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This is not about enforcing trade agreements

Simon Lester has lots of coverage of the Obama administration’s Chinese tire tariffs. The key point to remember is that China has not violated a trade agreement; the US government is electing to impose tariffs that are available thanks to a safeguard clause in China’s WTO accession agreement.

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This entry was posted in Protectionism on 15 September 2009 by jdingel.

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