Trade Policy

End the Unilateral Trade Sanctions on Collectors

Wayne Sayles | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Trade Policy, Trade, Coin Collectors, Obama Trade Policy, Maria Kouroupas, Culture News

While government agencies in Washington increase surcharges and restrictions for U.S. consumers of cultural artifacts, their Chinese counterparts take advantage of the unilateral sanctions.

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Our Muddled China Policy

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Congress, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trade Policy, Nafta, China Trade Policy, China Trade, Rare Earth Minerals, China, President Obama, Politics News

This is supposed to be a period of bitter bipartisan deadlock, in which Republicans and Democrats can agree on nothing. But when it comes to trade deals that serve corporate but not the national interest, bipartisanship is all too alive and well.

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Harvest America or Invest in America

Stan Sorscher | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Lesser America, Social Contract, Industrial Policy, Social Investment, Civil Society, Vulture Capital, Harvest Strategy, Prosperous Customers, Corporate Citizenship, Trade Policy, Business News

We have strong historical and constitutional values about one-person one-vote and a government responsive to local communities. Right? Well, no. That's not right. Quite the opposite.

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Obama Unveils New Proposal

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Boeing, Obama Trade, Video, Boeing Plant, Obama Boeing, Obama Washington, Obama, Trade Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News

EVERETT, Wash. — President Barack Obama on Friday called for more steps to help U.S. companies compete overseas, standing in front of an enormou...

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How, Exactly, Does Trade Bring Prosperity?

Stan Sorscher | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, De-Industrialization, Trade Deficit Agreements, Trade, Industrial Policy, Wto, Trade Policy, Civil Society, Nafta, Business News

I work for a labor union in the aerospace industry. We are 100% in favor of trade. We make products the rest of the world wants to buy. With increas...

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Obama Hosts Close Ally After Trade Agreement Passes

AP | MATTHEW PENNINGTON and ERICA WERNER | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: White House Korea State Dinner, Lee Myung-Bak, Korea-US Relations, South Korea Free Trade Agreement, Obama, Barack Obama, Free Trade Agreement, US-South Korea Relations, International Trade, Obama State Dinner, Video, South Korea, Trade, Korean Peninsula, Trade Policy, Trade Agreement, Korea, North Korea, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama praised a just-completed trade deal with South Korea on Thursday as he welcomed the country's president to t...

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Trade Finance and the Financial Crisis

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: International Trade, Developing World, Global Financial Crisis, Economics, Trade Policy, International Development, Trade Finance, World Bank, Impact News

As the 2008-9 financial crisis spread from its epicenter in the United States to the rest of the world, policy makers found themselves in uncharted wa...

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White House Threatens To Hold Up Trade Pacts

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Mitch McConnell, Panama Trade Agreement, President Barack Obama, Ron Kirk, Colombia Trade Agreement, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Trade Policy, Gene Sperling, South Korea Trade Agreement, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is drawing a line in the sand with Republicans over pending trade deals, one of few areas with the potential for ...

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Scaling the Mount Everest of Trade Barriers to Create Jobs

Robert Holleyman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Americans, Trade, Revenue, Software, Policy, Trade Policy, Barack Obama, Testimony, Technology News

Reducing software piracy would send ripples of stimulus through the broader IT economy, thereby creating jobs, spawning new enterprises and driving growth.

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We're Number Two: Why America Is Losing its Lead in Manufacturing and How We Can Get it Back

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Trade Deficit, Trade Policy, China, Alliance for American Manufacturing, Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Manufacturing Jobs, Politics News

When IHS Global Insight revealed this week that China has passed the United States to lead the world in manufacturing output, the response from some i...

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Trade Solutions That Won't Work

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade, Trade Deficit, Wages, U.S. Trade Deficit, Productivity, Trade Policy, Exports, Business News

If we are to understand the true scope of our problem and frame solutions that will work, these false hopes must be debunked forthwith.

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Barack Obama's Secret State of the Union

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama State of the Union, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Sotu 2011, State of the Union, Beijing, White House, Nobel Peace Prize, Climate Change, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Trade Policy, China, Politics News

Barack Obama is not likely to show his cards during this year's State of the Union address. Here's what I believe he'll be thinking as he reads off the teleprompter tonight.

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China's President Is Here: Can There Be a Breakthrough in US-China Relations?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency Manipulation, Hu. China US Relations. Summit, Trade Policy, Tim Geithner, Barack Obama, World News

On the eve of the Chinese President's visit to the United States, and in the midst of intense speculation about his intentions--and ours--I found myse...

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Fiddling While Rome Burns

David Coates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Debt, Personal Debt, Paul Ryan, Homeowner Debt, Debt, USA Trade Policy, China Trade Policy, Free Trade, China Debt, Trade Policy, Politics News

The main debt problem currently besetting the U.S. economy is not primarily a debt problem at the federal level, no matter what Paul Ryan claims or implies. It is a debt problem at the level of people's personal finance.

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What Would Reagan Do? He'd Stand Up to China

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Manufacturing, Trade Policy, China Currency, Business News

Some critics argue that legislation to address China's continued undervaluation would be "protectionist," but this argument makes no sense. If someone cheats in a game, you call them on it.

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Tea Party Politics & Economics: Brews Too Bitter to Swallow

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Tax Policy, Midterm Elections, Trade Policy, Tea Party, Politics News

If Tea Party proposals were put into action, our economy would collapse into a heap of unfairness and imbalance. A heap so un-American that the Tea Partiers themselves would wonder, "What have we done?"

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Priming a Broken Pump

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deindustrialization, Priming the Pump, Economic Stimulus, Industrial Policy, Trade Policy, Trade, Free Trade, U.S. China Trade, Business News

Imagine a bucket is our economy. The stimulus is the water poured into the bucket. The holes in the bucket are leakage into the global economy. We pour water into the bucket, and the water leaks out, creating jobs in India, Brazil, and Finland.

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The Week Congress Began to Challenge China

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Currency Manipulation, Timothy Geithner, Trade Policy, Politics News

Congressional action on China's cheating looks increasingly likely. The chances for passage of a bipartisan bill in Congress that would deter China from manipulating its currency have improved dramatically.

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Appeasing China on Currency Will Doom Our Economy

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Countervailing Duties, Trade Policy, Currency Manipulation, Multinational Corporations, Protectionism, China, Politics News

Passing the Schumer-Graham bill in the Senate and Ryan-Murphy bill in the House would be two small steps in a larger effort to stop China's mercantilism and balance America's current account.

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The State Department's Jobs Agenda

Robert Hormats | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Export Initiative, Intellectual Property, State Department, Barack Obama, International Trade, Economic Policy, Hillary Clinton, Intellectual Property Protection, Trade Policy, Job Creation, Business News

There is a temptation during periods of high domestic unemployment to turn inward. But that is exactly what we should not do. That would cost us jobs, not increase them. Instead, we must take greater advantage of opportunities to increase our exports.

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Killer Trade Deficits. Literally.

Scott Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. China Trade, China Currency Manipulation, Trade Policy, American Manufacturing, Politics News

economically appeasing the Chinese government gets you something akin to the 1938 Munich Agreement: it may look good on paper, but the net result is ultimately disastrous and costly.

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Free Trade: Flawed Theory and Bad Policy

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Imf, Trade Orthodoxy, Wto, Industrial Policy, Civil Society, Comparative Advantage, Free Trade, Trade, World Bank, Trade Policy, Business News

Free trade works very well for investors, financial institutions, and large multinational companies. At the same time, our free trade agreements push aside interests of workers, communities and the environment.

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An Internationalism Republicans and Democrats Can Agree On

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economics, Al Jazeera, Ron Kirk, Joshua Rogin, David Gregory, US Aid, US Foreign Policy, China, Japan, Internationalism, Barack Obama, Le Monde, Patrick Von Bargen, Aaron Schock, Lael Brainard, Richard Nixon, Korea, US Global Leadership Coalition, Hillary Clinton, Senator Jeff Bingaman, Nixon Center, Bipartisanship, Trade Policy, Rajiv Shah, Peoples Daily, Yomiuri, Politics News

Believe it or not, there actually are Democrats and Republicans -- lots of them -- committed to robust international engagement, smart foreign aid, and coherent and sensible U.S. international public diplomacy.

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Obama Must Discover the WTO

James Bacchus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trade Negotiations, International Trade, Doha Development Round, World Trade Organization, Doha Round, Trade, Exports, Wto, Trade Policy, Multilateralism, World News

None too soon, Obama seems to have discovered that one of the best ways to create jobs and growth is through more world trade. To create the most jobs and the most growth through trade, he must also discover the World Trade Organization.

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Level the Playing Field in Trade Policy

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Imports, Free Trade, National Industrial Policy, Industrial Policy, Level Playing Field, Trade Policy, Wto, TRADE Act, Nafta, Business News

All products sold in America should comply with the same basic standards, whether manufactured domestically or imported from abroad. That's one playing field (among many) that should be leveled.

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