 1980s he watched from… https://t.co/QBWf8GaPBj
Trade measures have power to cause harm at home, but trade agreements are puny levers on the world. Cordell Hull’s… https://t.co/fBUsLLA0aJ
The progressive internationalism (“prosperity is indivisibleâ€) of the UN, Bretton Woods & GATT agreements did not e… https://t.co/LefQ3pPPfv
JFK’s moon-shot “Grand Design†(1962) for trans-Atlantic economic “interdependence†(his term) & for integrating em… https://t.co/KyG46iBJuk
The World Bank estimated (2005 Global Economic Prospects) ~ 65% of developing ctry. liberalization in previous 20 y… https://t.co/gyyH4ilRcc
The Trump-Lighthizer attack on CHN is based on (mostly?) wrong facts; it prejudicially misreads an historic opportu… https://t.co/YMbcWX2eYD
The combative rhetoric of US cabinet officials on CHN and of the President on trade in general is disturbing but no… https://t.co/klsuFJIUqv
Excellent portrait. I wd. say Mr Lighthizer’s policies are more reminiscent of Malcolm Baldridge (lead photo) than… https://t.co/MbTkhVfHoQ
The Trump tariff regime becomes a form of import licensing. Historical experience is that “lIcenses†— e.g. to imp… https://t.co/0zzO5tcYrL
RT @DanielJHannan: Here it is, the perfect British-American trade treaty. I hope it will become the basis of a broader trade nexus among li…
RT @insteconomics: Funny how some commentators view the economy as just an extension of Canberra and the political system, as though the e…
RT @spikedonline: After years of scaremongering about the Irish border, the EU now admits there is a technical fix. It is scandalous how Br…
RT @davidcollinslaw: The Ideal U.S.-U.K. Free Trade Agreement: A Free Trader’s Perspective https://t.co/veTUwY5gck via @CatoInstitute
Seems it has taken a while for @tylercowen to start worrying that the Trump war-on-trade might matter to the USA ec… https://t.co/lxhHeLpdS9
RT @JPTrachtman: In case anyone still cares, the US tariffs on China, and China’s retaliation, are both clear violations of WTO law. The U…
Jim Manzi (2010) on the causal density of social science; how it undermines both regression-based & random-experime… https://t.co/ltfEd81pMH
“A Twist in the Taleâ€::https://t.co/ZpnXEFMiaA
Still, the most important issue for the US & CHN economies in any Mnuchin-Liu talks is the counterpart of the trade… https://t.co/TO3pcOOlO3
Were there to be negotiations, I assume CHN would offer VERs. Contrary to Art XIX, of course, but probably their be… https://t.co/KmLjNKwd8v
CatoTrade The U.S. Trade Beef with China. buff.ly/2Mr5sx2 pic.twitter.com/QgAjqIg0gG
@FastMail Endorse your criticisms of this objectionable, unnecessary bill.
Tariffs are destructive probes into a vast, obscure, but highly-articulated engine (https://t.co/06NOzezNRI). They… https://t.co/IxVngNRl22
Hmm…An instance of @ATabarrok pedagogy? Surprising! Still, could be the best way to explain Macro. https://t.co/6BnE9htgh8
RT @insteconomics: “I never had that conversation with him.” https://t.co/OYk1r43gFX
It’s misleading to call the Trump tariffs a “conflict between the world’s two biggest economies†(… https://t.co/Zl1SR4NMpV
It’s an astonishing piece of treacherous self-serving. ‘Political’ staffers are the same the world over, I guess. A… https://t.co/HpbJHkicG5
@D_A_Irwin Oops… Baldridge/Regan…
@D_A_Irwin Indeed. RIP Mike Finger: canny, contrarian, a critic of the Baldwin/Regan 1980s ‘trade war’, disciple of… https://t.co/LcDN8ebp2Y
Notionally to secure the assets of big tech companies who went into CHN with their eyes wide-open, Mr Trump blindsi… https://t.co/XqHLtUoFBV
The smaller cities of Emilia Romagna (Modena, Parma, Ferrara, Ravenna) have survived two thousand years of turmoil… https://t.co/ln74Zhe8iU
The never-ending cocktail party of the Immortals: “Life devoid of categorical desires, Williams claimed, would devo… https://t.co/R39wPh2Rzp
RT @USSC: .@insteconomics argues the ‘no’ case in the latest in our Debate Papers Series on whether the global trading system will survive…
The rate of human genetic mutation: “[D]ozens of humans harbor a mutation in [each of ~3bn base pairs of the genome… https://t.co/PVzdxpSLpL
RT @insteconomics: ‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data https://t.co/JwFXYCXNUg
RT @alanbeattie: 2/ He’s used trade policy to try to force domestic reform (ag and services) in a textbook way; he’s tried to round up coal…
RT @USSC: Will the global trading system survive Trump’s tariffs? ITS Global’s Alan Oxley and @insteconomics go head-to-head in the latest…
Apparent consumption (incl. waste) of alcohol in AU down to levels not seen since 1962. A new sobriety? Decline in… https://t.co/Wp3g9a5LCc
How to make a quick “back of envelope†estimate (from https://t.co/GCr4bUreA1). The geometric mean is like an arith… https://t.co/blgDQDgdwJ
@snlester It’s a risk. But “just say no†is a tough call. Wd. be interesting to know how procedures for adding a pr… https://t.co/NvBuJYVmYU
@SamKSS An “FTA†with the EU will cost us ~ nothing on the trade/investment side (altho maybe some IP concessions)… https://t.co/ZOruojTwEl
“Cell Biology by the Numbers†(Milo, Phillips) with beautiful illustrations (Orme). Well written, accessible, detai… https://t.co/3iolGvtCOf
@samirvarma Yes, you’re right: too harsh. Cracks in the edifice would be welcome. Still, I’m attracted to the argum… https://t.co/jpf9sAmzcH
We all hope that there’s something just over the horizon that will replace the arbitrary, creaky “standard modelâ€.… https://t.co/VSsHOurcOL
Die-hard CAN dairy protectionists often claim (https://t.co/RF5Fz0EzRh) they’d be “wiped out†by trade liberalizati… https://t.co/qLsA7alP1Q
@snlester No: DFAT say only that it’s being ‘scrubbed’. I can’t believe much of it is original so I would expect t… https://t.co/1tsO8FD0mH
This (USA holiday) weekend, Australians should, but won’t, celebrate a new broad, deep trade agreement with a big n… https://t.co/oKRa6I3lGF
Congress may be willing to allow Mr Trump some rein on CHN (I don’t agree). But will they stand-by while he trample… https://t.co/MG91hgwCd7
Wow! “… no political necessity… decades of abuseâ€?! How does the USA’s close friend and neighbour deserve this?… https://t.co/QN37A8jCSo
It has taken a while to work out, but the AU-IDN “Comprehensive Partnership†(i.e. FTA) agreed yesterday seems a ve… https://t.co/Dx9r5xgEHP