Import Certificates


Warren E. Buffett & Carol J. Loomis, “America’s Growing Trade Deficit is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us. Here’s a way to Fix the Problem -- And We Need to Do It Now,” Fortune, November 10, 2003. This is the article in which Warren Buffett initially proposed import certificates.


Sherman Katz of the Carnegie Endowment gives his reasons for opposing Import Certificates


Sallie James, “A New Solution to the Trade Deficit ‘Problem,” (Posted on a Cato Institute Blog on September 15, 2006). Cato Institute blog's opposition to Import Certificates.


Raymond L. Richman,“The Great Trade Debate,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, September 14, 2003. Raymond Richman calls for import restrictions tied to exports as a way to balance trade.



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