by Dan Whiting | Mar 4, 2025 | News
SEATTLE, Wash. – Today’s action to implement tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as an additional tariff on goods from China, is the wrong path to worthwhile goals. Lori Otto Punke, President of WCIT, emphasized the impact of tariffs on...
by Dan Whiting | Feb 2, 2025 | News, Press Releases
SEATTLE, Wash. – Economic opportunity and job creation locally have long been driven by trading goods and services internationally. Consequently, additional costs to selling goods and services abroad through tariff policy are littered with unintended...
by Dan Whiting | Dec 12, 2022 | News, Newsroom, WCIT Blog
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. The op-ed appeared in the Spokesman-Review here on Sunday,...
by Colleen Boetel | Jun 6, 2022 | News, WCIT Blog
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...
by WCIT | May 29, 2019 | News, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 12, 2019 CONTACT: Jane Harris(206) 389-7295media@wcit.org WCIT Comments on U.S.- China Trade War Lori Otto Punke, president of The Washington Council on International Trade, issued the following statement regarding the recent escalation...
