WCIT Blog
WCIT President Lori Otto Punke Talks Trade at Port of Vancouver, Visits Area Businesses
WCIT President, Lori Otto Punke, recently visited the Port of Vancouver, Washington as part of the Port’s community lecture series.
Op-ed: How to Hurt Washington’s Workers Without Supporting Public Health
WCIT’s President, Lori Otto Punke, writes in the Spokesman-Review, about an impending World Trade Organization proposal that would undermine global intellectual property protections.
WCIT Guest Blog: The State of Washington Trade
WCIT’s latest trade dashboard from the first quarter of this calendar year reveals that Washington state trade is experiencing a bit of a rebound. The state exported roughly $15 billion in goods in Q1, which was 20% higher than last year. Imports are up and our state...
WCIT Guest Blog: WCIT TRIPS Waiver
We don’t need to abandon IP rights to address the vaccine gap By Lori Otto Punke, President, Washington Council on International Trade Covid-19 is one of the greatest health challenges in history. In addressing it, the breadth and scale of vaccinations distributed...
WCIT Guest Blog: Dashboard Policy Agenda
The Numbers and Issues Defining Trade Lori Otto Punke, President, Washington Council on International Trade This month’s release of our 2022 Trade Policy Agenda as well as our new WCIT Quarterly Trade Dashboard provides the latest relevant information on the trends...
WCIT Guest Blog: Origins of the Ongoing Supply Chain Crisis and Impacts to Washington State
This summer and fall has seen a surge in port traffic, forcing shipping delays and upended retail distribution channels and manufacturing supply chains. News coverage has been replete with stories of shipping bottlenecks and images of hundreds of container vessels...
Sea-Tac Airport Tour with Port of Seattle
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has been one of the fastest-growing airports in the country over the last decade, and the airport has been undergoing major infrastructure upgrades to accommodate the related massive increase in passenger volumes. WCIT members...
The Trouble with Tariffs and Three Reasons to Support the Ports
Washington has always been a leader in international trade. From our geographic position as the “Gateway to Asia” to the Washington businesses who equate trade with opportunity to the efforts of our Congressional delegations past and present, our state takes its role...
Top Eight Reasons We Should (STILL) Join TPP
President Trump recently indicated that the United States might consider rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Rejoining the TPP is a no-brainer for Washington state. Here’s why. The TPP would remove more than 18,000 tariffs across member countries,...