by WCIT | Apr 2, 2012 | The Importance of International Trade, WCIT Blog
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...
by WCIT | Feb 23, 2012 | The Importance of International Trade, Washington Trade Policy News Round-up, WCIT Blog
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...
by WCIT | Feb 23, 2012 | Freight Mobility, The Importance of International Trade, WCIT Blog
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.”...
by WCIT | Feb 23, 2012 | Freight Mobility, The Importance of International Trade, Trade Data, WCIT Blog
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...
by WCIT | Jan 23, 2012 | Free Trade Agreements, The Importance of International Trade, WCIT Blog
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...
by WCIT | Jan 19, 2012 | The Importance of International Trade, Trade Data, WCIT Blog
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...
