Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

But it seemed likely that carbon pricing could be presented as a tax on *consumption* of carbon — in which case a tax on the carbon content of imports would be non-discriminatory and WTO legal, just as tariffs that go along with a VAT are OK 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Possible, but probably not. This issue was discussed at length circa 2009, when the House passed a cap-and-trade bill (which died in the Senate). It was clear that carbon pricing couldn't work without carbon tariffs 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

So one underdiscussed part of the Trump trade wars is that it's very possible a Democratic president, even the next… https://t.co/2ja2vOlUy3

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If all that is too YHTMAAAIYP (you have too many acronyms and abbreviations in your paper), the short of it is that a country that takes serious action on emissions is surely entitled to limit imports whose production also generates emissions. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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