Last year, the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on roughly $280 billion worth of U.S. imports — everything from solar panels and washing machines, steel and aluminum, and about half of what we import from China. In response, Ford, Coca-Cola, Walmart and other large companies have warned about the impact of tariffs on their bottom […]
!["Theft [of technology] was the norm throughout history, all the way since the Industrial Revolution," says Greg Clark, a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis.](https://img.apmcdn.org/f050875e5dadd198c93a7b8ef2d146171a9d0e73/uncropped/66acfc-2019-02-gettyimages-698980646-webp1800.webp)
