{"id":184,"date":"2003-11-19T17:25:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T22:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/trade_position_clarified\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T22:25:01","slug":"trade_position_clarified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/trade_position_clarified\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Position Clarified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2003\/11\/19\/us_wants_free_trade_despite_china_quotas\/\">This makes sense<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States on Wednesday insisted it remains committed to free trade despite new quotas on some clothing from China, a move that angered Beijing and apparently led to the suspension of large U.S. farm commodity purchases by China.<br \/>\nGrowing tensions between the two trading partners were evident a day after the United States unveiled the quotas, with a delegation of Chinese wheat buyers postponing a trip to the United States planned for late November or early December.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;The administration is committed to free trade,&#8221; U.S. National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters traveling with Bush in London.<br \/>\nHowever, McCormack also said the United States was intent on &#8220;fully enforcing our trade laws,&#8221; an apparent reference to a U.S.-China trade arrangement that allows Washington to set &#8220;safeguards&#8221; against import surges of specific goods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course.  We support the free flow of goods, except for the goods we&#8217;re going to restrict.  Glad we cleared that up.<br \/>\nSeriously, there&#8217;s got to be a number of administration officials who have about had it with bizarre marriage between electoral politics and economic theory in current U.S. trade policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/trade_position_clarified\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Trade Position Clarified\"><p>This makes sense: The United States on Wednesday insisted it remains committed to free trade despite new quotas on some clothing from China, a move that angered Beijing and apparently led to the suspension of large U.S. farm commodity purchases by China. Growing tensions between the two trading partners were evident a day after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}