Gavin Bade
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Trade and economics reporter, @WSJ. Bari sax, @futurebanddc. Michigander, DC resident, Georgetown Hoya, #LFC, #DontMuteDC. DM open.
District of Columbia, USA
Joined September 2011
Hey everyone! Today is my first day at the Wall Street Journal covering all things trade and international economic policy. Tips to Gavin.Bade@wsj.com or DM me here. Talk soon!
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SCOOP: Trump privately spoke with his former impeachment attorney Alan Dershowitz about potentially being president for a THIRD term. Dershowitz presented Trump a draft of his upcoming book called "Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?" They discussed
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Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question.
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Greer's opening statement to lawmakers — just posted— appears to bear this reporting out
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NEW: USTR Greer told lawmakers this week he is supportive of USMCA and did NOT raise the prospect of withdrawing from the three-nation pact, according to over a dozen House and Senate members who attended closed-door meetings with the US trade chief
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Don't expect those tariff rebate checks anytime soon — at least not from Congress
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Italy’s biggest pasta exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in the U.S. too costly https://t.co/ZJtPbb8lCN via @WSJ by @margheritamvs and @GavinBade
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The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
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President Trump’s global tariffs ran headlong into a skeptical Supreme Court on Wednesday https://t.co/Ivi4SgdQms w/@GavinBade
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The prospect of a loss by the administration raises questions about the president’s alternatives—and what happens to money that has already been collected.
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The Long Road to a U.S.-China Trade Pact—Trump administration had for months been reluctant to reduce America’s fentanyl-based tariffs @GavinBade @Lingling_Wei
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The Trump administration had for months been reluctant to reduce America’s fentanyl-based tariffs on Beijing.
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U.S. would cut in half the 20% fentanyl tariffs on China, potentially bringing tariff on China to 45%. That would put China’s tariff rate closer to those of other trading partners and increase direct US/CHINA trade with @hannahmiao_ @GavinBade
https://t.co/MmdRpsszub via @WSJ
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If Beijing takes action to cut the export of chemicals that make fentanyl, the U.S. would cut in half the 20% fentanyl-related levies on Chinese goods.
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NEW: US, China to discuss 10% reduction in Trump’s tariffs based on fentanyl in leaders’ meeting on Thursday Huge exclusive from @Lingling_Wei, @hannahmiao_ with a hand from me
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Live at 8! Tune in!
Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) trade and economic policy reporter @GavinBade discusses Trump administration trade and tariffs agenda, including recent trade tensions with China. Watch live at 8:00am ET!
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Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) trade and economic policy reporter @GavinBade discusses Trump administration trade and tariffs agenda, including recent trade tensions with China. Watch live at 8:00am ET!
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FOLKS! This account (with an underscore in the handle) is NOT ME. Please don’t respond to any of its messages and do block and report it!
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Both China and US have vacillated between tough talk and de-escalation in recent days, but the rhetoric took a harder turn Tue. In the latest standoff, Beijing believes it has found US’s Achilles’ heel: Trump’s fixation on the market. W/@GavinBade
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping thinks the president will fold before launching new tariffs that would roil markets.
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NEW: Trump changed course to a more deescalatory tone versus China as he discussed with aides ways to say something publicly that could halt the market drop Trump spoke with Treasury Secretary Bessent about such a message. W/@Lingling_Wei @GavinBade
https://t.co/MOx0LPilNY
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SCOOP: Trump not planning to tariff generic drugs, White House says. Major scaling-back of the Section 232 probe on pharmaceuticals, and reversal of a campaign pledge. Decision caps months of debate in admin, with Domestic Policy Council staff cautioning against tariffs
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NEW: President Trump + his team are considering using $550 billion provided through the trade deal w/ Japan as a way to reignite U.S. manufacturing. Trump has dreamed of a U.S. manufacturing comeback- this could be how he tries to do it. W/ @GavinBade
https://t.co/LnrXzjWTd6
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Discussions center on how to use money from a $550 billion fund to spur the construction of factories and other infrastructure in the U.S.
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