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The USMCA: New, Modestly Improved, but Still Costly

Mary E. Lovely|Jeffrey J. Schott|Peterson Institute For International Economics | 12/17/2019

President Donald Trump touts the newly revised United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) as the “most important trade deal” in history. The pact modernizes trading rules, and strengthens enforcement of labor and…

Strengthening the WTO

National Foreign Trade Council | 10/08/2019

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is fundamental to the functioning of the global economy. Busi...

Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System

Chad P. Bown And Douglas A. Irwin | Peterson Institute for International Economics and Dartmouth College | 08/19/2019

How Trump can save the WTO

Marc L. Busch | Georgetown University | 08/14/2019

The global economy is about to be shaken to its foundation. By the end of this year,...

Trump’s Backfiring Trade Policy

Uri Dadush and Laurence Kotlikoff | Bruegel | 08/12/2019

Thirty months into President Trump’s radical trade policy, and as t...

A Defense of the Beleaguered WTO Appellate Body

Steve Charnovitz | International Economic Law and Policy Blog | 05/09/2019

In November 2017, I authored a paper wa...

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