WCIT Blog
Mr. WCIT Goes to Washington
My job as the President of WCIT is to fly to DC and meet with our Congressional delegation (at least that's part of my job...that and writing clever posts on the State of Trade blog, of course). So why, you might ask, am I going to write a blog post about the fact...
Read a Report that Will Make You Smarter on Trade Policy…And Healthier!
Daily visitors to the WCIT website (those huge numbers of you who can't start your day without checking for the latest updates on trade policy and its impact on the Washington state economy) may have noticed something unique this past Wednesday. And no, I'm not...
The Role of Local Governments in Supporting International Trade
Today, I had the opportunity - along with Sam Kaplan of the Trade Development Alliance - to present to the King County Council on "International Trade as an Economic Driver for King County,” and I learned a very valuable lesson: never present immediately after a...
A New Voice in the State of Trade
I am Pradnya Desh, an international trade attorney and former USTR negotiator. I will be writing a monthly post on trade policy issues and their legal underpinnings. Even though I can’t promise to deliver as clever titles as Eric Schinfeld’s posts, I can promise my...
Wind Tax Credit “Not Dead Yet”
The above was the title of this Politico article on the prospects for Congressional renewal of the Wind Energy Production Tax Credit. But every time I hear the phrase "not dead yet" I think of the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the dead body...
Washington Needs an NBA Team to be Competitive in International Trade
Well, there's a blog post title that puts my thesis out there clearly and succinctly. Much better than some of my rejected ideas, like "Washington Drives to the Hoop in International Trade" or "You Can't Travel Without Traveling." (That last one especially doesn't...
Why Do We Care Where the Jobs Come From?
In this year's State of the Union address, President Obama made a bold statement about how to incentivize job creation in the United States: "It is time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas, and start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in...
Parsing the NYT’s Apple Outsourcing Article
Today, the NYT published a major story on Apple's global supply chain for the iPhone that tries to answer the question that people have been asking over the last twenty or thirty years on trade: "Why are American companies outsourcing jobs, and what - if anything -...
Invest in Washington! (Everyone else already does)
The State of Trade blog doesn't usually touch on the issue of foreign direct investment (FDI). Not that it's not an international trade issue (employing close to 100,000 people in our state through investment from Canada, EU and Asia in Washington companies), but just...