Trade Policy Analyst

Colin Grabow

1 article 2018

Colin Grabow is a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute, where he focuses on economic protectionism, free trade, and maritime policy issues. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2018, writing about the Republican Party's shifting stance on free trade.

Didn't Republicans Use to Believe in Free Trade?

January 9, 2018 · Tariffs, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump

While U.S. politics have witnessed any number of distressing trends in recent years, one of the more disturbing is the decline in support among Republicans for free trade. The rise of Donald Trump, who regularly blamed American economic ills on China and trade deals such as the North American Free…