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Let’s Upgrade NAFTA To Compete With The World
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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 involve where you live or directly do business, may uncover new international opportunities, writes Bill Ansley, vice president of UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Customs and Trade Compliance.
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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 Suominen, founder and chairwoman of the Trade Capital Fund.
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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 things the international trade community must do to combat these "non-tariff measures" that disproportionately affect developing countries.
Kari Reidy: Growing Your Lemonade Stand: Exporting Drives Sales and Innovation
You would go to the supermarket with your parents to buy the ingredients, rush home to the kitchen with your siblings to mix everything up, create your own lemonade stand sign, and then head out to the end of your driveway / sidewalk to offer neighbors a cup of watered-down lemonade for 25 cents. While 25 cents per cup wasn’t the greatest profit margin, you still felt the most successful entrepreneur in the world!
Trading Up: Being Small and Going Global
The costs of doing international business have never been as low; the opportunity never so great.
After Two Decades, American Trade May Finally Get a Needed Upgrade
Four years later the United States began to create its own single window, the International Trade Data System (ITDS).
Self Interest Must Not Be Allowed to Derail Trade Negotiations
Concluding an ambitious and comprehensive agreement will yield significant economic benefits. It will signal that both sides are open for business and form the basis for the world’s largest internal market, liberalizing a third of global trade and boosting employment.
Conversation from Davos: John Rice and John Negroponte
Rice’s comments came in a wide-ranging video conversation with former U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte last week during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.
A Trade Policy for the Millenials
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 Partnership Agreement or T-TIP.
In November, Wikileaks leaked a draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement among 12 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. The same group also leaked a draft outlining country positions on key negotiating chapters in the TPP in early December.