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February 5, 2015
Chairman Paul Ryan’s First Public Address on Trade
WASHINGTON — Today, Chairman Paul Ryan delivered the following remarks at the Washington International Trade Association on his vision for expanded U.S. trade. Remarks as Prepared for DeliveryProvided By United States House Ways and Means Committee “Hi, everybody. I want to thank Steve for the introduction. And I want to thank all of you for joining […]
February 2, 2015
5 Minutes with Robert Moran on the TransAtlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP)
From Ken Levinson, Executive Director of WITA: A regular feature of this blog is what we call “5 Minute Interviews”. For these features, we will speak with leaders in the global trade and public policy community to get their thoughts on key issues facing global policy makers. Our latest interview is with Robert Moran, a […]
January 23, 2015
Will Congress Give Obama Authority to Negotiate Trade Agreements?
President Obama called on Congress to give him authority to negotiate trade agreements in last night’s State of the Union address. This authority, commonly called Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or Fast Track Authority, was last granted to the President in 2002, but that authority expired in 2007. Under our Constitution, authority to regulate foreign commerce […]
January 20, 2015
Krugman Gets It Wrong: Trade Agreements Will Grow the Economic Pie
In a recent blog, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman criticizes the U.S. Chamber’s advocacy in support of the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trade agreements now under negotiation by the Obama administration. Our position is simple: If American businesses large and small can fill their order books with sales to new customers, they will need to […]
January 16, 2015
Haiti: Five Years Later; Five Years from Now
On January 12, 2010 – five years ago this week – a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. It killed as many as 300,000 people. Another 300,000 were injured and 1.5 million were initially displaced. Congress responded by enacting the Haitian Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act of 2010, which built on the earlier Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity […]
Haiti: five years later; five years from now
On January 12, 2010 – five years ago this week – a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. It killed as many as 300,000 people. Another 300,000 were injured and 1.5 million were initially displaced. Congress responded by enacting the Haitian Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act of 2010, which built on the earlier Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity […]
January 15, 2015
C-SPAN WITA VIDEO; The Thawing of U.S.-Cuban Relations: What does it really mean for trade?
Video link to WITA US-Cuba Trade Panel Rapprochement with Cuba? Opening a U.S. Embassy in Havana? Lifting the Embargo? Long thought a distant possibility, normal commercial relations with Cuba may be a tangible reality in the near future. U.S. businesses may soon have the possibility of entering and investing into an untapped market with an array of different […]
January 12, 2015
5 Minutes with Devry Boughner Vorwerk on U.S.-Cuba Trade Relations
From Ken Levinson, Executive Director of WITA: A regular feature of this blog is what we call “5 Minute Interviews”. For these features, we will speak with leaders in the trade community to get their thoughts on key issues facing global policy makers. Our first of these interviews is with Devry Boughner Vorwerk, Vice President, […]
January 9, 2015
Big Changes Coming to AmericasTradePolicy.com
AmericasTradePolicy.com was launched a little more than a year ago with the objective of being a non-partisan forum where all views of trade policy could be presented. Since its launch, we’ve posted 76 blogs on a range of trade policy topics and have reached people and organizations interested in trade policy around the world. AmericasTradePolicy.com […]
Welcome Message from WITA’s Executive Director and President of its Board of Directors
On behalf of the membership and Board of the Washington International Trade Association, we are delighted to follow in the very lofty footsteps of Bill Krist and the Wilson Center in managing this blog. As Bill noted in his own post, WITA is Washington’s largest non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing a neutral forum in […]
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