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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

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

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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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 Lighthizer walked through the doors of the office of the United States Trade Representative to introduce himself to the career staff who had…

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EU Has No Legal Basis to Impose Aircraft Tariffs; WTO Award Relates Only to Now-Repealed Tax Break, Rejects EU Request on Other Measures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

USTR Lighthizer’s Great Leap Backward on Trade

Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Euijin Jung | Peterson Institute for International Economics | 09/01/2020

In his late...

Bilateral Trade
International Trade
Public Policy
Trade Policy
Trade War
United States
USTR
WTO

USTR Should Proceed With Caution on Digital Services Tax

Clark Packard|RStreet| | 06/08/2020

While attention focused on the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the p...

COVID-19
Data & Statistics
Digital Trade
Digitization
DSTs
EU
Europe
Trade Liberalization
U.S. Policy
USTR

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