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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

Four American presidents on free trade (Truman/Eisenhower/JFK/Reagan) 60 seconds

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

I should probably make this my pinned tweet: "We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag."

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@FreeTradeBryan

9 months

I am embarrassed that we don’t have a single major presidential candidate willing and able to articulate this to American voters.

Milei Explains

@Milei_Explains

10 months

How import tariffs weaken the economy and your wallet. #milei #argentina #economy #tariffs #imports #entrepreneurs #wages #openeconomy #freetrade

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Reagan "If one [trading] partner shoots a hole in the boat, does it make sense for the other one to shoot another hole in the boat? Some say, yes, and call that getting tough. Well, I call it stupid."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

"... we should take a moment to recognize that one of the key factors behind our nation's great prosperity is the open trade policy that allows the American people to freely exchange goods and services with free people around the world"

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

WOW President Trump is just announced new tariffs on aluminum at Whirlpool, a company that makes appliances out of....wait for it....ALUMINUM

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

EU tariffs on US motorcycles were increased to 31% to retaliate against President Trump's tariffs on steel/aluminum. President Trump you can reduce EU motorcycle tariffs by 25 percentage points by dropping the steel and aluminum tariffs. You're welcome.

European Union Places Tariff On American-Made Motorcycles

The European Union has placed new tariffs on American-made products, including motorcycles from Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycle.

www.cycleworld.com

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

“Harley Davidson has struggled with Tariffs with the EU, currently paying 31%. They’ve had to move production overseas to try and offset some of that Tariff that they’ve been hit with which will rise to 66% in June of 2021.” @MariaBartiromo So unfair to U.S. We will Reciprocate!

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

"The freedom to trade is not a new issue for America. In 1776 our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, charging the British with a number of offenses, among them, and I quote, 'cutting off our trade with all parts of the world,' end quote."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

"Over the past 200 years, not only has the argument against tariffs and trade barriers won nearly universal agreement among economists but it has also proven itself in the real world, where we have seen free-trading nations prosper while protectionist countries fall behind."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

"We too often talk about trade while using the vocabulary of war. In war, for one side to win, the other must lose. But commerce is not warfare. Trade is an economic alliance that benefits both countries. There are no losers, only winners."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

"In recent years, the trade deficit led some misguided politicians to call for protectionism, warning that otherwise we would lose jobs. But they were wrong again."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

"Yes, back in 1776, our Founding Fathers believed that free trade was worth fighting for. And we can celebrate their victory because today trade ... is the source of our prosperity and the path to an even brighter future for America."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Here is the link

President Reagan's Radio Address on Canadian Elections and Free Trade...

Full Title: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Canadian Elections and Free Trade from Rancho Del Cielo in Santa Barbara, California on Novembe...

www.youtube.com

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

"The United States took the lead after WWII in creating an international trading system that limited governments' ability to disrupt free trade across borders." via @ronaldreagan40

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@FreeTradeBryan

28 days

This is for the “actually, @RonaldReagan was a protectionist” people, from his autobiography:

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

Here is a picture of President Trump bashing globalization and imposing tariffs on aluminum used by companies like @whirlpoolusa while standing in front of Whirlpool boxes labeled in English/French/Spanish because 12% of the company's US-made products are exported. 🤯🤯🤯

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Reagan: "If one partner shoots a hole in the boat, does it make sense for the other one to shoot another hole in the boat? Some say, yes, and call that getting tough. Well, I call it stupid." via @ronaldreagan40

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

JFK on trade: “But we will be producing more of what we produce best, and others will be producing more of what they produce best. There'll be new employment in our growth industries--and this will come mostly in our high wage industries which are our most competitive abroad--“

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@FreeTradeBryan

8 years

Did the Hawley Smoot tariff work? Anyone? Anyone? It did not work, and the US sank deeper into the Great Depression

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Winston Churchill's vs. "national security" justification for tariffs: "Every exchange which takes place between nations renders another exchange possible...Multiply exchanges and you multiply goodwill; increase goodwill and you increase national security."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

3 years

Had we not included the handy arrow, could you have identified the year China joined the WTO from this chart on U.S. manufacturing jobs?

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@FreeTradeBryan

2 months

If Trump/Vance wreck the economies of Latin American countries with new tariffs, there’s not a wall big enough to stop the illegal immigration that will result.

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

Neighborhood sports bar. Only in DC....

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

@Michael8easley Sorry you are hurting and missing your Mom ☹️☹️☹️ One of great memories when my Dad was here was us watching you lead KSU to 84-75 win in Manhattan

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@FreeTradeBryan

7 months

Former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer recently had a piece in @TheEconomist on trade and tariffs. It may be the most far-fetched piece the magazine has ever published. I can't say for sure because I haven't read every issue since 1843. THREAD 🧵

Donald Trump’s former trade chief makes the case for more tariffs

There are economic, geopolitical and moral reasons to increase protectionism, says Robert Lighthizer

www.economist.com

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 months

I am honored to work at an organization that calls balls and strikes based on policy and not “Trump tariffs bad, Biden tariffs good” or vice-versa. Biden has largely kept Trump 301 and 232 tariffs on even beyond their intended statutory expiration dates.

Veronique de Rugy

@veroderugy

6 months

Trump’s tariff plan would cost families $1,500 a year, Democratic group finds | Semafor

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@FreeTradeBryan

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@greg_ip Sneaky Haitians obviously replaced Miss Sassy with a lookalike cat to cover their tracks. 🐈

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

@350_DC @ShutDown_DC congratulations on all the increased pollution you created today

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@FreeTradeBryan

2 months

NAFTA was one of the most successful international agreements in history. It was an effort to spread the U.S. Constitution's intrastate free trade zone beyond our borders.

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Navarro vs Navarro: "I don't believe any country in the world is going to retaliate" ... "what China did, and it's a big mistake, was they came back and retaliated with their own tariffs"

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

FDR "I cannot picture Uncle Sam as a supine, white-livered, flabby-muscled old man, cooling his heels in the shade of our tariff walls." Does his attached quote remind you of anything?

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Are you still a believer in tariffs? Because at 72 it's marginal, right?

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

Sometimes the simplest solution is also the best: "On day one, Beto will end the trade war with China by eliminating the Trump tariffs. In exchange, China would revoke its retaliatory tariffs on American products like soybeans, beef, cars, and planes."

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𝙱𝚛𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚁𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 🗽🇺🇸

@FreeTradeBryan

2 months

🥳Once it's explained to them, 76% of Americans correctly think the trade deficit is no big deal.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

2 months

🚨NEW TODAY🚨 @CatoInstitute / @YouGov polling for our #CatoGlobalization project on Americans' views re trade, globalization, and real-world tradeoffs. The results are fascinating... and probably a lot different from what you normally hear/read: /1

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

@rachelbovard I read it because I thought there was no way it could be as bad as people were saying. I was wrong.

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 year

From my brilliant friend:

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@FreeTradeBryan

2 years

Please accept my apologies for my inability to produce a chart showing Chinese ownership of U.S. ag land. The problem is, the amount is so insignificant that I can't even get it to show up.

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

For those keeping score at home, 30% tax on $250 billion imports+15% tax on $300 billion=$120 billion in taxes, or $941/household based on 127,586,000 households

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

THREAD: In honor of World Trade Week, here are excerpts from Presidential Proclamations recognizing this week from Harry S. Truman through Donald J. Trump.

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

My favorite Sec 301 comment so far is the one from a Brazilian company requesting higher US tariffs on China so Americans will have to buy more from Brazil.

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 months

@SenMarcoRubio In case you wondered why he didn't link to any sources:

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@FreeTradeBryan

7 months

US tariffs are paid by American taxpayers.

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@FreeTradeBryan

7 years

President Reagan: We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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@FreeTradeBryan

3 years

Robert Lighthizer: "Policymakers need to abandon the dogma of trade from 18th-century philosophers and embrace new thinking for novel circumstances." (by "new thinking" he means mercantilist policies from the 1500s that were discredited by Adam Smith/Ricardo/Bastiat/etc.)

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 month

Do you acknowledge that the earth is round? "No, I don't. Scientists disagree about whether the earth is flat." 🧵

Acyn

@Acyn

1 month

Welker: Do you acknowledge that consumers will ultimately pay more if there are more tariffs. Do you acknowledge that? Vance: No, I don’t. Economists disagree about the effects of tariffs..

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 month

❓"increase competition by reducing competition"

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 months

Sen. Marco Rubio on the need for more tariffs: "Will greater trade barriers raise some prices at the department store? Perhaps, but American producers will step up to fill the gap."

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

I am hearing the GOP COVID bill expands the protectionist Berry amendment and forbids the purchase of medical goods from our allies to fill our stockpiles. "Because China" even though most of our med goods imports come from Canada/Mexico/EU. If true, a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

@TerryMcAuliffe @ReilySeanConn @realDonaldTrump

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@FreeTradeBryan

10 months

Fortunately we don’t live in Communist China and the government can’t block a voluntary, mutually beneficial private transaction except in rare cases, like where there is a legitimate national security threat. Say no to elected officials who want CCP-like economic power.

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@SenFettermanPA

10 months

The acquisition of @U_S_Steel by a foreign company is wrong for workers and wrong for Pennsylvania. I’m gonna do everything I can to block it.

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 year

Oh no

Fleetwoodzac76

@Fleetwoodzac76

1 year

@shicks_sam @RyanGirdusky Compare pictures of Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary Indiana and hundreds of small towns in the 60s/70s compared to today. It's not only fraudulent but treasonous.

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 months

Uhhhh…..

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@FreeTradeBryan

2 months

The infant formula shortage was pretty much entirely caused by the government’s refusal to let families buy formula from Europe. What a weird tweet. H/T @DanielDiMartino

Lina Khan

@linakhanFTC

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2. Concentrating production can concentrate risk, so that a single natural disaster or disruption has cascading effects. This fragility has contributed to shortages in areas ranging from IV bags to infant formula.

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

Q, @RepCindyAxne : "So are tariffs a tax on imports?" A. @USTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin: "Tariffs are a tariff on imports, they are not a tax." @RepCindyAxne : "Tariffs are a tax on imports." h/t @scottlincicome

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@FreeTradeBryan

3 years

@profmusgrave He should have had his mom or dad graduate from one of those

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

President Trump says zero tariff deal with EU is bad idea because they will never buy Chevrolets. GM sold 595,000 cars in Europe in 2017. BMW and Mercedes exported > 150,000 cars from US to Europe last year.

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 month

Import taxes inflate back-to-school prices

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@FreeTradeBryan

2 months

@oren_cass 1. U.S. imposes tariffs (paid by U.S. taxpayers according to nearly every analysis) 2. Imports fall 3. Foreign countries retaliate with tariffs on U.S. exports 4. U.S. exports fall

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@FreeTradeBryan

10 days

Fixed it. No charge.

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@FreeTradeBryan

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@Acyn I thought it was going to be used to pay for child care. I mean to pay farmers. I mean for a sovereign wealth fund. I mean to replace the individual income tax. I mean to pay for the wall. I mean…

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@FreeTradeBryan

8 months

Thank you @NikkiHaley

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

8 months

Donald Trump wants to tax every American with a 10% across-the-board tariff, costing families an average of $2,600 a year. They’re already paying skyrocketing prices thanks to Biden and Trump’s inflation. We can’t afford this.

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@FreeTradeBryan

29 days

Re: “And then, as the United States dropped its own trade barriers and welcomed China into the World Trade Organization, U.S. manufacturing collapsed”

Oren Cass

@oren_cass

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"The telltale hobgoblin," I write, "is an absurd level of macroeconomic abstraction that disconnects the claim from any real-world experience of market forces and transactions." Read the whole thing:

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 year

Trump's proposed 10% tariff ring around the U.S. economy would mostly hit imports from our friends/allies (and would be paid for by American taxpayers) @NTU

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

FINALLY someone is standing up to Mexicans for unfairly selling Americans low-priced tomatoes that we want to buy. Wait, that doesn't make any sense

U.S. to impose tariffs on Mexican tomatoes as new pact remains elusive

The United States will impose a 17.5 percent tariff on Mexican tomato imports starting on Tuesday, as the two countries were unable to renew a 2013 agreement that suspended a U.S. anti-dumping...

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

@GOPChairwoman @realDonaldTrump To be fair she probably didn't have room to include the rest of her statement: "Except for his big-government command-and-control trade policies."

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

1983 G7 Williamsburg Declaration: "We commit ourselves to halt protectionism, and as recovery proceeds to reverse it by dismantling trade barriers." Pierre Trudeau, Gaston Thorn, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Reagan, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Margaret Thatcher and Amintore Fanfani.

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@FreeTradeBryan

2 years

I can't believe this even needs to be explained. But I'm glad @mattyglesias has taken the time to do so.

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@FreeTradeBryan

13 days

@Esqueer_ If you slow it down to the slowest setting you can pretty clearly see his lips make an "m" shape, they do are not open for an "n" sound. What is wrong with everybody? And he is defending the Haitians by the way. Click on the "gear" icon, change the speed to "0.25x" and see what

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Churchill: “How absurd it is continually to employ the language of war, and the metaphors of war, in relation to the peaceful transactions of commerce!”

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Possible Wikileaks discovery of White House trade strategy flowchart

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 month

@scottlincicome In a normal world, the GOP would obliterate the Biden administration for this despicable protectionist action.

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Wow!

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

President Reagan explains trade economics. 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Excerpted from 1985 news conference posted by @Reagan_Library @ronaldreagan40

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

I'm not endorsing this, but if they rename the Trans Pacific Partnership the Anti-China Partnership, or something along those lines but more clever, pretty much every member of Congress will vote to join.

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

William Nordhaus: "The Trump Theory of Trade has 4 strands at variance w/modern economic analysis: overlooking the gains from trade, focusing on the trade deficit, ignoring the changing nature of trade, and disdaining the need for cooperation in international affairs."

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 months

Turns out the small-business leader was right about NAFTA in 1993 (her company, @turtlefur , is going strong) and Bernie Sanders was wrong. Surprise!

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Peter Navarro then and now. Then: China won’t retaliate against us. Now: China is trying to bully us by retaliating against us.

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

Reagan "Some claim our trade deficit has cost us millions of jobs...but look at the facts" clip from @ronaldreagan40

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@FreeTradeBryan

3 years

List: 9 self-destructive U.S. trade policies. The damage inflicted by these unfair domestic policies far exceeds the damage caused by allegedly unfair foreign trade practices. (Please reply with more suggestions!)

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 months

🧵10 things to know about Biden's import tax increase. 1. The tariffs break Biden’s promise not to increase taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000.

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

@dandrezner There’s no place like home, due to the pandemic

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 year

counterpoint: "China doesn't pay the tariff. The buyer pays the tariff."

Debate: 6th Republican Presidential Candidate Debate - January 14,...

Emotion subtitles enabled (info below).Transcript and analysis: https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-sixth-gop-debate-january-14-2016/The sixth GOP Repu...

www.youtube.com

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio

2 years

Lifting tariffs on #China will not lower the price of anything but it will reward a communist government that steals American jobs through cheating & lies

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

Sen. Toomey just now: the strength of our economy was not because of tariffs, it was because of free trade. @SenToomey

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

Thread: JFK on imports, 1/25/1962: "The American consumer benefits most of all from an increase in foreign trade. Imports give him a wider choice of products at competitive prices. They introduce new ideas and new tastes, which often lead to new demands for American production."

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@FreeTradeBryan

3 years

Tweets today are all Uruguay Round/WTO-related.

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

Happy BDay #RonaldReagan "...the future belongs to those who lower trade barriers. These are the countries that will be in the forefront of technology. These are the countries that will see their living standards rise. And these are the countries that will lead the world."

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

Yesterday I heard some union lobbyist claim NAFTA wiped out US auto manufacturing. In Jan 1990, there were 975,500 US auto manufacturing jobs, according to @USDOL stats. In September 2019, there were..wait for it... 988,600 U.S. auto manufacturing jobs. But wait there's more!

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

Reminder to Sen. Hawley, I will donate $500 to his favorite charity if he can name a single academic study showing net US job loss due to trade with China.

Josh Hawley

@HawleyMO

4 years

Reading the comments of the pro- #China caucus is endless entertainment. How could the NYT ever publish something questioning elite opinion! It’s an outrage. Meanwhile, the FACT is that multiple studies have shown US has lost millions of jobs to China since its entry into WTO

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 months

Bless his heart. If you invent something you should make it and sell it wherever in the world you want to.

President Biden

@POTUS

6 months

If we invent it in America, we should make it in America and invest in all of America.

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@FreeTradeBryan

8 years

Free trade has lifted the human race to levels previously unimaginable says @DanielJHannan @Heritage

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@FreeTradeBryan

6 years

I wish some reporter would ask President Trump, "Are you aware that Canada's tariffs are lower than ours?" or "What did Canada say when Lighthizer offered to get rid of US sugar program if they would get rid of their dairy program? Oh, he didn't, why not?"

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@FreeTradeBryan

4 years

Disappointed that @SenToomey will not be running for reelection, but wish more representatives would be willing to walk away from office. Sen. Toomey stood up for taxpayers by opposing regressive tariffs.

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@FreeTradeBryan

3 months

Dad would have been 84 today. Taught me the difference between dividing the pie and growing the pie so everyone is better off, among many other things. HBD!

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@FreeTradeBryan

2 months

Shocking to hear some Republicans attack NAFTA last night, an agreement launched in Ronald Reagan's 1980 run for president (text attached), largely negotiated under Republican George H.W. Bush, and approved by large majorities of Republicans in the House and Senate.

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@FreeTradeBryan

7 years

Sugar accounted for 1.7% of US crop production, 27.5% of crop industry political donations, and 51.6% of crop industry lobbying in 2016.

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

Holy cow look at how much more American companies have to pay for steel compared to their competitors! How many of them must be looking to relocate outside the U.S.? Via SteelBenchmarker yesterday

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 year

While the Biden administration claims to be pursuing a worker-centered trade policy, it has done nothing to reduce the burden of import taxes on America’s working families.

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@FreeTradeBryan

1 month

The idea that tariffs only affect consumption goods is based on a rather simple-minded understanding of trade.

Michael Pettis

@michaelxpettis

1 month

1/8 The Cato Institute is right to say that domestic consumers pay for tariffs, but they then make the mistake of concluding that tariffs reduce consumption. This claim is based on a rather simple-minded understanding of trade. via @CatoInstitute

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@FreeTradeBryan

5 years

LOL @realDonaldTrump "From the year 2001 when China joined the WTO, which was by the way a disaster, until the year 2016, the United States lost more than 60,000 factories, and millions and millions of jobs." Attached: US manufacturing output and US jobs 2001-2018.

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