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How Donald Trump Should have Tackled the US Trade Deficit

08/19/2025

US Negotiators Face Tough Task to Secure Trade Deal with China

08/18/2025

Reflections on the Angels on the Head of Jamieson Greer’s Pin

08/12/2025

Taxation Without Representation: How Trump’s Tariff Policy Undermines Democracy And International Legal Norms

08/04/2025

Trump, Tariffs & Trade Wars

08/04/2025

A Progressive Industrial Policy for the Global South: A Latin American Perspective

07/28/2025

An Alliance For Open Trade: How To Counter Trump’s Tariffs

07/27/2025

Tariffs, Trade Tensions and Climate Policy: The New Frontier of Green Trade Measures

07/26/2025

Which Country Should Design U.S. Industrial Policy?

07/16/2025

Court of International Trade’s Flawed Ruling in Striking Down Trump’s Tariffs

07/14/2025

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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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USTR 2021 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers — areas of concern with a focus on China

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 04/08/2021

Every year for the last 36 years, USTR releases a National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers. This year’s forward provides a little background on the report. See USTR,…

Bill Brock, Tenn. senator who rebuilt the GOP after Watergate and became labor secretary, dies at 90

Matt Schudel | Washington Post | 03/25/2021

Bill Brock, a Ten...

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USTR

Pat Toomey and Katherine Tai: A telling exchange

Claude Barfield | AEI | 03/05/2021

During her Senate confirmation hearing last week, incoming US Trade Representa...

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USTR
WTO

Biden Administration Releases 2021 President’s Trade Agenda and 2020 Annual Report

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative | 03/01/2021

WASHINGTON – The Office...

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International Trade
Multilateral trading system
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WTO

Biden Administration throws support behind Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for next Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 02/05/2021

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Director General
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First Steps for the Biden Administration on the Global Trade Regime

Wendy Cutler | East Asia Forum | 12/07/2020

As the incoming Biden administration considers the...

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Biden
Canada
China
China-US Agreement
Digital Trade
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Japan
Selection of WTO Director-General
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USTR
World Trade Organization
WTO

WTO Government Procurement — Proposed Action by the United States to Modify Obligations of the Central Government on Medicines and Medical Goods Contained in Annex 1

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 12/07/2020

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China
Coronavirus
COVID-19
India
Medical Supplies
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Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
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