Tag Archives: United States

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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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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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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RTA Exchange Platform Presented at WTO

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Kati Suominen

This week I had a chance to present at the World Trade Organization (WTO) the draft online platform of RTA Exchange, a new global forum for dialogue on regional trade agreements I conceptualized in 2012-13 as theme leader of the … Continue reading →

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State of SME Finance in the United States 2014: Year of New Providers

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Kati Suominen

At my consulting firm Nextrade Group, we just put out a new white paper on the state of SME finance in the United States: This matters because SMEs are the backbone of US economy and an important contributor to U.S. … Continue reading →

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Out of the Way, Congress

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Kati Suominen

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

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Kati Suominen

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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Forget about the Flat World: Globalization is Now 3D

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Kati Suominen

From Ideas Lab, 4 October 2013 http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/2013/10/04/kati-suominen-forget-about-the-flat-world-globalization-is-now-3d/ As Congress starts to consider the trade promotion authority (TPA) needed for approving new trade deals, America’s trade policy is at a turning point. The United States is striking historic “mega-regional” agreements with … Continue reading →

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Why TAFTA is Even Better than NAFTA

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Kati Suominen

From Foreign Policy, 13 February 2013 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/13/the_case_for_tafta_us_europe_free_trade Why Obama’s call for a free trade agreement between the United States and Europe could be a game-changer. As U.S. President Barack Obama opens his second term, America’s trade policy is showing signs … Continue reading →

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