Michael Lind: Why Tariffs Are Good

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Michael Lind: Why Tariffs Are Good

Donald Trump is back—and so is the tariff. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” the president quipped before the joint session of Congress on Tuesday—so beautiful that he referenced tariffs 17 more times in his address. In the short time since his second inauguration on January 20, Trump has imposed—and sometimes walked back or temporarily suspended—tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, and declared a policy of tit-for-tat “reciprocity” or retalia…

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Senator Tereza Cristina (PP-MS) presented this Tuesday (11.Mar.2025) a substitute for the Environmental Reciprocity Bill (nº 2.088/2023), authored by Senator Zequinha Marinho (Podemos-PA), which establishes environmental rules for the import of goods and products in Brazil. Here is the full opinion (PDF – 158 kB). The rapporteur changed the original text to avoid conflicts with WTO (World Trade Organization) rules. Instead of a direct ban on the…

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What began as a national security measure of the United States, by imposing tariffs on Mexico and Canada until these countries took the necessary measures to