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HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR
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Chad P. Bown
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Chad P. Bown
@ChadBown
Co-Author, How to Win a Trade War (May 2026)
Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, @PIIE. Host, @Trade__Talks
I think about trade and policy. Probably too much
- COVID-19 In 2018, health experts warned Trump. Putting tariffs on medical products would hurt US preparedness for pandemics. He did it anyway. How Trump's tariffs may contribute to shortages at the time of a national health crisis. My latest 1/
- The results are in: China did not buy any of the extra $200 billion of US exports that former President Trump pledged in his "historic" and "momentous" 2020 trade deal. From @washingtonpost Editorial Board:
- In January 2020, former President Donald Trump signed a trade deal that committed China to purchase an additional $200 billion of US exports over 2020-21. The data are now in. In the end, China bought none of that extra $200 billion. My latest, 1/🧵
- How not to lobster. US lobster exports to China have NOT recovered in 2020, despite Trump's Phase One deal 👉🏾piie.com/blogs/trade-an… (Maine lobster lost access to the Chinese market as a result of Trump's trade war.)
00:58How to lobster - BMW says it will build more of its SUVs overseas and NOT IN SOUTH CAROLINA because of China’s retaliation on US autos in response to Trump’s tariffs
- NEW: With two-thirds of 2020 now in the books, China has purchased less than one-third of the US exports Trump pledged it would buy this year under his "historic" Phase One deal. (Official August trade data released today.)
- NEW: With ten months of 2020 now in the books, China has purchased less than half of the US exports Trump pledged it would buy this year under his Phase One deal. (Official October trade data released today.)
- Since Trump entered office, US auto industry has shed 4,000 factory jobs. Economics, not politics, drives employment economist.com/blogs/graphicd…
- So, if we are supposed to start calling it USMCA, then why does the legal text repeatedly refer to it as "NAFTA 2018" ??? 🧐🤔🙄
- Scientists from 13 federal agencies draft a report concluding Americans feel the effects of climate change right now
- 1 of 10/ Trump has made amazing progress getting China to cut its tariffs. Except, China is only cutting its tariffs toward everyone else. This is an underappreciated way that Americans are losing out from Trump's trade war. My latest
