COOL isn’t cool anymore
The recent theatrics over Trade Promotion Authority suggest that our political leaders in Washington aren’t serious about international trade. Amid the fight...
Trade Promotion Authority
Free Trade Is an Economic Necessity, Not Politics 2016
When I meet presidential candidates here in Iowa, I always ask the same question: Where do you stand on free trade? That’s because for farmers like me, expor...
TPA Now
Workers in Oregon are about to discover what it’s like to live in a world without international trade. Since last month, two major shipping companies have an...
Making the Constitutional Case for Trade Promotion Authority
As a member of North Dakota’s state legislature, I take my constitutional duties seriously. Serving in office requires me to take an oath: I solemnly swear to s...
Trade Promotion Authority is Ready to Move Ahead
After a year of uncertainty on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to negotiate and approve trade agreements, the Obama Administration and Congress appear to be mov...
2014 in Review
In 2014, the farmers of Truth about Trade & Technology celebrated the centennial year of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution. We also marked ...
Fifteen Years of “Protesting the Protests” Against Free Trade
The public protests over recent grand-jury decisions have brought to mind an event whose 15th anniversary has just passed: the so-called “Battle in Seattle” ove...
TPP on Track but Moving Slower Than Hoped
Many policy analysts and members of the media had oversized expectations for progress on negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreemen...
US Needs Trade Promotion Authority to Close Trade Deals
“Today in America……a farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest five-year stretch of farm exports in our history.” “And when ninety-eight percent of ...
A New Year Wish from the Global Farmer Network
The year 2013 has come and gone. How time flies when you have so much to say! From global trade talks and the economic boost of exports felt around the world t...