Leibowitz: What We Are Made of—COVID-19 and Trade

Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington:

Trade is only a part of the national and global response to the pandemic that is now sweeping the world—but in our interconnected world, it’s a pretty important part. So far, it’s not nearly as bad as other pandemics in history, but it’s bad enough. Much of what we are doing is an attempt to prevent it from reaching those epic proportions of the Black Death (14th Century), Bubonic Plague (17th Century), smallpox (18th Century), cholera (19th Century) and Spanish Flu and polio (both 20th Century).