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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Manufacturing jobs fall as Pres. Trump’s cost-raising policies (tariffs on inputs & deportations of workers) begin to work as expected 🤷‍♂️

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Price hikes aren’t the only way to pass on the tariffs to American consumers 👇 >Levi Strauss will limit items for holiday shopping season • Limiting selection should mitigate tariff costs, protect margins • Strategy has been used by other brands including Hasbro, Nike

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

.📣 @ChrisGiles_ 👉 “there was a 16 per cent drop in services exports to the EU in sectors where Brexit imposed new trade frictions “

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

✍️ @rbrtrmstrng “Ninety deals in 90, no wait, 113 days, and we’re serious this time” 👉 The deadline, to absolutely no one’s surprise, was no deadline at all.

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Talking my eBook "The Great Trade Hack" on CNN International! video.snapstream.net/Play/1Cje19... @IMD_Bschool @cepr_org

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This is why markets look through Trump‘s tariff announcements 🎩 @martinwolf_

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Today is TACO Tuesday! 👉 As predicted in June, Trump chickened out (he lowered tariff rates and postponed his postponement)! 👉GDP growth slowly, inflation rising. He couldn't risk carrying through with his 2 April 2025 tariffs.

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Do you think Donald Trump views yesterday tiff announcements as a huge success?

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Why did President Trump chicken out yesterday on the deadline (pushed to 1 August) and on the rates (substantially reduced)? 👉 Because tariffs are pushing up retail prices; that can't be good for his base.

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trump trade advisors super MAGA! (not). ➡️Apart from Navarro, all more moderate on trade than Trump himself.

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Trade nerds! Famous 1976 handwritten paper where Victor Norman anticipates the new trade theory, esp. Helpman-Krugman Heckscher-Ohlin-Krugman fusion. He gave it to me in October 1997 in Bergen. See full story (amazing) in my Factful Friday from 4 October 2024 lnkd.in/e5Buz3WU

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Did Victor Norman do the New Trade Theory first?

Richard Baldwin, @IMD, 4 October 2024, Factful Friday. Introduction.

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Or just the "last advisor in the room" approach to foreign policy? His tariff numbers seem to come from a random number generator, so why not his foreign policy?

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Geraldo Vidigal @geraldovidigal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This @baldwinre.bsky.social post is worth reading for those of us thinking about what the 'geopolitical' or 'geoeconomic' turn in international (trade) policy means — and how we can not only understand it but also consider the source of the field's established ideas. www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

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Richard Baldwin on LinkedIn: Is comparative advantage valid in a geopolitical world? | 22 comments

As The Trump Tariff Show, Season 2, is about to start, the age-old principle of Ricardian comparative advantage faces unprecedented scrutiny. Is the classic… | 22 comments on LinkedIn

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Ugo Panizza @upanizza.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Richard Baldwin is on Bluesky. Follow him at @baldwinre.bsky.social

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

YOU DON’T SAY. “A party that had lined up behind Trump’s ‘America First’ policy agenda to end wars, not start them, was also willing to support his expansionist musings.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump’s expansionist designs prompt worried responses from foreign leaders

Donald Trump’s fixation on expanding the nation’s territory has foreign leaders weighing a familiar question: Should they take him seriously? Many are trying.

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Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) @tradediversion.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A lot to chew on in this issue of AEJ: Applied: #econsky

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Douglas Irwin @douglasirwin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You ask a lot of questions, and they're always good ones 😉

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 13/01/2025

In the waning days of the Biden administration, I took one of my last opportunities to comment on U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai's trade policy thoughts (also, I tried to lure her into posting on the IELP blog -- we'll see if she takes me up on it!).

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Katherine Tai on "The Real Purpose of Trade Policy"

As we close in on the end of the Biden administration, I may have fewer opportunities to react to Katherine Tai's thoughts on trade policy. My Katherine Tai tag now has over 60 entries. I've enjoyed w...

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Ugo Panizza @upanizza.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

must read

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Read a couple of the news pieces on UK AI plans which leave me none the wiser about what is actually going to be done, so I guess it will all be in the implementation - but in various fields through my career I've always been concerned by something that can't be easily described.

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Why Trump tariffs will harm US industrial competitiveness 👉Factful Friday rerun! US final good tariffs protect final goods firms but tariffs inputs harm them. 🔗https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps-tariffs-china-harm-us-manufacturing-richard-baldwin-pmmte/?trackingId=Pmct8VMqME8F24k%2F2iz2Sg%3D%3D

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

lnkd.in

Did Victor Norman do the New Trade Theory first?

Richard Baldwin, @IMD, 4 October 2024, Factful Friday. Introduction.

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Richard Baldwin @baldwinre.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Or just the "last advisor in the room" approach to foreign policy? His tariff numbers seem to come from a random number generator, so why not his foreign policy?

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