by WCIT | Dec 12, 2014 | WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
Often as we grow (professionally, athletically, physically) we don’t realize how far we’ve come until we look at our milestones and compare them to our starting point. Similarly, I didn’t realize how far WCIT had come until I put together our 2014 Year in Review last...
by WCIT | Sep 22, 2014 | WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
If you’ve been following the trade news this summer, you’ve probably witnessed the political wrestling match surrounding the Export-Import Bank, the national export credit agency. Reauthorizing the Ex-Im Bank before its September 30 expiration has been one of WCIT’s...
by WCIT | Jun 23, 2014 | WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
One of the questions that I sometimes hear when traveling around the state of Washington is “What does 50 tons of Washington cherries look like?” I was never sure why people asked me this, since I’m a trade policy person, not a giant pile of fruit expert, but those...
by WCIT | Jun 6, 2014 | WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
HMT, Ex-Im, TPA 40% of WA jobs Depend on trade! By the time we finished all our meetings with the Washington congressional delegation on our recent WCIT D.C. Fly-In, our pitch on the most pressing trade policy priorities for Washington state began feeling much like a...
by WCIT | Apr 3, 2014 | Free Trade Agreements, WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
Editor’s Note: WCIT is pleased to welcome our next guest blogger, Michael Messina, Sr. International Trade Consultant for Desh International Law, to the State of Trade blog. WCIT’s guest blogger series features posts by experts on diverse international trade policy...
