Martin Hart-Landsberg

Martin Hart-Landsberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon; and Adjunct Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. His areas of teaching and research include political economy, economic development, international economics, and the political economy of East Asia. He is also a member of the Workers' Rights Board (Portland, Oregon) and maintains a blog, Reports from the Economic Front.

The U.S. – China Tariff Dispute Is Really About Protecting US Global Corporate Dominance

Although the media largely echoes President Trump’s claim that his tariff threats directed at China about trying to reduce the large U.S. trade deficit, the president has a far narrower aim—that is to protect the monopoly position and profits of dominant U.S. corporations.

Martin Hart-Landsberg
By Martin Hart-Landsberg
In this April 12, 2018, photo, a man walks by a billboard displaying a Chinese company developed packaging machinery for local and foreign food and beverage companies at the International soybean exhibition in Shanghai. (AP/Andy Wong)

There is a lot of concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the U.S. In early April, President Trump announced that his administration was considering levying $100 billion of additional tariffs on Chinese exports, after the Chinese government responded to a previously proposed U.S. tariff hike on Chinese goods of $50 billion by

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