Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to be here at the American Enterprise Institute. It is of course quite timely to be here on the day the Electoral College finally meets, given the AEI’s reputation as home to a number of advisers to President-elect George Bush. So much so...

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

The European Union and the United States remain the most important leaders of the world trading system. For meaningful progress to occur in trade liberalization, the two entities must compromise both on individual issues and on an agenda for new trade talks. AEI has assembled a panel of trade...

EU and the U.S. remain leaders of the world trading system, but for progress to occur in trade liberalization, the two entities must compromise on individual issues and agenda for trade talks.

The Obama administration will need to decide whether, on trade issues, it has now cast its lot with a coalition of pro-trade Republicans and internationalist Democrats, or whether it has pushed its labor allies as far as it dares.

Obama can follow the long tradition of U.S. presidents who turned from frustration at home to success abroad by resolving to conclude the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of global talks next year.

It would be a mistake for the World Trade Organization to restart the multilateral trade negotiations.

Both the prime minister of India and President George W. Bush are for freer trade and are keen on the Doha deal.