Clark Packard In early February, the ever-protectionist Trump administration announced it would immediately eliminate the “de minimis exemption” for low-value shipments arriving from China, effectively...
Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for the adoption of a...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler In a seeming reversal, the Trump administration is rumored to be considering ending the US Postal Service’s quasi-independence and...
Jeffrey Miron Focusing on the business tax cuts, a new paper reaches five conclusions: First, large corporate tax cuts are expensive and increase the...
Michael Chapman The 2024 Republican Party platform, reflecting the protectionist views of presidential nominee Donald Trump, notes that “our trade deficit in goods” is...
Colin Grabow One of the more intriguing results of a recent Cato Institute–commissioned poll about trade and globalization was the respondents’ views on manufacturing....
Vanessa Brown Calder Vice President Kamala Harris recently injected some policy ideas into a presidential campaign season that has been light on policy. Unfortunately,...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: How Trade Agreements Have Enhanced the Freedom and Prosperity of Americans by...
David Inserra European threats against tech companies and the speech of its users continued to escalate last weekend (August 24) as French authorities arrested...