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...
by WCIT | Jan 13, 2012 | The Importance of International Trade, Washington Trade Policy News Round-up, WCIT Blog
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...
by WCIT | Dec 28, 2011 | Free Trade Agreements, Freight Mobility, The Importance of International Trade, Trade Email of the Week, Washington Trade Policy News Round-up, WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
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 of them! Of...
