Trade Cases
July 12, 2017
Who Said There Was Anything Fair About Trade?
Written by Sandy Williams
This commentary by Daniel Pearson appeared in the June 2017 issue of The Conservative and is reprinted with permission. Daniel Pearson is with the Cato Institute where he is a trade specialist. Mr. Pearson is also the former chairman of the International Trade Commission (ITC). He will be one of our speakers at this year’s SMU Steel Summit Conference at the end of August.
Donald Trump has repeatedly emphasized his preference for “fair trade” while casting doubt on the desirability of “free trade.” In his address to a joint session of Congress on 27 February, the president said: “I believe strongly in free trade, but it also has to be fair trade. It’s been a long time since we had fair trade.”
