Five World Trade Game-Changers for 2014
The WTO’s trade facilitation deal reached in Bali in early December adds to the past three decades’ dramatic expansion in world trade owing to tariff liberalization, regional integration, lower...
View ArticleA Trade Policy for the Millenials
Leaks are bedeviling trade negotiations. In October, the European Commission leaked its position papers for the US-EU free trade agreement talks, known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment...
View ArticleConversation from Davos: John Rice and John Negroponte
A dramatically growing, global middle class is becoming a “demand generator” for companies “because they want infrastructure, healthcare and good, stable electricity,” said John G. Rice, GE’s Vice...
View ArticleSelf Interest Must Not Be Allowed to Derail Trade Negotiations
Negotiators met in Washington this week to advance talks on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP). Concluding an ambitious and comprehensive agreement will yield significant...
View ArticleAfter Two Decades, American Trade May Finally Get a Needed Upgrade
In 1989 the government of Singapore launched an innovative improvement to its trade infrastructure. The project, known as TradeNet, was a “single window” system that allowed exporters and importers to...
View ArticleTrading Up: Being Small and Going Global
As the global economy rebounds, companies around the world are seeking growth through exports. Only the next generation of exporters will not be companies that have matured in the domestic market, but...
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Kari Reidy: Growing Your Lemonade Stand: Exporting Drives Sales and Innovation
Remember how much fun it was opening your own lemonade stand? You would go to the supermarket with your parents to buy the ingredients, rush home to the kitchen with your siblings to mix everything...
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5 Ways To Make Global Trade Work For Developing Nations
The benefits of trade, such as jobs and income growth, won’t see their full potential with stifling regulation. About 96 percent of world trade is affected by at least one regulation. Here are five...
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Here’s What We Really Should Be Debating When It Comes To Trade
Of American micro and small businesses that sell on eBay, 97 percent export. Small online sellers are the new face of world trade. Export credit agencies must learn to support them, writes Kati...
View ArticleA Trade Policy for the Millenials
Leaks are bedeviling trade negotiations. In October, the European Commission leaked its position papers for the US-EU free trade agreement talks, known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment...
View ArticleConversation from Davos: John Rice and John Negroponte
A dramatically growing, global middle class is becoming a “demand generator” for companies “because they want infrastructure, healthcare and good, stable electricity,” said John G. Rice, GE’s Vice...
View ArticleSelf Interest Must Not Be Allowed to Derail Trade Negotiations
Negotiators met in Washington this week to advance talks on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP). Concluding an ambitious and comprehensive agreement will yield significant...
View ArticleAfter Two Decades, American Trade May Finally Get a Needed Upgrade
In 1989 the government of Singapore launched an innovative improvement to its trade infrastructure. The project, known as TradeNet, was a “single window” system that allowed exporters and importers to...
View ArticleTrading Up: Being Small and Going Global
As the global economy rebounds, companies around the world are seeking growth through exports. Only the next generation of exporters will not be companies that have matured in the domestic market, but...
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Kari Reidy: Growing Your Lemonade Stand: Exporting Drives Sales and Innovation
Remember how much fun it was opening your own lemonade stand? You would go to the supermarket with your parents to buy the ingredients, rush home to the kitchen with your siblings to mix everything...
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5 Ways To Make Global Trade Work For Developing Nations
The benefits of trade, such as jobs and income growth, won’t see their full potential with stifling regulation. About 96 percent of world trade is affected by at least one regulation. Here are five...
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Here’s What We Really Should Be Debating When It Comes To Trade
Of American micro and small businesses that sell on eBay, 97 percent export. Small online sellers are the new face of world trade. Export credit agencies must learn to support them, writes Kati...
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How Free Trade Agreements Affect You, Even If They Don’t Affect Your Country
In this increasingly connected world, the number of trade agreements is expanding globally, not contracting, despite political rhetoric. Evaluating current trade agreements, even those that don’t...
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Let’s Upgrade NAFTA To Compete With The World
International trade agreements typically only pique the interest of trade experts, economists or diplomats. One trade agreement, however, has become a household name in the United States – the North...
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