Tag Archives: Ecommerce

How Can We Revitalize America’s Global Competitiveness?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Kati Suominen

Today I had the honor to speak on a panel “Power Play: How Can We Revitalize America’s Global Competitiveness?” at the Pacific Council’s members’ weekend. It was a terrific debate – below are my opening remarks and some conclusions: U.S. … Continue reading →

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New thought leadership on digital trade: reforming trade policies, customs regulations, and development solutions for the global digital economy

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Kati Suominen

Disruptive digital technologies — the cloud and digitization, ecommerce, 3D printing, big data, holograms, Internet of Everything, peer-to-peer lending, virtual currencies, and so on — are revolutionizing the economics of global trade and production. They are empowering corporations to dramatically … Continue reading →

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Will Globalization Be Obama’s Greatest Foreign Policy Legacy?

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Kati Suominen

This article appeared in Zocalo on 29 December 2014: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/12/29/will-globalization-be-obamas-greatest-foreign-policy-legacy/ideas/nexus A President Who Came Into Office a Free Trade Skeptic Is Now on the Brink of Brokering Two Big Deals Battered by crises and maligned by critics, globalization is regaining momentum. … Continue reading →

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Aid for eTrade – Accelerating the Global eCommerce Revolution

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Kati Suominen

Some days ago I presented at CSIS a new paper, Aid for eTrade – Accelerating the Global eCommerce Revolution, that I wrote as CSIS Adjunct Fellow with the support of eBay. The paper argues that a quiet revolution is taking place … Continue reading →

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New Face of Globalization: Online Shoppers and Sellers

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Kati Suominen

As the world economy digitizes, patterns and players in trade are changing. According to U.S. Census Bureau, the total online transactions in the U.S. grew from $3 trillion in 2006 to $5.4 trillion in 2012, to about a third of … Continue reading →

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How 3D Printing Will Overhaul Globalization as We Know It

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Kati Suominen

Thought to open the curtain a bit on my next book – here are some pieces: In the early 1980s, an engineer named Chuck Hull approached his boss with an idea: to build a machine that printed out objects you … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Kati Suominen

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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eTrade Readiness Index by EIU – My interview on catalyzing cross-border ecommerce

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Kati Suominen

I was recently interviewed about the reforms needed for fueling cross-border eCommerce for the new “The G20 e-Trade Readiness Index“, and Economist Intelligence Unit report, commissioned by eBay Inc. The report is based on a quantitative index ranking of countries … Continue reading →

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Why are companies that sell on e-commerce platforms so globalized?

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Kati Suominen

My new blog at TradeUp blog: http://www.tradeupfund.com/blog/why-are-e-commerce-sellers-so-globalized As one explores international trade data, a stunning fact emerges: only 1 percent of America’s 30 million companies export. The remaining 99 percent sell only in the U.S domestic market. The explanation simple: especially … Continue reading →

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My Interview about TradeUp on About.com – Small is Big in the International Economy

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Kati Suominen

From: http://importexport.about.com/od/Financing/fl/Does-Size-Matter-For-Global-Scale.htm Founder and CEO of Nextrade Group LLC, Kati Suominen, has deep expertise in international trade (importing and exporting), economics and finance. In the interview below we discuss her latest venture, TradeUp LLC, why she started it, how companies … Continue reading →

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