13.8.03
MAYBE SPRAWL ISN'T SUCH A BAD THING. Steel tariffs and agricultural subsidies come in for criticism at Common Sense and Wonder, Porphyrogenitus, and Daniel Drezner. My favorite industrial policy horror story involves the relocation of Chicago candy factories to Canada. The candy manufacturers get to buy subsidized sugar (to keep the beet growers of eastern Colorado and the Hawaiian cane plantations open?) at the export price and to ship their candy bars, which are manufactured goods, under NAFTA provisions.
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