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May The Force Be With Trade

Stephen Lamar | American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) | 05/04/2018

May 2018 marks World Trade Month ― a time of public and private celebrations of the benefits of trade. Star Wars fans know that May doubles as an unofficial Star Wars…

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 ...

On the Current State of the World Trading System

Alan Wolff | 04/04/2018

WASHINGTON, DC – April 4, 2018–My object today is to sort through the noise of the curren...

Reuniting Trade and Human Rights

Oonagh Fitzgerald | Center for International Governance Innovation | 04/02/2018

With urgent work to be done to achieve the UN Sus...

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...

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