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Trump & ‘Reciprocal Tariffs’ — Trying to Find U.S. Law to Further Undermine Global Trade Law & the Global System.

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Stuart Malawer

     The Trump administration is scouring U.S. law to find a basis for furthering disrupting the existing global trading system and thus the broader international political and economic system. Legally, his reliance on various domestic laws is very questionable, … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Trade Policies — Continuing to Go Backward, More Unilateral, Confrontational and Unpredictable.

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Stuart Malawer

     The Trump administration continues to upset existing trade relations by imposing universal tariffs on steel and aluminum and by digging deeper into U.S. trade law by relying on older legislation.  In particular, by focusing on national security and … Continue reading →

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Trump and Biden — More on Tariffs and Trade.

Posted on October 21, 2024 by Stuart Malawer

     Discussions of the Trump and Biden administrations tariff and trade policies have continued to escalate during the closing days of this election season. Here are some additional points currently cited. Biden favored working with allies, however, he refused … Continue reading →

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Diplomacy & U.S. – China Trade Conflict — Can it Help?

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Stuart Malawer

    Even though U.S. – China trade relations are a source of a continuing and growing political conflict there are some diplomatic efforts attempting to restrain it.  American business is one vocal group supporting such diplomatic efforts to reduce … Continue reading →

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Doing Away with the “De Minimis Exception” and Chinese Imports — Harming U.S. Consumers for Political Gain?

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Stuart Malawer

     U.S. trade decisions continue to reflect domestic politics rather than basic economics. The proposal to do away with (or extremely limit) the “De Minimis Exception” for tariffs on imports from China (primarily impacting low-cost fashion from Temu and … Continue reading →

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Growing U.S. Legal Storm over U.S.-China Trade Relations?

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Stuart Malawer

     The recent visit by the U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellin this month (April) to China was not very productive.  This blog provides quotes from recent articles commenting on U.S.-China trade relations focusing on the U.S. legal aspects.     … Continue reading →

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Biden, Trump & China Trade: Domestic & Geopolitics Politics — From Bad to Worse?

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Stuart Malawer

    This blog is an update of my previous one. It provides more quotes from recent articles commenting on U.S.-China trade relations.  As I said previously, to me, they highlight the broad and disturbing aspects of geopolitics and trade … Continue reading →

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National Security, Protectionism and U.S.-China Trade — Biden v. Trump 2.0 (Commentaries).

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Stuart Malawer

     The quotes below are from articles that have appeared recently discussing Trump, global trade, national security, the WTO, U.S. trade policy, U.S-China trade, and U.S. foreign policy generally — seen through the prism of recent events and the … Continue reading →

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IS CHINA TRADE STRATEGY A RESPONSE TO U.S. TRADE LAWS?

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Stuart Malawer

    A new hypothesis seems to be emerging concerning China’s trade policies and U.S. law, which I agree with to some extent. That China’s global trade policies are in response, in part, to restrictions and other actions under U.S. trade … Continue reading →

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BIDEN’S TRADE POLICY: National Security & Protectionism.

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Stuart Malawer

   Here’s a recent article of mine on Biden’s trade policy now focusing on national security and protectionism. This builds upon Trump’s policies and foreshadows Trump’s newer policies if he is reelected. This is somewhat worrisome. The following is an … Continue reading →

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