Quibble over ‘slippage’ on protection

The U.S. ambassador disagreed with the proposition that Member governments had begun to default on their promises.

Discounting the Intergenerational Report

Why do we need an IGR that merely regurgitates what the Government has already claimed about its own policies? An inter-generational report must be an independent and rigorous review of the evidence about policy outcomes to be of any use in the necessary debates about growing our wealth or maximising our opportunities. The current edition is…

Anti-dumping actions on the rise

Let me first of all get in an 'I told you so'.

Global Trade Alert

Just before the London G-20 Meeting in April, Andy Stoler and I wrote a paper for a booklet published by the Center for Economic Policy Research in which we suggested that the best way to make G-20 governments live up to their promises was to expose their misdeeds on trade policy—including those that nominally complied with…

Good idea or insidious threat?

But who, other than China, would loose if this idea worked and the Renminbi was revalued? Most of the rest of the world. Especially economies with a comparative advantage in agricultural production (Australia, New Zealand, Latin America) for whom imported Chinese deflation of manufactures prices offsets the EU's depression of agricultural prices (and inflation of manufactures…