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Proposals For WTO Dispute Settlement Reform – A First Step But Not Enough

Terence P. Stewart | Stewart and Stewart | 11/29/2018

On November 23, 2018, two documents were circulated to WTO members for consideration at the December 12, 2018 General Council meeting proposing amendments to the WTO’s Understanding on Rules and…

Evaluating the New NAFTA

Simon Lester and Inu Manak | CATO | 10/03/2018

Evaluating the New NAFTA There’s a lot in the new NAFTA (technically, the US-Mexico-Canad...

Tariffs Impact the Economy

Matthew Rooney | George W. Bush Presidential Center | 06/22/2018

Economic growth expert Matthew Rooney explains how tariffs impact the...

Trump, Trade Wars, and the Forgotten Man

C. Donald Johnson | 04/18/2018

WASHINGTON, DC –In a tweet that reads like “Newspeak” from Orwell’s 1984, President Trump ...

The Broken Multilateral Trade Dispute System

Terence P. Stewart | 02/07/2018

INTRODUCTION WASHINGTON, DC – February 7th, 2018 – The World Trade Organization (WTO...

Paradigm Lost? U.S. Trade Policy as an Instrument of Foreign Policy

Alan Wm. Wolff | 02/05/2018

SUMMARY For most of the last 100 years, the United States has ente...

The WTO Is Inappropriately Usurping American Sovereignty

Daniel B. Pickard, Tessa Capeloto | Wiley Rein LLP | 07/14/2017

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an...

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