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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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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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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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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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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I could be wrong on this but I think the media is over reacting once again to the provacative techniques of the Deal Maker
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 11:45 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Brian Balfour accurately called President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum “crony protectionism.” It’s a good tag
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 6:23 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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President Donald J. Trump is addressing global overcapacity and unfair trade practices in the steel and aluminum industries by putting in place a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports
Published: Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 3:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tariffs are taxes. They have always been. So when President Donald Trump announced plans to impose costly tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum into the United States, he was threatening to raise taxes on most American consumers and businesses in order to boost the incomes of special interests
Published: Thursday, March 8th, 2018 @ 2:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, President Trump signaled his desire for tariffs on steel and aluminum, tweeting out that America’s domestic industries were being outflanked by foreign production
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 2:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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It may do us well to review what our Founding Fathers conceived as a just and suitable federal tax plan
Published: Friday, February 9th, 2018 @ 2:32 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Just one week after the Trump administration announced a massive 30% tariff on imported solar panels, one of China's largest solar panel manufacturers announced plans to open a manufacturing plant in the United States
Published: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) led a bipartisan group of senators urging the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to not impose tariffs that would negatively affect the American solar industry
Published: Friday, August 11th, 2017 @ 2:30 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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