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 America.” That statement has been …
Read MoreParsing 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 – can be done …
Read MoreInvest 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 that it’s rarely a policy topic …
Read MoreThoughts on the US. Department of Trade (and a new WCIT contest!)
Lots of news coverage and reaction today on President Obama’s proposal to merge six agencies into a new “United States Department of Trade” – the U.S. Department of Commerce’s core business and trade functions, the Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas …
Read MoreState of Trade’s Top Ten for 2011
As 2011 slowly makes its way to conclusion, it’s always a great time to look back and reflect on highs and lows for the year that was. And here at the State of Trade blog, we especially like to look back on the highs because, hey, there were so many …
Read MoreTrade Helps You Drink Coffee…Literally
There’s many reasons that trade matters to Washington state. The jobs, the economic impact, the access to new markets for local businesses and the access to products from around the world for local residents – like coffee. Coffee? Of course, you say. We know that coffee beans aren’t grown in …
Read MoreTPP: Y’all Come?
“TPP is not something that one gets invited to. It’s something that one aspires to.” That was the quote from Michael Froman, President Obama’s deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, in reaction to China’s assertion that it would want to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations but had not …
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