While there is widespread agreement that the substantive results of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Hong Kong Ministerial meeting were meager, there is no agreement on where the Doha Round negotiations go from here. Optimists still hold that breakthroughs are possible over the next few months and that the round...

Increased use of safeguards would reduce inflammatory and often spurious comparisons between "fair" and "unfair" trade practices.

AEI trade experts and economists will hold a briefing on Monday, September 8, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. The agenda will focus on substantive negotiations and prospects for success or failure at the Cancun WTO Ministerial Meeting, which will be held from September 10 through September 14, 2003. Issues...

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

Every Kurdish official, foreign businessman, or diplomat, knows that regional leader Masud Barzani and his immediate family have far greater power than Kurdistan’s constitution indicates.

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 combatants for tomorrow's ground-breaking general election TV debate in Britain could use advice from U.S. TV debates over the past fifty years.