Tag: Free trade
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Costco v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection: A Legal Challenge to Presidential Tariff Authority
Costco has filed a major lawsuit challenging President Trump’s 2025 tariffs as unconstitutional and unauthorized by law. This detailed legal analysis explains how the case tests whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) gives presidents authority to impose tariffs, or whether that power belongs exclusively to Congress. With two federal courts already ruling these…
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Evaluation of “Trump Has The Power To Impose Tariffs Via IEEPA”
Peter Navarro argues that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act implicitly authorizes presidential tariffs because the power to “regulate importation” naturally includes tariffs, the traditional tool for controlling trade, and because presidents who can ban imports entirely should also be able to impose the lesser measure of taxing them. The article’s thesis is that IEEPA…
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Supreme Court Hears Historic Arguments on Trump Tariffs: Can Presidents Tax Without Congress?
Can a president tax Americans without Congress? The Supreme Court just heard explosive arguments on Trump’s tariffs – with justices asking if a future president could declare a climate emergency to impose massive taxes. One justice called it a “one-way ratchet” where Congress would never get its constitutional power back. The stakes: trillions in trade…
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The Employment and Wage Effects of Trump’s Steel Tariffs
Research on the Trump administration’s 2018-2020 steel tariffs reveals significant negative net employment effects despite modest gains in steel production jobs. While steel workers experienced some wage increases, the broader economic impact included substantial job losses in steel-using industries and higher costs for consumers.
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Trump’s Tariffs Make Absolutely No Sense
Jason Furman argues that Donald Trump’s proposed “reciprocal tariffs” are based on flawed economic reasoning and would damage the U.S. economy, worsen global trade relations, and ultimately empower China.
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It’s Time to End the Trump-Biden Trade War with China
This article discusses the ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, which began during the Trump administration and continued under President Biden.
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Tariffs, after all, are paid by Americans
Action taken in April by President Donald J. Trump confirms: The tariffs he imposed on China are paid by Americans.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Congressman Ron Estes
United States Representative Ron Estes discusses trade, FAA reauthorization and his amendment, entitlement reform, and spending.
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Kansas benefits from foreign trade
The Kansas economy benefits greatly from foreign trade, and we should oppose restrictions on trade, writes Bryan Riley of Heritage Foundation.
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Free trade is important, but may be in peril
Robert E. Litan, a lawyer and economist and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations spoke on “The Future of Trade Policy” before a luncheon at the Wichita Pachyderm Club August 5, 2016.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Heritage Foundation’s Bryan Riley on free trade
Foreign trade is an important issue in this year’s presidential campaign. Heritage Foundation economist and Senior Policy Analyst Bryan Riley explains concepts that voters can use in making an informed decision.
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The candlemakers’ petition
The arguments presented in the following essay by Frederic Bastiat, written in 1845, are still in use in city halls, county courthouses, school district boardrooms, state capitals, and probably most prominently, Washington