The possibility of a grand bargain that would produce major trade liberalization in manufacturing, services and agriculture has steadily diminished and has now disappeared.

AEI will host a panel of trade experts on both sides of the argument to debate the endgame for the Doha Round and the future of the WTO and its operations.

The panel will focus on the aspects for the Doha Agenda most closely linked to economic development. It will examine linkages that are positive, such as tariff liberalization of agriculture, and those that are negative, such as giving developing countries partial or complete exemption from liberalizing their own barriers....

A panel of leading experts will consider what to do with the ill-fated Doha Trade Round talks.

Congress is set to pass three bilateral trade agreements that would generate substantial job and export growth in an economy that sorely needs both. And while boosting exports by an estimated $13 billion and jobs by 380,000 won't by themselves turn the economy around, their passage could set the stage for much larger gains in years to come.

The collapse of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round of trade negotiations has raised important questions about the future of the WTO as an organization, the future of multilateral trade rounds, the place of trade in the development agenda, and the fragmentation of trade through bilateral and regional free...

Reform of trade-distorting national agricultural support policies is the central challenge to a successful conclusion of the WTO Doha Round of trade negotiations. Thus, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's annual survey and analysis of current national agricultural support policies is of central importance in assessing what is on...

U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab and others on the Doha round, the WTO, and the future of free trade.