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...
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A Chance to Boost Green Tech on Global Level
What if you could eliminate taxes of up to 35 percent on environmental technologies? This week, the United States, China, the EU and other trading partners start a process to eliminate tariffs imposed...
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John Murphy: Are India and China Ready to Lead on Trade?
India and China are giants on the world stage, with a combined population of 2.6 billion — more than one-third of humanity. Adjusted for purchasing power, their combined economic output tops $20...
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Stephen Ezell: ITA Expansion Agreement a Victory for Global Innovation Economy
The United States and China aren’t the only potential victors to emerge this week from an agreement to expand a two-decade-old list of information and communications technology (ICT) products that can...
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Edward Gerwin, Jr.: Building the Right Trade Policies to Support the Internet...
On factory floors and from computers in Silicon Valley, GE is building what it calls the “Industrial Internet” — global networks that employ sensors, cloud computing and advanced analytics to help...
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Scott Miller: WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement — Will the `Self-Help’ Program...
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...
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Gary Hufbauer and Tyler Moran: 2016 — A Good Year to Ace the Trade Agenda
With momentum building on the trade front despite ongoing concerns about globalization, here’s how leaders can earn an A in trade. The trade horizon unexpectedly brightened last year, including in...
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Kati Suominen: Next Big Roadblock to Trade — Congested Cities
Spending on trade facilitation needs to focus on megacities. As corporations have built giant global supply chains around the world, governments have done their share, reducing tariffs and other...
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