The way to prosperity is in free but not controlled trade. We must eliminate all the PC Federal agencys and the minimum wage laws. All the regulations and taxes have screwed up our formerly Capitalist system.
This economist starts with an increase in antidumping measures by some nations as indications of rising 'protectionism'. He does not say whether or not he believes antidumping measures should be allowed, or what sort of specific practices the current new antidumping measures are intended to remedy.
This is very typical of what we got from most economists: looking at the forest and a tree or two, but ignoring what's going on all around the tree or two he chooses to see. He should have explained who filed antidumping charges and why, but that would require an economist to take off the blinkers and actually look at a sequence of events from start to finish. Something they seldom seem to do.
This article doesn't supply enough information to determine who did what to whom and why.
China’s exporters were specifically named in more than 75% of these economies’ newly initiated investigations. In the second quarter, China’s exporters were targeted in all 17 of the cases in which new trade barriers were imposed around the world.
So, tell us why China is the target of most of the new investigations? And are China's markets open to all, a free trade example for all to follow? He doesn't say. Not sure just what he's said, if anything worthwhile.
One of the major suppliers for adipic acid is Honeywell in Hopewell Virginia. I think the BASF in Freeport Texas makes this also. It is byproduct of making lactam which turns into Nylon.