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Trade = Jobs
for workers, farmers, and communities.
Policy
Understand the most critical issues defining today’s’ trade landscape.
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Meet our diverse membership of Northwest manufacturers, farmers, retailers, service providers, and non-profits.
NEWS
See the latest WCIT announcements, statements, reports, opinions and articles on the intersection of trade and the Northwest.
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Northwest Trade Dashboard
WCIT provides its Northwest Trade Dashboard to provide a comprehensive view of the region’s international trade data – showing its impact on the economy and jobs and helping see trends develop. The dashboard covers quarterly data on:
- The volume of international trade by Congressional district
- Top exports
- Volume at all of the ports with exports*
- Top countries for imports and exports
- The number of jobs related to international trade
- The total imports and exports
- And more.
Latest Publications and News
Parsing the NYT’s Apple Outsourcing Article
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 - if anything -...
Invest in Washington! (Everyone else already does)
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 companies), but just...
Thoughts on the US. Department of Trade (and a new WCIT contest!)
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 Administration, the Office of the U.S....
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