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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

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 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission 2020 Annual Report — Recommendations to the U.S. Congress

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 12/02/2020

In 2000 the U.S. Congress established the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) to “monitor and report on the national security implications of the U.S.-China economic relationship.” 2020 REPORT…

China
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Medical Supplies
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy
United States
USTR
WTO

U.S.-China Phase 1 Trade Agreement — Data through September 2020; USDA and USTR report on agriculture portion

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 11/13/2020

Agriculture
Bilateral Trade
China
China-US Agreement
Phase One
Phase One
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Agreements
Trade Policy
United States
USTR

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

Lydia DePillis | ProPublica | 10/13/2020

On a spring day in 2017, Robert Light...

Trade Negotiations
Trade Policy
United States
USTR

It is Time for the U.S. and EU to Resolve the Longstanding Disputes on Subsidies to Airbus and Boeing

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/13/2020

Dispute Settlement
European Union
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Tensions with EU
U.S-EU Relations
United States
USTR
World Trade Organization
WTO

EU Has No Legal Basis to Impose Aircraft Tariffs; WTO Award Relates Only to Now-Repealed Tax Break, Rejects EU Request on Other Measures

USTR | 10/13/2020

Washing...

EU
Europe
European Union
Export
Fair Trade
Free Trade
Global Markets
Imports
International Trade
Protectionism
Tariffs
Trade Tensions with EU
U.S-EU Relations
USTR
WTO

U.S. Commences Two Investigations into Vietnam under Sec. 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as Amended — on Currency and on Use of Illegally Harvested Timber

Terence P. Stewart | Current Thoughts on Trade | 10/12/2020

Currency
Currency Manipulation
Environment
Section 301
Terry Stewart Thoughts on Trade
Trade Policy
Trade Remedies
USTR

Why Trump Lost His Battle Against the Trade Deficit

Doug Palmer | Politico | 10/06/2020

As President Donald Trump enters the final month of his reelection campai...

Bilateral Trade
Phase One
Tariffs
Trade Deficit
Trade Policy
Trump
U.S. Policy
United States
USMCA
USTR

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