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Rethinking Special and Differential Treatment at the WTO

07/08/2025

It’s Decision Time For America’s Trade Partners

07/02/2025

Trade in an Uncertain World: What Comes After the Collapse of Trust?

07/01/2025

The state of globalisation: A new eBook

06/27/2025

WITA’S FRIDAY FOCUS ON TRADE – JUNE 27, 2025

06/27/2025

Pragmatism Over Purism: Imagining a WTO 2.0 for Our Modern Reality

06/25/2025

WITA’S FRIDAY FOCUS ON TRADE – JUNE 20, 2025

06/20/2025

The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment

06/18/2025

A New Trade Paradigm: How Shifts in Trade Corridors Could Affect Business

06/18/2025

How U.S. Tariffs Are Rewiring Latin American Trade

06/16/2025

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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February 10, 2022 Release Of ILO Report And Subsequent U.S. State Department Press Release On Forced Labor And Other Human Rights Issues In Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China

Terrence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/13/2022

My last post from February 11th on forced labor and U.S. law to stop imports from such labor did not include reference to a report released by the International Labor…

China
Human Rights
Labor
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade

Biden Administration’s Recent Actions Related to Products from China’s Xinjiang Region

Jeffrey Neeley, Cortney Morgan, Robert Stang, Grant Leach & Husch Blackwell Trade Team | Husch Blackwell  | 06/25/2021

Biden
China
China-US Agreement
Human Rights
Manufacturing
Sanctions

US Sanctions on Ethiopia: Good Policy or Violation of Ethiopia’s Sovereignty?

Teferi Mergo | Global Policy | 06/21/2021

The recent announcement by the United St...

Africa
Biden
Developing Nations
Diplomacy
Human Rights

US economic sanctions against human atrocities in China and Myanmar

Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Euijin Jung | PIIE | 04/08/2021

Two humanitarian crises in Asia are conf...

China
Forced Labor
Human Rights
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

When human rights violations create trade distortions — the case of China’s treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang

Terrence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts On Trade | 03/24/2021

China
Forced Labor
Human Rights
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade

What Forced Labor in Xinjiang Means for Supply Chain Due Diligence

Andrew Samet | The Diplomat | 10/03/2020

For the last quarter-century, companies with internati...

China
Chinese Policy
Globalization
Human Rights
Supply Chains

Food Security and COVID-19 — How World Trade Organization Members Could Fill a Pressing Need

Terrence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 08/15/2020

Coronavirus
COVID-19
Food Security
Human Rights
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
World Food Programme
World Trade Organization
WTO

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