This event will discuss the EU's role in Airbus development.

The U.S. is more active on trade policy than it has been in years.  President Obama is meeting with Canada and Mexico about new agreements, Congress will hold hearings on changing decades-old trade law, and the federal government will more broadly be bringing several cases before the WTO.

Yet, in constructing...

For the WTO to seize the mantle of global trade promotion, it must actually commit itself to promoting free trade.

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

For domestic political reasons unrelated to trade, the US will be in no position to lead on international trade issues for some years. As the US is still the "indispensable nation" for WTO talks, this means 2011 is the last good opportunity for many years.

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

Somewhere in the alphabet soup of institutional acronyms--WTO, G-7, G-20, IMF--it would seem there might be one that could prompt China to revalue its currency. Certainly, Washington's had little luck on its own.