Trade Cases
March 8, 2016
AEI: Tariffs on Chinese Imports Will Punish US Manufacturers
Written by Sandy Williams
The following is a reprint of an article by Dr. Mark J. Perry in response to the Wall Street Journal article about the duties imposed on imports of cold-rolled steel from China that SMU publisher John Packard was quoted in. Dr. Perry is a Scholar at The American Enterprise Institute and Professor of Finance and Business Economics, School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint. (Mark.Perry@AEI.org)
An article in the WSJ last week (“U.S. Imposes 266% Duty on Some Chinese Steel Imports“) inspired Don Boudreaux to write a post on Cafe Hayek titled “A Neighborhood Tale.” That same WSJ report inspired me to re-write that article from a pro-consumer, anti-protectionist, anti-corporate welfare viewpoint as a counterpoint to the WSJ article’s typical pro-producer, pro-crony capitalism, pro-protectionist, pro-tariff perspective. Here’s my pro-consumer re-write:
