In April 2016, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Donald Trump was still just one among several contenders for the GOP nomination, I talked with AEI trade expert Claude Barfield about trade deficits, the WTO, US-China relations, and more. Two years later, our conversation may be even more relevant now than it was then.

Claude Barfield is a resident scholar in international trade policy, science, and technology at the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to AEI, he was on the faculties of Yale and the University of Munich, and worked at the National Journal; in the Department of Housing and Urban Development; the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee; and as a consultant to the office of the US Trade Representative.

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