My Hoover colleague Philip Zelikow, who is involved in the tariff litigation, passed this blog post along to me, and it struck me as very interesting. The author, Alan Wm. Wolff,
was the U.S. Department of Treasury's international trade lawyer from 1969 to March 1971, in which capacity he drafted President Nixon's Import Surcharge Proclamation 4074 of August 17, 1971 and defended this import surcharge at the GATT in September 1971 as counsel with the U.S. delegation. He later served as Deputy General Counsel and General Counsel at the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations from 1973 to 1977 and as Deputy Special Trade Representative from 1977 to 1979 with the rank of Ambassador. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations, he was the chief drafter for the administration of the Trade Act of 1974, the country's basic trade statute.
An excerpt:
