Chicken feet, rubber tires, and the rule of law in international trade

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by Katherine Mangu-Ward

Katherine Mangu-Ward is a senior editor at Reason magazine.

In a non-response response to the U.S. tire tariff announcement, China happens to have made an announcement this week about plans for tariffs on U.S. chicken and auto parts coming into China. "Chickens are a longstanding issue in Sino-American trade relations," The New York Times reported, employing what was likely the best sentence in Monday's paper. (Fun fact: Apparently, the massive bulk of white-meat heavy American chickens means that they have particularly large and succulent feet—a culinary favorite in China.)

“The trade decision was the president’s first down payment on his promise to more effectively enforce trade laws, and it’s very much appreciated,” AFL-CIO chief economist Thea Lee said of the Obama administration's Friday decision to slap a 35 percent tariff on tires from China.

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