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WITC: Meet the Trade Press, Reporters Roundtable

02/01/2019

An Undifferentiated WTO: Self Declared Development Status Risks Institutional Irrelevance

01/15/2019

Is the Trade War Causing Manufacturers to Leave China? Yes and No.

12/19/2018

Which US communities are most affected by Chinese, EU, and NAFTA retaliatory tariffs?

10/05/2018

In Advanced and Emerging Economies Alike, Worries About Job Automation

09/13/2018

The Ultimate Disruptive Technology: 3D Printing Will Not Only Change the Way We Trade; it Will Change the Way We Live

10/05/2016

Did the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Cause the Great Depression?

06/16/2014

WITA Event (1987) US Canadian Trade Agreement

12/17/1987

ATP RESEARCH

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Why the CPTPP Could Be the Answer to the US-China Trade War

Peter A. Petri, Michael G. Plummer | Peterson Institute for International Economics, Johns Hopkins University and East-West Center | 02/08/2019

Alexander Graham Bell once said that when one door closes, another opens. So it is now: 2018 saw the beginning of a trade war between the United States and China,…

Are Global Value Chains Receding? The Jury Is Still Out. Key Findings from the Analysis of Deflated World Trade in Parts and Components

Guillaume Gaulier, Aude Sztulman & Deniz Ünal | CEPII | 01/30/2019

Global Value Chains
Manufacturing

Trade and growth in the age of global value chains

Carlo Altomonte, Laura Bonacorsi and Italo Colantone | VoxEU | 01/30/2019

Amid Brexit and protectionist moves b...

Economic Growth
Global Value Chains

A Weakening Global Expansion Amid Growing Risks

Gita Gopinath | International Monetary Fund | 01/25/2019

While global growth in 2018 remained close to postcrisis ...

Data & Statistics
Developing Nations
Global Value Chains

Higher Wages for Sustainable Development? Employment and Carbon Effects of Paying a Living Wage in Global Apparel Supply Chains

Simon Mair, Angela Druckman, Tim Jackson | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey | 01/23/2019

Developing Nations
Foreign Direct Investment
Global Value Chains

A Look At American Digital Exports

Internet Association | 01/23/2019

Executive Summary Overview Internet Association examined the economic contribution of the Uni...

Data & Statistics
Data Flows
Digital Platforms
Digital Trade
Economic Growth
Global Value Chains

Advancing the U.S.-Korea Economic Agenda

Wendy Cutler, Hyemin Lee | Asia Society Policy Institute | 01/23/2019

For nearly 70 years, the United States-Republic of ...

Global Value Chains
Investment
Non-Tariff Barriers
Trade Agreements
Trade Law
Trade Policy
U.S. Policy

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