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Coming Apart: WTO fiasco highlights urgency for the U.S. to lead the global trading system

India’s torpedoing last week the WTO’s trade facilitation agreement, struck at the last minute between the United States and India in the December 2013 WTO Ministerial in Bali, is a death blow to the world body and adds to growing … Continue reading

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Out of the Way, Congress

From Foreign Policy, 14 January 2014 5 reasons U.S. lawmakers need to get on board with mega-regional free trade deals. Last week, U.S. lawmakers took a critical step toward inking mega-regional free trade deals with Europe and 11 Asia-Pacific countries … Continue reading

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Five Coming Geo-Commercial Game Changers

From Ideas Lab, 27 December 2013: The discord in Bali only highlighted the role of regional trade agreements as the center of gravity in world trade. There are two ways to look at the WTO’s agreement in Bali on trade … Continue reading

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The Surprise End Game in Global Trade

From VoxEU, 20 December 2012 http://www.voxeu.org/article/surprise-end-game-global-trade Free trade agreements are now the centre of gravity in global commerce. This column says they are also the likeliest pathway to multilateral trade liberalisation. With the US negotiating two mega deals – the … Continue reading

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The Surprise End Game in Global Trade

With President Obama looking on, China orchestrated the launch of negotiations for a tripartite free trade deal with Korea and Japan during last week’s East Asia Summit. But as much as China is assumed to be the new powerbroker in … Continue reading

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