September 21, 2006 10:46AM 

# Breathtaking 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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The front-page [story](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901759.html) on tariff suspensions in today’s *Washington Post* has to be one of the worst examples of economic policy reporting that I’ve ever seen — and I work in health policy.

(Cato’s [trade policy](http://www.freetrade.org/) scholars convey that they were particularly suprised that such an article appeared in the *Post*, whose reporting is normally quite trade-literate.)

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