Jake Colvin is Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), a nonprofit trade association whose mission is to promote an open, rules-based international trading system. He is also a fellow with the New Ideas Fund, a group that supports progressive approaches to U.S. national security and foreign policy. Jake has written about economic and foreign policy issues for a variety of publications including Business Week, Chicago Tribune, Forbes.com, Miami Herald and Comedy Central's Indecision2008.com. Originally from Long Island, New York, he is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and the University of Richmond.

Blog Entries by Jake Colvin

Obama vs. Krugman: Five Reasons the President's Right on Carbon Tariffs

1 Comments | Posted September 16, 2009 | 10:36 AM (EST)


As congressional efforts to regulate U.S. carbon emissions gain steam, carbon tariffs have received a good deal of attention thanks in part to economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

Mr. Krugman has become a proponent of carbon tariffs, also known as "border adjustment measures," which would tax...

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Why Can We Visit Kim Jung Il but Not Old Havana?

11 Comments | Posted June 19, 2009 | 05:42 PM (EST)


Chances are, if you are an American citizen, you can pack your bags for a propaganda-filled tour of North Korea but you cannot order up a daiquiri at El Floridita, the bar Ernest Hemingway made famous in Old Havana. Cuba, it turns out, is the only country on earth...

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Following the London Summit, What's Next for the World Economy?

Posted April 14, 2009 | 05:04 PM (EST)


Co-authored by Randall Soderquist, Senior Trade Program Associate with the Center for Global Development.

Now that world leaders and finance ministers have met in London and declared their support for open markets and reform of global financial rules, what's next for the world economy?

Right now,...

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Enough Hand-Wringing Over Cuba

Posted March 12, 2009 | 12:16 PM (EST)


In between dealing with the banking, mortgage and global financial crises, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner managed to find the time to clarify U.S. Cuba policy to Senators Bill Nelson and Robert Menendez.

The Senators had expressed concern with three provisions buried in the omnibus appropriations act which pertain to...

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New Report Hints at Broken Promises and Trouble Ahead for World Trade

Posted January 30, 2009 | 11:10 AM (EST)


A report issued by the World Trade Organization reveals that key U.S. trading partners have taken steps to erect new trade barriers and improve the export performance of domestic industries. While the report is relatively sanguine about the effect of protectionist pressures on international trade thus far, the impact on...

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Beating the Drum on Cuba Policy

Posted December 9, 2008 | 03:23 PM (EST)


For a small country, U.S. think tanks, journalists and businesses are paying Cuba a great deal of attention these days. The latest in a steady drumbeat of white papers, policy briefs and news articles to call for new U.S. policies toward the island comes from Roger Cohen, who wrote in...

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