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TITLE/CITATION	PUBLISHER WEBSITE
Bown, Chad P., “The global trade system is not broken." The Economist Open Future debate, 7-13 May 2018. Opening statement, 7 May 2018 Rebuttal statement, 9 May 2018 Closing statement, 11 May 2018	TE
Bown, Chad P., “The 'element of surprise' is a bad strategy for a trade war." Harvard Business Review, 16 April 2018.	*HBR*
Bown, Chad P., “More than Soybeans: Trump's Section 301 Tariffs and China's Response." PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 4 April 2018.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump's long-awaited steel and aluminum tariffs are just the beginning." PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 26 March 2018.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P. and Douglas A. Irwin, “Does Trump want a trade war? What you need to know about Smoot-Hawley tariffs and the 1930s." Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 21 March 2018.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “What We Do and Don't Know After Trump's Tariff Announcement." Harvard Business Review, 9 March 2018.	*HBR*
Bown, Chad P., “Europe is pushing back against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs. Here's how." Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 9 March 2018.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Are Counterproductive. Here Are 5 More Things You Need to Know." PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 7 March 2018.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: How WTO Retaliation Typically Works." PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 5 March 2018.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump has announced massive aluminum and steel tariffs. Here are 5 things you need to know." Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 1 March 2018.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “China’s latest trade maneuver is worrying. Here’s the story." Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 6 February 2018.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Canada Turned to the WTO because Trump Has Threatened NAFTA," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 30 January 2018.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “What is GSP and why does it matter for U.S. trade?" Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 25 January 2018.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “President Trump’s solar and washer tariffs may have now opened the floodgates of protectionism," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 23 January 2018.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Ryan Avent's 'The Wealth of Humans' and the Future of Work," PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 2 January 2018.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P. and Caroline Freund, “Canada's Next Move: NAFTA or TPP?" The Hill, 6 December 2017.	*Hill*
Bown, Chad P. and Junie Joseph, “Solar and Washing Machine Safeguards in Context: The History of US Section 201 Use," PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 31 October 2017.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P., “Needling Foreign Nations May Torpedo Trump's Trade Agenda," The Hill, 31 October 2017.	*Hill*
Bown, Chad P., “Donald Trump Now Has the Excuse He Needs to Open the Floodgates of Protectionism," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 9 October 2017.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Rogue 301: Trump to Dust Off another Outdated US Trade Law?,"PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 3 August 2017.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump’s Renegotiation Could Take the 'Free' Out of NAFTA’s Trade," PIIE Trade & Investment Policy Blog, 19 July 2017.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P. and Alan O. Sykes, “Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs Don't Add Up," Bloomberg View, 14 June 2017.	BV
Bown, Chad P., “Trump is a new kind of protectionist - He operates in stealth mode," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 12 June 2017.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P. and Alan O. Sykes, “The Trump Trade Team's Vocabulary Problem," Wall Street Journal, 14 May 2017.	*WSJ*
Bown, Chad P., “Did Trump just take an ax to the U.S. trade policy relationship with Canada?" Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 27 April 2017.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump's threat of steel tariffs heralds big changes in trade policy," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 21 April 2017.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Is the WTO one of Trump's 'big quagmire deals'? Here's what's at stake." Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 28 February 2017.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “What is NAFTA, and what would happen to U.S. trade without it?" Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 15 February 2017.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump's border tax is not the right fix for U.S.-Mexico trade," PBS NewsHour, 30 January 2017.	*PBS*
Bown, Chad P., “The Perils of Shifting China's 'Market Economy' Dispute to the WTO," World Politics Review, 21 December 2016.	*WPR*
Bown, Chad P., “Trump says China is not a market economy. That's a big deal.," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 12 December 2016.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “The Truth about Trade Agreements - and Why We Need Them," PBS NewsHour, 21 November 2016.	*PBS*
Bown, Chad P., “Duty-free Beats headphones? Yes, plurilateral trade agreements have something for everyone," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 20 October 2016.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P. and Patricia Tovar, “MERCOSUR is not really a free trade agreement, let alone a customs union," VoxEU.org, 17 September 2016.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P. , “Brexit: An Impossibly Complex Task for the UK's New Trade Negotiators?," International Banker, Summer 2016: 50-53.	IB
Bown, Chad P. , “The sky fell on the U.S. poultry industry last year. But NAFTA and the TPP helped protect U.S. exports," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 30 August 2016.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P. , “The U.S. filed a WTO dispute to save jobs - by increasing imports from China. Here's why.," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 26 July 2016.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P., “Starting Over on Tariffs: Post-Brexit Trade Agreement Partners for the United Kingdom," PIIE, 12 July 2016.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P. , “A quick Brexit or a delayed departure? Here’s where it gets tricky for businesses," Washington Post (Monkey Cage), 7 July 2016.	*WaPo*
Bown, Chad P. , “China's Market Economy Status and Antidumping: A $100 Billion, $10 Billion, or $1 Billion Dispute?," PIIE, 8 June 2016.	*PIIE*
Bown, Chad P. and Meredith Crowley, “Today’s Trade Policy and Trade Research," VoxEU.org, 5 June 2016.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P., “Brexit Is a Bad Trade," U.S. News & World Report, 3 June 2016.	*USNWR*
Bown, Chad P., “Emerging Economies and WTO Tariff Liberalisation After Doha," VoxEU.org, 23 December 2015.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P. and Douglas A. Irwin, “The Urban Legend: Pre-GATT Tariffs of 40%,” VoxEU.org, 19 December 2015.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P. and Kara M. Reynolds, “WTO Trade Disputes, Big and Small,” VoxEU.org, 10 August 2014.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P., “Trade Policy through 2013: Signs of Improvement but New Policy Concerns,” VoxEU.org, 27 June 2014.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P., Michele de Nevers, and Ann Harrison, “Why Fracking Won't Bring Back the Factories (Yet),” Wharton Public Policy Initiative (PPI) Policy Brief, v1, n5 (May 2013): 1-5.	*WPPI*
Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Emerging-Economy Trade Policy Has Become More Responsive to Economic Shocks under the WTO,” VoxEU.org, 8 February 2013.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P., “Counter-Cyclical Research on Counter-Cyclical Trade Policy?” The Political Economist (Newsletter of the American Political Science Association, Section on Political Economy), vIX, n2 (Winter 2012): 2-5.	*APSA*
Bown, Chad P., “Import Protection Update: Antidumping, Safeguards, and Temporary Trade Barriers through 2011,” *VoxEU.org*, 18 August 2012.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Antidumping as Cooperation,” *VoxEU.org*, 14 July 2012.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P. and Daniel Lederman, “Navigating the Perplexing Web of Trade Policy Indicators,” *World Bank's Trade Policy Monitor*, June 2012.	*World Bank*
Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “How Did US and EU Trade Policy Withstand the Great Recession?” *VoxEU.org*, 28 April 2012.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P. and Daniel Lederman, “Using the WTO to Keep South-South Trade Flowing: Lessons from Antidumping,” *World Bank’s Trade Policy Monitor*, April 2012	*World Bank*

Bown, Chad P., “Import Protection and the Great Recession,” *VoxEU.org*, 29 August 2011.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P., “The WTO Dispute Settlement System Would Survive without Doha,” *VoxEU.org*, 19 June 2010.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P., “Antidumping, Safeguards, and Protectionism during the Crisis: Two New Insights from 4th Quarter 2009,” *VoxEU.org*, 18 February 2010.	*VoxEU*
Bown, Chad P., “Free-Trade Greenshoots,” *The Wall Street Journal Asia* p. 19 (Op-ed), 18 November 2009.	*WSJA*
Bown, Chad P., “The Pattern of Antidumping and Other Types of Contingent Protection,” World Bank PREM Trade Note 144, 16 October 2009.	*World Bank*
Bown, Chad P., “Confronting the Protectionism Spawned by the Crisis,” in *G-20 Summit: Recovering from the Crisis*. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, September 2009, 7-9.	*Brookings*
Bown, Chad P., “Obama Must Resist the Anti-trade Mobs,” *Financial Times* p. 7 (Op-ed), 28 August 2009.	FT
Bown, Chad P., “Protectionism Exposed,” *The Wall Street Journal* p. A13 (Op-ed), 6 August 2009.	*WSJ*
Bown, Chad P., “The Global Resort to Antidumping, Safeguards and Other Trade Defense Instruments Amidst the Financial Crisis,” in Vitor Gaspar and Jozef Konings (eds.) *Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA) Monthly Brief: Special Issue: Trade Policy.* Issue 27, June 2009, 16-22.	*BEPA*
Bown, Chad P., “World’s End: Grandma and Globalization,” *Bucknell World* v35, n3 (Summer 2007): 40.	BW
Bown, Chad P., “No More Second-Best Trade Solutions,” *The Washington Post* (Op-ed for WashingtonPost.com’s Think Tank Town Op-ed), 13 April 2007.	WP
Bown, Chad P. and Rachel McCulloch, “Question and Answer: The Trade Deficit,” *The American* v1, n2 (January/February 2007): 74-79.	AM
Bown, Chad P., Meredith A. Crowley, Rachel McCulloch, and Daisuke Nakajima, “The U.S. Trade Deficit: Made in China?” Economic Perspectives v29 (4^th Quarter, 2005): 2-18.	EP
Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “The Benefit of U.S. Antidumping,” *University of Nottingham’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy Newsletter* v11 (Summer 2004): 10-11.	UN

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