Scott Lincicome is an international trade attorney, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and senior visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School. Follow Scott on Twitter. The views expressed herein are Scott Lincicome’s alone and do not necessarily represent the views of his employer.
Bill Watson is a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies. Follow Bill on Twitter.
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