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Jim Kessler and Gabe Horwitz: Not Your Dad’s Trade Deals

Jim Kessler Third Way
Gabe Horwitz Third Way
February 20, 2015

Since NAFTA, U.S. trade agreements have improved the U.S. balance of trade in goods with 13 out of the 17 countries involved. That bodes well for higher-standard deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

 

Do you have to like NAFTA to want a trade deal with Asia?

Trade skeptics contend that past trade agreements failed to deliver, and they point to NAFTA as an agreement that changed our trade balance with Mexico from one of surpluses to one of deficits.
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Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale: Why the Debate Over the Trans-Pacific Partnership is Misguided

Nicole Y Lamb Hale Albright Stonebridge Group
February 19, 2015

Focus instead on building the skills to take advantage of all it offers.

 
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Stuart Ridgway: How To Use Data To Unlock Overseas Markets

Stuart Ridgway Web And Product Manager
February 19, 2015

All sorts of data is generated by the U.S. government that could help small businesses tap into overseas markets. Here’s how to turn that information into sales.

 

Expanding overseas to sell your goods and services can be daunting, with a seemingly limitless number of markets to target. Yet just as Big Data is creating smarter healthcare solutions and predictive machines, trade data can be a powerful tool in searching the globe for the right customer.
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Edward Gresser: Trade and Inequality — Cause? Cure? Diversion?

Edward Gresser Progressiveeconomy
January 13, 2015
To look back over Census data on income and trade is to see three things happening at the same time: As trade flows have grown since the 1960s, Americans have become more affluent — but they have also been growing apart, with the wealthiest getting rich the fastest.
 
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Gary Hufbauer: 2015 — A Decisive Year for Globalization

Gary Hufbauer Peterson Institute For International Economics
January 09, 2015
Globalization has contributed enormously to world prosperity. The rationalization of production through global supply chains and the application of new technology worldwide — not just where it was invented — made the 60 years following the Second World War the most prosperous era in human history.
 

But today globalization faces strong political headwinds. The very term triggers protest from the political left — it has come to be blamed for the prosperity of the top 1 percent, stagnant wages for everyone else and the excesses of Wall Street.
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Frank R. Samolis: SOS on TPA — The Importance of Trade Promotion Authority

Frank R Samolis Squire Patton Boggs Llp
January 08, 2015
Following a dramatic end to the 113th Congress — which saw year-end compromises around defense spending authorization and the so-called “cromnibus” appropriations bill — President Obama and the newly elected Republican majority in the Senate are under pressure to demonstrate to the American people their capacity to govern for the next two years.
 
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Scott Miller: WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement — Will the `Self-Help’ Program Succeed?

Scott Miller Center For Strategic And International Studies
January 05, 2015
We have just passed the one-year anniversary of the WTO’s ninth Ministerial Conference in Bali, where members decided to adopt the agreement on trade facilitation. After overcoming some mid-year theatrics in Geneva, the WTO’s General Council closed 2014 by adopting the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) protocol and opening it for acceptance by members. This marks the first fully multilateral agreement adopted by the WTO since its creation 20 years ago.
 
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Francisco J. Sánchez: Synchronized Factories — The Key to Latin America’s Industrial Future

Francisco J Sanchez Cns Global Advisors
December 29, 2014
In 2005, Bombardier, the Canadian aerospace and transportation company, opened the doors of a factory in Querétaro, Mexico. At the time, the move seemed like a serious gamble. Though Mexico offered low wages compared to Canada, could it provide Bombardier with the environment required for such a highly technical manufacturing plant?
 

Almost 10 years later, it is clear that the gamble paid off. The factory has flourished and employs more than 1,800 workers. Bombardier continues to generate profits from its Mexico plants and is expanding there.
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Pamela Passman: How To Mobilize Risk Management Tools Against IP Threats

Pamela Passman Create Org
December 01, 2014
In an increasingly competitive global economy, information and ideas are the fuel that makes companies viable, allowing them to grow and create jobs.
 

Intellectual property (IP) — that covered by patents, trademarks, copyrights and harder-to-protect trade secrets — is now worth as much as 75 percent of the total value of major companies. But while the importance of these assets has grown, many businesses lag in their efforts to protect IP.
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Edward Gerwin, Jr.: Building the Right Trade Policies to Support the Internet of Things

Edward Gerwin Jr Trade Guru Llc
November 25, 2014
On factory floors and from computers in Silicon Valley, GE is building what it calls the “Industrial Internet” — global networks that employ sensors, 
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