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"The history of tariffs ... does not support what you're saying."
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 @ 4:15 pm
By: Daily Wire
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One journalist reacted by saying, "This is clever marketing."
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 @ 7:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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The John Locke Foundation has signed onto a letter to federal officials opposing new steel tariffs. An Ohio corporation and the United Steel Workers are petitioning to raise tariffs on tinplate steel.
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2023 @ 12:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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President Joe Biden issued a rare veto on Tuesday against a bipartisan measure that aims to reinstate tariffs on solar products from Southeast Asian countries after U.S. officials found China companies using these nations to get around trade rules.
Published: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 @ 1:38 am
By: Daily Wire
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The United States and United Kingdom are ending a host of costly tariffs, effective June 1, on a number of products, including whiskey.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, might be America’s most interesting personality, and is surely one of its wisest and noblest characters.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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China announced on Thursday that it was cutting tariffs in half on hundreds of U.S. products worth tens of billions of dollars as China struggles to contain a deadly virus that has killed hundreds.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 @ 8:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Amid an ongoing trade war with the Trump administration, China’s Ministry of Finance made a significant announcement this week that prompted some proud retweets from the president.
Published: Tuesday, December 24th, 2019 @ 1:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) signed a bipartisan letter urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to release its report on whether imported automobiles and auto parts threaten the country's national security.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 @ 12:17 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The Distilled Spirits Council and an ad hoc coalition of more than 45 business and agricultural groups are urging an end to retaliatory tariffs
Published: Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 @ 9:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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No self-respecting columnist passes up the obligatory prediction column the first week of the year. So here goes mine
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 @ 11:29 am
By: Tom Campbell
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There has always been a robust political debate between advocates of free trade and advocates of manipulating the terms of trade to protect special interests
Published: Sunday, December 30th, 2018 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Have you driven around North Carolina recently? More people have decorated with outdoor lights, blowups and festive displays than we've seen in years
Published: Sunday, December 23rd, 2018 @ 9:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement following the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) that section 201 solar tariffs played a role in the decline of utility-scale solar
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 12:41 am
By: Thom Tillis
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When is it acceptable for a Republican president to openly brag about liking taxes?
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 9:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, the stock market plummeted in the wake of President Trump's troubling tweets about the possibility of a renewed trade war with China
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 7:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Imagine yourself cut off from the rest of society. Not from all social interactions, however, just from all economic exchanges
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 7:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Walmart has low prices for all kinds of products, from clothing to shoes to groceries and almost everything in between
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tariffs will make reconstruction more expensive and possibly slow efforts to rebuild after Hurricane Florence, builders and economists say.
Published: Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 @ 9:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A handful of lawsuits which threatened to upend North Carolina's November elections resolved quietly over the past few days
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As China tangles with the President Trump over trade, North Carolina growers fear a collapse in demand, and say that even Trump's proposed $12 billion boost in farm subsidies won't stanch the billions they would bleed in a prolonged trade war
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2018 @ 11:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The latest shots in the escalating trade war will hit North Carolina manufacturers hard
Published: Monday, August 6th, 2018 @ 1:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a puzzling term regularly being used by members of the Trump administration that, they argue, is the ultimate goal of their protectionist trade policies. The phrase is "reciprocal trade."
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, President Trump fired off a tweet regarding his tariff policy, which has launched retaliatory tariffs from Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 3:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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Today, in a letter to President Trump, Gov. Roy Cooper described the damage being done to North Carolina's farmers and manufacturers by the Trump Administration's escalating trade war and urged the President to take action to prevent further damage to the economy
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2018 @ 1:49 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Driving through North Carolina's countryside this time of year is both good for the soul and a reminder of the importance agriculture plays in our state
Published: Monday, July 2nd, 2018 @ 11:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As the trade dispute with China picks up, bigger farms in North Carolina are scrambling to cope with a shrinking market of customers
Published: Monday, July 2nd, 2018 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) led a letter to Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, Secretary Wilbur Ross, and Secretary Rick Perry urging them to exclude 72 cell, 1500 volt utility-scale solar panels, a large source of U.S. jobs and investment in our domestic solar industry, from the tariffs recent
Published: Thursday, May 10th, 2018 @ 4:02 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The ill-advised and widely denounced tariff rhetoric coming from the White House has stressed manufacturers and upset the markets
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2018 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Volatility in financial markets related to President Trump's imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs has N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell's attention
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Weeks ago, President Trump announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, supposedly in an effort to jog the American economy
Published: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 @ 9:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Donald J. Trump has fulfilled his promise to fight for American workers and businesses in an amended trade deal with South Korea
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 2:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Typically, "saving American jobs" is the reason given for implementing protectionist trade measures, i.e., tariffs and quotas. The argument goes something like this: foreign producers of a product are offering American consumers a more attractive price or better quality product than they can get fro
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yes, free trade is good
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 4:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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