Tariff cuts


Blokes make cars, women make clothes … guess who wins

Two industries, two vastly different amounts of protectionism, Bernard Keane reports.

Cutting tariffs: short-term pain, long-term gain

Cutting tariffs below their current levels will of course harm the car industry. That’s actually how tariff cuts have helped economic growth in the last decade – by slowly moving resources from lower productivity industries to higher productivity industries, writes Nick Gruen.