Fascinating, great writing. Recommended. https://t.co/IB1AqYikf9
“A Broader Compassâ€, the second part of my centennial history of the @iccwbo (1919-2019). Covers ICC’s role in 1945… https://t.co/1iXvBGahFi
RT @joannachiu: My first column on China affairs for @TorontoStar: Swarms of excited shoppers shut down Costco’s opening day, US-China trad…
Trade wars are not easy (possible) to win: but this is how it’s done: “An important—if little-noticed—aspect of the… https://t.co/eJjVWqdSCu
@BaldwinRE @snlester @SimonEvenett @TradeEconomista @women_trade @MeredithCrowle1 Isn’t there a bigger ‘problem’ no… https://t.co/yrGBqF4ysM
@Kanjo @GregAtkinson_jp Hooray! Losing your IC card with a full charge is a pretty argument for getting it on your phone (and watch?)
Easily the most boring part of being a diplomat is the ‘convocation’ rituals of host governments. Some autocrat who… https://t.co/6QST8jy1eQ
RT @snlester: Compared to what we know so far about this US-Japan trade deal, TPP got a lot more market access:
https://t.co/7FOeT0X4Xy htt…
RT @snlester: I know the Section 301 statute gives the President a lot of discretion, but at a certain point the arbitrariness of these tar…
RT @JPTrachtman: These wanton (no pun), lawless and destructive acts contradict the Commerce Clause, and are only possible because neither…
“My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?†(https://t.co/6udYsa16QT) I’m growing ti… https://t.co/bRKO2aDrL8
@alan_john_moran @CairnsGroupWTO The @CairnsGroupWTO was fun theatre for a few years: it was nice to have a bit of… https://t.co/RkXTFASVUR
@CairnsGroupWTO Good grief: 33 years! The idea first came up in meetings Dep. Sec. Peter Field & I had in Montevide… https://t.co/htvbDWwN1b
RT @insteconomics: Macron solves the problem of the G7 communiqué by abolishing it (his critique below). As I have argued in the context of…
@alan_john_moran @HenryErgas … Then, some data on CHN IP policies shows CHN (one of the biggest IP generators) is… https://t.co/7W7FfwxjIj
@alan_john_moran @HenryErgas Not absurd, but… On IP, WH & USCC (e.g. https://t.co/mn2YeyFHBg) claim weak rule-of-… https://t.co/eXCyokFSCN
@alan_john_moran Room for debate: but yes, I’m now pessimistic. I think @HenryErgas is misinformed. He says the USA… https://t.co/JAh3bPIjgt
“Sometimes I Wonder If People Just Need to Have An Enemy†https://t.co/GRQJTp7BHX
RT @Noahpinion: 18/So here is the recession story I’m proposing:
1. Natural China slowdown
2. U.S. trade war hurts the U.S.
3. U.S. trad…
… Then CHN, which though ‘ageing’ has, still, more growth opportunity in many domains than any major economy may… https://t.co/RLiJwqZQNg
The Trump disaster: there’s no strategy but destruction, no reward save vanity; everyone will be poorer, choices fe… https://t.co/j6A6QCrsCM
They’re about the same size, incidentally (830,000 m^2) https://t.co/rc4OJDkfbQ
@snlester Didn’t the Louisiana purchase in 1803 almost double US territory?
Even “good†govts can misconstrue the consequences of crucial decisions. For lack of time, imagination & planning (… https://t.co/I5ccbwPoS4
RT @TrineeshB: #OnThisDay in 1941 FDR and Churchill released the Atlantic Charter. It set out a vision for a postwar world of self-govt & e…
It must now appear to anyone outside the ‘Trump reality-distortion zone’ (incl CHN) that his trade war has no strat… https://t.co/Z842ipGTW3
This will be great fun & a career high for any trade policy wonk. Especially now Brexit is (probably) serious. Aust… https://t.co/0J4ONY7BrL
Why worry about e.g. global warming when a US President who trolls CHN on Twitter & worships the military, mocks hi… https://t.co/xOYSbILhz9
@snlester @BaldingsWorld CHN is not a transparent or purely commercial market (v. the months’-long slowdown in clea… https://t.co/xnKfrWazzr
@jeremy_gans This is troubling for speech & absurd on the evidence. Mocking the foolishness of government (or Bench… https://t.co/O72zYQhiKi
The son of former JPN PM Koizumi, who hopes to do a ‘Trudeau’, is marrying his pregnant TV-person girl-friend. His… https://t.co/Rx8VPlskyC
How to have a current account surplus (first in 40 years!) without raising tariffs: NYT story on the surprise AU tr… https://t.co/Kud4ixIbvf
RT @insteconomics: US Treasury labels China a currency manipulator. In fact, holding the currency steady in the face of market pressure to…
“In a typical year, more pre-schoolers are shot dead in America (about 75) than police officers are.†Notable essay… https://t.co/U5N7o2x0nz
RT @spikedonline: She’s antiwar. She doesn’t like identity politics. She’s opposed to political correctness. And she says we should never b…
For the quality of food & service & considering rents, good restaurants in larger JPN cities are inexpensive by AU… https://t.co/tZbr4rIlSJ
How to make your own negotiators look like mugs. “Trump hit send on his tweets announcing the new tariffs at 1:26,… https://t.co/XgU2oBWX6s
“[T]he ACCC instead spent its time inventing a whole series of new regulatory burdens to be imposed on digital medi… https://t.co/Gwu65sCkvo
RT @FreeTradeBryan: Reciprocal Trade Act introduced yesterday by @LindseyGrahamSC and @JoeManchinWV . I wrote about this in “Reciprocity fo…
RT @snlester: @DavidKleimann @tgemiles @DmitryOpines @tdubey The Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports clearly violate GATT Articles I and…
RT @GregAtkinson_jp: I’m fairly sure that many of the talking heads that discuss trade issues in the media haven’t actually been involved i…
New #WTO database on services exports & imports by mode of supply of interest especially for WTO services schedules… https://t.co/iz7zHHpjjZ