William Reinsch Quoted on NAFTA Negotiations
During the 1992 presidential campaign, independent candidate Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire with a gift for folksy phrases, put an obscure trade deal between the U.S., Canada and Mexico smack into the heat of the American political debate. Click here to read the full piece.
Boy, Do My Feet Hurt
By William Reinsch The past few months I have spent most of my time in this column criticizing the Trump administration for various things it has done or said — and occasionally complimented it for not doing some of the things it said. Fair play, however, requires looking at Democratic policies as well and, like […]
Nate Olson Quoted in Politico on Trade Negotiations
Morning Trade – A daily speed read on global trade news. -snip- There’s further concern that the Trump administration might feel “increasingly boxed in” and be driven to take extreme trade action “consequences be damned,” said Nate Olson, director of the Stimson Center’s Trade in the 21st Century initiative. Read the full article here.
The Return of the Pig
By William Reinsch Last week I wrote about the CED talks with the China and the implications of their apparent failure. I ended up rather blithely recommending that we needed a strategy rather than a succession of one-off transactional negotiations that might win individual battles but would lose the war. It occurred to me afterwards […]
China: Keeping the Lipstick off the Pig
By William Reinsch Last week’s CED session with China was surprising because it avoided the standard outcome of these things — a long list of minor accomplishments which are hailed as significant breakthroughs. In other words, instead of putting lipstick on the pig, for the first time they just trotted out the pig. This is […]
William Reinsch Quoted in CNBC on Trade Negotiations Between US and China
Got rice? That’s what China, the world’s largest consumer of rice, is now asking the U.S. For the first time ever, Asia’s economic giant will allow imports of American rice, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday. That comes as a welcome signal after annual trade talks between the two nations broke down this week […]
The Challenges Facing the New NAFTA Negotiation
By William Reinsch Two weeks ago I talked in general terms about some of the forces at play in the looming NAFTA negotiation. This week let’s take a closer look at some of the likely issues. These seem to fall into four groups: new stuff, the stuff individual specific groups want, process stuff, and the […]
William Reinsch Interviewed on CNBC on US-China Trade
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