No Trade Is Free

Informationen zum Autor Robert Lighthizer served in President Trump's cabinet as the United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021 and was a deputy USTR under President Reagan. He is one of America's most respected experts on international trade, having negotiated dozens of international agreements and practiced trade law for more than forty years. Lighthizer was born in Ohio and now lives in Palm Beach, Florida. Klappentext A former United States Trade Representative?one of the world's foremost experts on trade, economics, and agriculture?explains the global economy's biggest challenges, and how to solve them. As the Trump Administration's U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer took on globalists, nationalists, and big businesses from China, Canada, and Europe whose economic interests diverged from those of America. In The Worst Trade Ever, he shows how America's established approach to global trade has failed in its most basic priorities. Instead of securing good jobs, a solid standard of living, and a promising future for American workers, America's politicians have ceded American technological superiority, infrastructure, and economic stability to competitors like China and Mexico, trading American economic stability and jobs for cheaper consumer goods. We have given nations huge advantages over the U.S., and by enriching multinational corporations at the expense of the well-being of people who don't have college degrees, American trade policy has increased the division between economic classes. As U.S. Trade Representative, Lighthizer worked to undo many of these failed policies and bring balance to the global order. In this book, he explains the current issues involving trade, and what can be done to ensure America's trade policies serve America's interests. Zusammenfassung America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it's too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and editorialized against the failed policies of one-sided free trade as part of both the Reagan and Trump administrations and as a private lawyer. As Trade Representative, he fought against globalists, importers, lobbyists, foreign governments and big businesses whose interests diverged from those of the American workers. For decades, unbalanced free trade was the preferred option for the most powerful in Washington, and millions of ordinary Americans paid the price. Instead of prioritizing healthy American communities, good jobs, higher wages, and a promising future for our workers, Washington too often cared more about corporate profits, cheap imports and the concerns of foreign governments, including the Chinese. In return, we got cheaper coffee makers and tee shirts, while thousands of factories closed, wages stagnated, communities deteriorated, economic inequality rose in our country, and we racked up trillions of dollars in trade deficits. Part memoir, part history, and part policy analysis , No Trade is Free tells the story of how America found itself at this point and how the Trump administration took on the orthodoxy of the trade establishment, with astonishing results. With in-depth character sketches of some of the most important leaders of our timefrom Donald Trump, to Xi Jinping, to Nancy Pelosi, to Andrés Manuel López ObradorLighthizer explains how trade negotiations actually work and why leverage is the key to successno trade is free. This book is a wake-up call to our politicians, thought leaders, but most importantly, everyday Americans. It presents the case against the policies that have weakened America and left our families and communities behind. ...

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Robert Lighthizer served in President Trump’s cabinet as the United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021 and was a deputy USTR under President Reagan. He is one of America’s most respected experts on international trade, having negotiated dozens of international agreements and practiced trade law for more than forty years. Lighthizer was born in Ohio and now lives in Palm Beach, Florida.

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A former United States Trade Representative?one of the world's foremost experts on trade, economics, and agriculture?explains the global economy's biggest challenges, and how to solve them.

As the Trump Administration's U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer took on globalists, nationalists, and big businesses from China, Canada, and Europe whose economic interests diverged from those of America. In The Worst Trade Ever, he shows how America's established approach to global trade has failed in its most basic priorities.

Instead of securing good jobs, a solid standard of living, and a promising future for American workers, America's politicians have ceded American technological superiority, infrastructure, and economic stability to competitors like China and Mexico, trading American economic stability and jobs for cheaper consumer goods. We have given nations huge advantages over the U.S., and by enriching multinational corporations at the expense of the well-being of people who don't have college degrees, American trade policy has increased the division between economic classes.

As U.S. Trade Representative, Lighthizer worked to undo many of these failed policies and bring balance to the global order. In this book, he explains the current issues involving trade, and what can be done to ensure America's trade policies serve America's interests.

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America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late.

One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and editorialized against the failed policies of one-sided free trade as part of both the Reagan and Trump administrations and as a private lawyer. As Trade Representative, he fought against globalists, importers, lobbyists, foreign governments and big businesses whose interests diverged from those of the American workers.

For decades, unbalanced “free” trade was the preferred option for the most powerful in Washington, and millions of ordinary Americans paid the price. Instead of prioritizing healthy American communities, good jobs, higher wages, and a promising future for our workers, Washington too often cared more about corporate profits, cheap imports and the concerns of foreign governments, including the Chinese. In return, we got cheaper coffee makers and tee shirts, while thousands of factories closed, wages stagnated, communities deteriorated, economic inequality rose in our country, and we racked up trillions of dollars in trade deficits.

Part memoir, part history, and part policy analysis, No Trade is Free tells the story of how America found itself at this point and how the Trump administration took on the orthodoxy of the trade establishment, with astonishing results. With in-depth character sketches of some of the most important leaders of our time—from Donald Trump, to Xi Jinping, to Nancy Pelosi, to Andrés Manuel López Obrador—Lighthizer explains how trade negotiations actually work and why leverage is the key to success—no trade is free.

This book is a wake-up call to our politicians, thought leaders, but most importantly, everyday Americans. It presents the case against the policies that have weakened America and left our families and communities behind. It argues for a worker-focused trade policy. It tells the story of our fight for every American job and how for the first time, a US administration t…