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What I Learned on My Eastern Washington Trip
Remember back in grade school when, as soon as you came back in September, your teacher would assign you to write a paper about "what I learned on my summer vacation?" Well, I just got back from a three day trip to Eastern Washington to talk international trade, and I...
WCIT in Eastern WA
WCIT staff is on a three day trek around the eastern part of Washington state to meet with members, stakeholders and other folks generally interested in trade (whether they know it or not). If you want to follow the blow by blow account, we're tweeting every step of...
Paying for the Competition to Compete with You
Every so often, an industry will decide that some of its stakeholders will need to pay more than their fair share for the greater good. The Seattle Times was very familiar with that concept, until it finally got rid of its Joint Operating Agreement with the Seattle...
What’s the Relationship Between Immigration and International Trade?
No, seriously, I mean it. This isn't one of those "why is a raven like a writing desk?" questions (Alice in Wonderland reference, btw). I think this is a potentially interesting and vital question at the intersection of two major national policy debates: 1) how do we...
Weekly TEOW: Washington Wine Goes to India!
Back in my days writing for the Prosperity Blog on Puget Sound economic development issues, I had a weekly featured called REDEW: the Random Economic Development Email of the Week. Whatever the most interesting economic development related email I received that week,...
Great Post on International Tourism as a Trade Issue
Sometimes my blog titles are so clever and witty that you don't know what the post is about until you start reading it. "You Down with TPP? (Yeah, You Know Me!)" might be one example of that. But this post title is pretty straight up. This is a great post on...
Stop Asking the Wrong Question About Trade
In my first month and a half on the job as president of the Washington Council on International Trade, I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of folks about a) trade policy and b) the role of WCIT. On the former, the answers have been broad, as this list of WCIT...
Random Trade Stats Update
State of Trade isn't often a venue for basic trade data. Sure, WCIT uses a lot of data in its analysis of various trade policies, but there's plenty of other repositories of trade data for you to check out. And, if you can't find it, feel free to give a call and we'll...
You Down with TPP? (Yeah, You Know Me!)
Every industry has its set of confusing and obscure acronyms. In the world of economic development, we often talk about STEM degrees (science, technology, engineering and math), which are the key to job creation in Washington's economy (especially now). In baseball,...