Center for Strategic & International Studies: A Democratic Trade Policy Part I
June 02, 2020
June 02, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary by William Alan Reinsch, senior adviser and Scholl chair in International Business:
Trade is a difficult issue for Democrats. That has not always been so. For roughly its first 150 years, the Democratic Party supported low tariffs and free trade. Its voters were largely southern farmers who wanted to export their products and workers who wanted the lower prices and greater choice . . .
Trade is a difficult issue for Democrats. That has not always been so. For roughly its first 150 years, the Democratic Party supported low tariffs and free trade. Its voters were largely southern farmers who wanted to export their products and workers who wanted the lower prices and greater choice . . .