Congress Begins to Address Trade Promotion Authority
For 80 years U.S. Presidents have negotiated trade agreements based on objectives jointly established by the President and Congress. That partnership during th...
Bush Administration
Almost a U.S. Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
The U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement completed in November of 2006 has been withheld from the U.S. Congressional approval process because of concerns over ...
NAFTA Regulatory Challenges and Mexican Trucks
The recent gathering of government officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico for the NAFTA Commission meeting in Mexico City ended with a joint statement th...
China’s Power at Issue in High-Level U.S. Talks
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By Steve LeVine and Frederik Balfour
July 26, 2009
www.businessweek.com While China's leadership will look for assurances on U.S. inflation, ...
U.S.-China Trade
U.S. and Chinese government officials just completed the 19th meeting of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT). This year was the 25th a...
Another Look at the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
On April 7 President Bush sent to Congress a letter with legislation to implement the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). House Democratic leaders have ...
The Bush Administration’s Last Trade Policy Agenda Report
The Bush Administration has released its seventh annual Trade Policy Agenda and Annual Report as required by the Trade Policy Act of 1974. The Administration ha...
Agricultural Market Access in the Doha Round
Crawford Falconer, chairman of the agricultural talks for the WTO Doha Round, followed up his release in late December of four working documents on domestic sup...
Agricultural Export Competition in the Doha Talks
The release on November 6 of three working documents on agricultural export competition by Crawford Falconer, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the Do...
WTO Compliance Panel Upholds Findings on Brazilian Cotton Case
To no great surprise, a three-member WTO compliance panel has upheld its findings in a July interim report that the U.S. has not sufficiently reformed its cotto...