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 24, 2011 | WCIT Blog
WCIT staff is on a three day trek around the eastern part of Washington state to meet with members, stakeholders and other folks generally interested in trade (whether they know it or not). If you want to follow the blow by blow account, we’re tweeting every...
by WCIT | Aug 19, 2011 | WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
Every so often, an industry will decide that some of its stakeholders will need to pay more than their fair share for the greater good. The Seattle Times was very familiar with that concept, until it finally got rid of its Joint Operating Agreement with the Seattle...
by WCIT | Aug 18, 2011 | WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
No, seriously, I mean it. This isn’t one of those “why is a raven like a writing desk?” questions (Alice in Wonderland reference, btw). I think this is a potentially interesting and vital question at the intersection of two major national policy...
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,...
by WCIT | Aug 11, 2011 | The Importance of International Trade, WCIT Blog, WCIT Policy Priorities
Sometimes my blog titles are so clever and witty that you don’t know what the post is about until you start reading it. “You Down with TPP? (Yeah, You Know Me!)” might be one example of that. But this post title is pretty straight up. This is a great...