by Dave Johnson | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Yes, much of Donald Trump's message has a white nationalist and anti-woman character to it. But here is a warning: If Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee she had better get tough on trade – and mean it. One of Donald Trump' main elements of appeal to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Trade
China is producing much more steel than the country and the world can use, and is "dumping" it onto international markets. But when China was confronted with the dumping charge at a conference in Brussels this week, the Chinese government refused to back down. The...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Trade
I went to Washington, D.C., last week to ask trade experts and lawmakers to stop the relentless, lawless, callous dumping of Chinese steel, aluminum, paper, rubber, glass, chemicals and other products, which has closed mills, killed jobs, destroyed lives, devastated...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade
The Bush administration negotiated the Panama free trade agreement without addressing Panama's bank and corporate secrecy. Panama has little to "trade" with the U.S., so maybe leaving secrecy out of the agreement wasn't an accident; it was the point. It provided a...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Last year President Obama went to Nike headquarters to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). But Nike doesn't make shoes in the US, and TPP would force companies like New Balance to stop making shoes here. New Balance kept quiet about this, but now says the...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
China increased its steel production capacity by 540 percent between 2000 and 2014. Then the market slowed. To keep from having to lay off workers, China's steel companies started "dumping" steel on world markets at below-market prices. As a result, steel companies...
