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With a successful, large-scale result from the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round of trade negotiations increasingly unlikely, many commentators are arguing that the time has come to reassess U.S. trade policy goals and...

Knee-jerk partisan opposition to executive nominees tears at the fabric of governance by keeping key positions unfilled, but the Senate confirmation process is not entirely at fault.

N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and experts discuss issues of tax policy and global business activity.

Representative Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) warned of a dangerous trend toward protectionism that he saw in recent debates over trade and immigration.

What are the prospects for trade policy in President Bush's second term? To answer this question, AEI has recruited four trade policy experts from leading Washington think tanks to give their evaluations and predictions. The aim of the seminar will be twofold: first, to have the panelists...

Rising foreign direct investment, U.S. manufacturing job losses, and cross-border outsourcing arrangements have focused attention on how U.S. tax rules influence decisions by multinational companies to create jobs in the United States and abroad. The recent presidential election campaign included proposals to alter significantly U.S. taxation of income earned by...

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...

Bhagwati takes on those who argue that economists are now split on free trade.