By Lori Wallach, Rethink Trade Director The electric vehicle (EV) consumer tax credit and related production support in the Inflation Reduction Act are the most likely-to-succeed and most carefully designed-to-purpose industrial policy tools that the Biden administration has created as part of its ambitious project to rebuild a more resilient…

IPEF Ministerial happening now in Los Angeles 9/8–9 — By Lori Wallach, Rethink Trade Director Just to get past the acronym Hell, IPEF = Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. But what IPEF is — or will be or could be — remains entirely unclear. Maybe we will know more after this week’s Los Angeles meeting of cabinet-level officials from the 14…

By Daniel Rangel, Rethink Trade Research Director — Will the Biden administration seize the moment to fix decades of bad policy and bad blood with its Latin American neighbors by using the Americas Partnership for Prosperity (APEP) process? With a new wave of progressive leaders in Latin America and U.S. public zeal for a new approach on trade…

By Lori Wallach, Rethink Trade Director We may be over COVID, but it’s not done with us… That’s because ongoing outbreaks means a more deadly global variant is just a few mutations away. And, globally billions of people still have no access to COVID vaccines. …

House COMPETES Act Trade Terms Benefit U.S. Workers and Competitiveness, Those in Senate USICA Would Make U.S. More Reliant on China — In March, I warned the “biggest trade vote you’ve never heard about” was coming. Well, this week the House and Senate are supposed to start reconciling wildly different versions of that China legislation. And the stakes are high. The simplest way to think about this may be via Dr. Doolittle’s…

We kicked off last month with the inspiring news of Tridonex workers’ win against one of the most powerful sham unions in northern Mexico. In spite of years of firings, beatings and harassment, which included the incarceration of lawyer and labor leader Susana Prieto Terrazas, on February 28 workers at…

I took a look at the actual data underlying various arguments about what can be done to cut inflation — aka rising prices. So, here’s something some economists apparently did not check out before suggesting that cutting U.S. tariffs on China could bring down prices: There’s no correlation between tariffs…

Too bad there is no waiver of any Big Pharma intellectual property (IP) monopolies at all despite yesterday’s afternoon tweet from a Politico reporter about a “TRIPS waiver compromise.” People were ready to celebrate progress after a 17-month fight to remove World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property barriers that undermine…

by Daniel Rangel After an eventful 36-hour trip, which included a nail-biting 18-hour union vote after a missed flight and a high-speed drive along one of Mexico’s most dangerous roads, I started to write this entry from Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The industrial city on the Mexican-U.S. …