Biden’s China Tariffs Are the End of an Era for Cheap Chinese Goods
The president’s move to protect strategic manufacturing sectors from low-cost competition aims to increase jobs, but consumers might not like the costs.
By Jim Tankersley
I write about the Biden administration’s economic policies and how those policies affect the country and the world. I cover the president at international economic summits, track his negotiations with lawmakers in Congress and explain how his top advisers are debating key economic issues. I am particularly focused on investigating the effects of Mr. Biden’s industrial policy agenda, which is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to promote advanced domestic manufacturing and the deployment of low-emission energy technologies to fight climate change.
I have covered economic policy in Washington for more than a dozen years, with a focus on the stagnation of the American middle class and the decline of economic opportunity in wide swaths of the country. I am the author of a book about those themes: “The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’s Middle Class,” published in 2020.
Earlier in my career, I worked at newspapers including The Oregonian, the Rocky Mountain News, The Blade (in Toledo, Ohio) and The Washington Post. In 2007, a colleague and I won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of stories exploring why the Ohio economy declined drastically over the course of a generation.
I grew up in McMinnville, Oregon, and have a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. I live outside Washington with my wife and two children.
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