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Human Rights in China

01/13/2021

Coercive Labor in Xinjiang: Labor Transfer and the Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities to Pick Cotton

12/14/2020

China’s system of oppression in Xinjiang: How it developed and how to curb it

09/01/2020

Global Supply Chains, Forced Labor, and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

03/11/2020

2020 Washington International Trade Conference Recap

02/04/2020

Connecting the Dots in Xinjiang: Forced Labor, Forced Assimilation, and Western Supply Chains

10/16/2019

Blogs

Contributors provide unique perspectives on critical trade issues. Author’s views are their own, and do not reflect the views of WITA, its Board or its staff.

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The WTO Must Not Continue As It Is

Alan Wolff | World Trade Organization | 12/10/2020

Sustainability has two relevant definitions: “the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level”, and as “Sustainable development” – “development that meets the needs of the present without…

Will Biden Be the First Sustainable Trade President?

Stephen Olson | Hinrich Foundation | 12/07/2020

Based on what President-elect Biden has already said about hi...

Biden
Climate Change
Environment
Sustainable Trade
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy
United States
World Trade Organization
WTO

G20 Leaders’ Declaration, 22 November 2020

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 11/23/2020

The two day Leaders’ Summit of the G20, chaired in 2020 b...

Climate Change
COVID-19
Digital Trade
Environment
G20
G20 countries
Investment
Saudi Arabia
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade

WTO Initiatives on Trade and the Environment — Likely to Receive a Warm Welcome under a Biden Administration

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 11/17/2020

Biden
Climate Change
Environment
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
World Trade Organization
WTO

To Address Climate Change While Protecting Workers, the United States Needs a Border-Adjusted Carbon Tax

Jennifer Hillman | Council on Foreign Relations | 11/13/2020

Environment
TAX
U.S. Policy

End Plastic Waste Trade for a Healthier Future

Inger Abdersen & Pamela Coke-Hamilton | Bangkok Post | 11/09/2020

New trade deals heighten fears that countries in...

Environment
Green Trade
International Trade
Trade Policy

Globalization Needs Rebuilding, Not Just Repair

JEAN PISANI-FERRY | Bruegel | 10/29/2020

A second term for US President Donald Trump would complete the demolition...

Economic Reform
Environment
Fair Trade
Globalization
Protectionism
U.S. Policy
United States

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