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Imports work for U.S. jobs
MIT Technology Review: Could Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels Do More Harm than Good? (March 2012)
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: The U.S. Content of “Made in China” (August 2011)
Kraemer, Linder, and Dedrick: Capturing Value in Global Networks: Apple’s iPad and iPhone (July 2011)
Business Roundtable: Trade and American Jobs – Impact of Trade on U.S. and State-Level Employment: An Update (July 2010)
IWPA: Imported Woods: A Key Ingredient to American Jobs and Value Creation
Imports work for American familiesHeritage: Give Shoe Taxes the Boot (April 2012)
Heritage: The U.S. Sugar Program: Bad for Consumers, Bad for Agriculture, and Bad for America (April 2012)
AAFA: Happy Double Tax Day (April 2012)
Cato: How Imports Raise Real Incomes (June 2010)
Imports work for U.S. manufacturing
U.S. Manufacturing and the Importance of International Trade: It’s Not What You Think by Kevin L. Kliesen and John A. Tatom (January/February 2013)
American Companies and Global Supply Networks: Driving U.S. Economic Growth and Jobs by Connecting with the World by Matthew Slaughter (December 2012)
Misguided Misgivings About the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (May 2012)
Global Trade Magazine: Free the Free Trade Zone (March/April 2012)
Inbound Logistics: Getting in the Zone: FTZs Fuel Improved Logistics (March 2012)
Rushford Report: Made Where? (March 2012)
Rushford Report: Made in America? (February 2012)
Renew GSP Today: Blog Posts on GSP and Manufacturing (October 2011)
Cato: A Tariff-Reduction Plan for U.S. Jobs (September 2011)
Coalition for GSP: Fact Sheet on GSP and Manufacturing (August 2011)
Cato: Economic Self-Flagellation: How U.S. Antidumping Policy Subverts the National Export Initiative (May 2011)
OECD: Imports: Improving Productivity and Competitiveness (May 2010)
Economic Impact of the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Report (July 2009)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Estimated Impact of the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences to U.S. Industry and Consumers (November 2006)
Imports work for economic development
Heritage: How the U.S. Can Support Free Trade in the Philippines (April 2012)
YaleGlobal: Slowly, But Surely, Trade Erodes Global Poverty (November 2011)
OECD: Trade and the Recovery: Why Open Markets Matter (May 2010)
Cato: Crash Course in Global Economics (September 2009)
General studies
U.S. International Trade Commission: The Economic Effects of Significant U.S. Import Restraints (August 2011)
Cato: Beyond Exports: A Better Case for Free Trade (January 2011)
U.S. International Trade Commission: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Characteristics and Performance (November 2010)
Peterson Institute for International Economics: The Payoff from Globalization (June 2005)
