by WCIT | Oct 12, 2011 | Free Trade Agreements, WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
And not only because that’s actually the date. Today is the date that – after years of delay and sometimes hopelessness – the free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama & Colombia passed the United States Congress! We’ll be referencing...
by WCIT | Oct 4, 2011 | Free Trade Agreements, WCIT Blog
Since State of Trade’s launch just three months ago, we’ve been prioritizing one topic more than any other: the pending free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. So, when the White House transmitted these agreements to Congress yesterday...
by WCIT | Sep 28, 2011 | Free Trade Agreements, The Importance of International Trade, WCIT Blog
I had a great trip to Washington, DC last week (which you know already if you followed the hashtag #WCITinDC along the way). And what you’ve all been wondering…the question that’s been keeping you up at night…is “What was Eric’s...
by WCIT | Sep 15, 2011 | Free Trade Agreements, WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
My wife didn’t think this blog post title made sense…since it’s really about how Russia doesn’t love tariffs and is willing to lower them to join the World Trade Organization. But you get the idea, plus it’s a James Bond reference (my...
by WCIT | Aug 26, 2011 | Free Trade Agreements, The Importance of International Trade, WCIT Blog
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...
by WCIT | Aug 16, 2011 | Free Trade Agreements, Trade Email of the Week, WCIT Blog
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,...
