CWR > Volume 4(1); 2018 > Correspondence
Research Paper
Published online: March 1, 2018
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/cwr.2018.4.1.06
Trump's Year-One Trade Policies: Belligerent Rhetoric - But Still Unsettled
Stuart Malawer
George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government
3351 Fairfax Dr., MS 3B1, Arlington, Virginia 22201 USA.
Corresponding Author: StuartMalawer@msn.com
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Abstract
It has been one year since President Trump took office. He came to office riding a tide of anti-trade rhetoric as one of the most protectionist candidates ever to have won an election. Most recently, in his first State of the Union Address President Trump directly addressed global trade but only in five surprisingly short sentences. He neither announced any new trade actions, nor lambasted the global trading system or its institutions or specific countries. Interestingly, President Trump seemingly narrowed his concerns primarily to protecting American intellectual property rights through trade enforcement. What can be then be said about the US trade policy after one year of the Trump administration?
Keywords : Trump, Year-One Trade Policy, USTR, Belligerent Rhetoric, TPP, China's WTO Compliance
