International Trade Policy and the 2004 Presidential Campaign
What Are the Issues?

Trade policy has become one of the important issues of the presidential campaign. Topics range from disagreements over outsourcing to calls for mandatory new labor and environmental standards. While President George W. Bush and his advisers proudly advertise their post-2001 accomplishments, Senator John Kerry has called for a moratorium on trade negotiations and a review of U.S. trade policy during the first 120 days of a Kerry presidency. What are the most significant differences between the candidates and parties? On what issues and priorities will there likely be continuity, should Senator Kerry win the election? Two leading representatives of the Bush and Kerry teams will answer these and other questions.

About the Author

 

Claude
Barfield
  • Claude Barfield, a former consultant to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, researches international trade policy (including trade policy in China and East Asia), the World Trade Organization (WTO), intellectual property, and science and technology policy. His many books include Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001), in which he identifies challenges to the WTO and to the future of trade liberalization.
  • Phone: 2028625879
    Email: cbarfield@aei.org
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