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<\/a><\/p>\nKevin Gallagher<\/a>, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the\u00a0<\/span>Global Development Policy Center<\/a>\u00a0at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0published a widely-syndicated Op-Ed examining\u00a0the tariffs United States President Donald Trump will impose\u00a0on imports from the nation\u2019s best customers.<\/span><\/p>\n Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “Trade Rules Are Deeply Flawed But Trump\u2019s Tariff Fixation Is Hurting America And The Rest Of The World,<\/a>” was originally published in\u00a0The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on July 6, 2018. It was subsequently published in various publications including\u00a0My Plainview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n From the text of the Op-Ed:<\/p>\n There\u2019s no end in sight to the tariffs President Donald Trump will impose on imports from the nation\u2019s best customers.<\/p>\n He has hiked tariffs on goods and services from China, Canada, Mexico, Europe and beyond, prompting a wave of retaliation in kind that is sure to crimp American exports of everything from pork and soy beans to synthesizers.<\/p>\n The tweeter-in-chief has even speculated that tariffs alone perhaps could raise enough revenue to fund the government and ditch the income taxes he recently slashed altogether. And Trump is reportedly mulling whether to quit the World Trade Organization\u2013 the global body that governs world trade \u2013 rather than follow its rules regarding tariffs.<\/p>\n Having studied the globalization of trade, finance and investment for over two decades, I agree with Trump that international trade rules are unfair. Even so, I believe Trump\u2019s tariff-centric trade policies are a raw deal that won\u2019t fix what\u2019s broken about the global trading system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0served on the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Investment Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the International Investment Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.\u00a0 He has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China; and the Center for State and Society in Argentina. You can<\/span>\u00a0follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/span>@KevinPGallagher<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GDP Center Director Kevin Gallagher published an Op-Ed on the tariffs President Donald Trump will impose\u00a0on imports from the nation\u2019s best customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[10745,9545,8859,1362,10829,8564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33931,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33919\/revisions\/33931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}