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August 1, 2025 – Candidate Donald Trump rode the working-class vote back into the White House with promises that tariffs would rebalance U.S. trade and rebuild American manufacturing. His presidential trade policy announcements since, including the April 2 “Liberation Day” tariffs, reiterated his goal was boosting American manufacturing and reducing the U.S. trade deficit.

July 31, 2025 – Following a recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirming Epic Games’ victory over Google in its lawsuit challenging its monopoly power over its operation of the Google Play Store, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement. 

July 30, 2025 – In response to the administration’s announcement today that it would extend to the entire world its May 2025 termination of the de minimis duty-free exception for certain imports from China, Lori Wallach, Director of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project, said:

July 30, 2025 – Following new reporting from Sohrab Ahmari and UnHerd, which shares fresh insights into how the controversial settlement agreement for the Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Juniper Networks merger was coordinated through “boozy backroom meetings between company lawyers and lobbyists,” the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

July 29, 2025 – Following news that the US Department of Transportation has approved the United Airlines-JetBlue “Blue Sky” Collaboration, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.