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Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Trump’s Trade War Timeline: An Up-to-Date Guide

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Melina Kolb (PIIE)
June 7, 2019
How Trade Helps Each Side
Short Videos

How Trade Helps Each Side

Featuring Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE), Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE) and Junie Joseph (PIIE)
December 18, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump poses as he signs a presidential proclamation placing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports while surrounded by workers from the steel and aluminum industries at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 8, 2018.
REUTERS/Leah Millis
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Measuring Trump's 2018 Trade Protection: Five Takeaways

Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang (PIIE)
February 15, 2019
US and China shipping containers at the dock
Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
Short Videos

Why International Trade and Investment Are Good for the US Economy: A Story in Eight Charts

Featuring Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs (PIIE)
March 20, 2015
Op-Ed
Op-Eds

The Truth about Trade Agreements—and Why We Need Them

Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
November 21, 2016

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