Trade Cases
February 6, 2018
Is Section 232 About National Security or Protectionism?
Written by Tim Triplett
Editor’s note: Richard Chriss, president of the American Institute for International Steel, which represents foreign steelmakers, offered this rebuttal to a recent letter to the editor in the New York Times by Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing:
There is no single word for the economic fallacy of assuming that those who are adversely affected by a measure will respond as hoped, rather than as should be expected. But one example of this misguided, nearly magical, thinking is protectionism.
