During President Obama’s recent trip to Asia, he announced the outlines for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with nine Asian nations. AEI has assembled a group of trade policy experts to explore the immediate and long-term future of the TPP negotiations and assess their regional negotiations in the context of broader U.S. trade policy goals.

As part of a bid for renewed authority to streamline government, the White House wants to merge six agencies into one bureaucracy focused on trade and competitiveness. The plan has sparked substantial criticism from the U.S. business and trade policy communities. An expert panel will weigh in on the controversy and evaluate President Obama's reorganization proposal.

The recent failure of trade ministers to achieve a breakthrough on the difficult issues at the center of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round is a major setback to the WTO and to the multilateral trading system. Several trade experts will convene at AEI to analyze the implications of...

International trade scholars Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College and Petros Mavroidis of Columbia University Law School have completed a study of the motivations and goals that underpinned the creation of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) at the end of World War II. Given the dire straits of...

Two weeks ago, a consultative board to the WTO Director General issued a report calling for significant institutional and policy changes in the multilateral trade organization—including recommendations regarding preferential trade agreements, relations with NGOs, the dispute settlement system, transparency, and the decision-making process. AEI has asked two...

Panelists will explore the issue of border adjustments.

Despite the general understanding in the exporting community that antidumping actions are bad for business, little has been done to publicize the negative impact of these trade remedy procedures. It is hoped that this seminar will raise public awareness of these issues, which have great economic consequences for world...