Why trade matters, especially to the US in election year

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Jonathan Gold is the US’s National Retail Federation’s vice president for supply chain and customs policy and has used this blog as a platform to explain what benefits international trade brings to the US. The entire concept of trade and its position in the US economy has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months as the presidential election gathers pace. Some of the leading candidates – principally Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders – have taken positions that would appear to ...