The Trouble with Tariffs and the Future of Trade

Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute, discusses America’s new regime of high protective tariffs under the Trump and Biden administrations and assesses what may be to come on trade policy under a future Trump or Harris administration. He discusses the overly expansive authorities presidents have to impose tariffs, the weakness of commonly employed national security justifications for them, and the economics of why tariffs fail, among other topics. Show Notes Clark Packard and Scott Lincicome, " Presidential Tariff Powers and the Need for Reform ," Cato Institute Briefing Paper No. 179, October 9, 2024 Scott Lincicome, " Six-Plus Years of Incoherent, Ineffective China Policy ," The Dispatch , October 2, 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You can listen to The Trouble with Tariffs and the Future of Trade online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

The Trouble with Tariffs and the Future of Trade is an episode from Power Problems by The Cato Institute.

This episode is 46:14 long.

This episode was published on Oct 29, 2024.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Power Problems when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.