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.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 The World Trade Organization Doha round trade negotiations collapsed yesterday in Geneva, ending a marathon seven-year attempt to push through a broad range of trade-liberalizing rules. The collapse of the talks...

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...

In the latest International Economics Outlook, AEI trade expert Claude Barfield assesses the progress of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the substantive and structural issues that have emerged during the negotiations.

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

Despite an increasingly difficult political terrain--including deep divisions between the two major parties over trade policy, as well as equally deep intra-party divisions with the Democratic Party--U.S. presidents and the U.S. executive have adopted remarkably unified goals.

AEI will host a panel of trade experts on both sides of the argument to debate the endgame for the Doha Round and the future of the WTO and its operations.

President Obama indicated his seriousness about exports when he committed to double them by 2015, but he has given conflicting signals about his commitment to trade liberalization. While the administration has praised the passage of the FTAs with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea, the president waited far too long to submit the legislation to Congress.