A DISTRESSING AMOUNT of deliberate amnesia swirls around American trade policy these days—affecting not only the two men cynically pandering to voters in the presidential race, but also the experts who really ought to know better.
“I think that link, in terms of tariffs to prices, has been largely debunked,” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told reporters during a mid-May press conference at the White House.
Tai later walked back
