trade policy

Bringing Back Manufacturing: Guns, Drugs, Whisky and Fast Cars

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It’s the 40th anniversary of the end of the miners strike and I went back to Redhills to watch a documentary about the. strike. People who grew up in former mining owns bemoaned the decline of manufacturing and similar industries, and the disappearance of the tight knit communities that grew up around them Thatcher’s period … Read more

Trump’s Tariffs Were Illegal. American Consumers Still Paid the Price.

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The US government is refunding $81bn in tariff payments to importers, following the Supreme Court’s February 2026 ruling that Trump did not have authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose many of his tariffs. Not every business has been repaid: In June alone, about $49.2bn was refunded; May and June together accounted … Read more