Marco Rubio is visiting Mexico and Ecuador this week, his third visit as Secretary of State to Latin America. While his sojourn in Mexico is likely to grab the most headlines given all the attention the Trump administration has devoted to immigration and Mexican drug cartels, the one to Ecuador is primarily designed to “counter malign extra continental actors,” according to a State Department press release.The reference appears to be China, an increasingly important trading and investment...| Responsible Statecraft
The economic, free-trade leg of Reagan's stool cut the others out and toppled the coalition. It's we return to authentic economic conservatism.| Chronicles
A renegotiated NAFTA that satisfies Trump would benefit the U.S. -- but only its abrogation would benefit most Canadians.| Columns Archives – The Independent
Reading Time: 3minutes As NATO secretary general Mark Rutte sat quietly beside U.S. president Donald Trump in an Oval Office press conference March 13, the president declared that Canada, a key NATO nation, should willingly submit to American dominance. The post Lutnick suggests U.S. to eventually make new bilateral trade deals appeared first on Country Guide.| Country GuideOpinion, Agriculture News & Resources - Country Guide
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently declared that, “Canada is the most European of non-European countries.” With Chile, Argentina and Australia (among many others) likely to object to such a characterization, Peter Shawn Taylor’s counterclaim that Canada is the “most U.S. of all non-U.S. countries” seems a much safer bet, given the centuries of shared history, geography, culture and trade. In this latest installment of C2C Journal’s Restoring Canada Special Series, Taylor examines...| C2C Journal
The lesson from Baghdad to Buffalo is the same: If you don't fix the fundamentals, no amount of tariff tinkering will bring back prosperity.| Reason.com
President Donald Trump's reckless tariff policies are threatening to drive the economy into a ditch—and Congress just made it harder to take away the| Reason.com
Trade has made onetime luxury items common and, yes, ‘cheap’—while raising living standards along the way.| The Dispatch
On February 25, President Donald Trump announced that on March 4, new tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico will go into effect.| Close Up Foundation
The trade war is a metastasis of big government, and Canada is wrong to respond to it by empowering government at the expense of individuals| Double Aspect
Anyone advocating neoliberal policies is now persona non grata in Washington, D.C.| Reason.com
Qualcomm went to Washington, D.C. this week to push for better trade and IP protection for the tech industry.| Internet News