Sen Warren is right: fast-track could help roll back Dodd-Frank
While the Obama Administration vociferously disagrees, Trade Promotion Authority opens the door to watering down financial reform.
While the Obama Administration vociferously disagrees, Trade Promotion Authority opens the door to watering down financial reform.
Most Western trade agreements – past and present – appear to be in doubt amid an anti-globalization backlash.
The US may be closer than people think to a deal over geographical indications, laws that protect products based on their location such as Champagne, Darjeeling tea and prosciutto di Parma.
The bill in Congress represents a healthy compromise that gives the president negotiating room while offering lawmakers more say on key trade issues.
Passage of trade promotion authority is still far from certain, but yesterday’s Senate vote may signal good news for the trade deals it’s meant to help.
The fight over fast-track that pitted the president against his own party offers reasons for both pessimism and optimism in future trade deals.
Much is at stake as negotiators meet in New York this week in hopes of aligning disparate transatlantic regulations.
With the resounding Republican victory in November’s midterm elections, most pundits are despairing that Congress and President Barack Obama will find any areas for cooperation in the coming two years…
Trade under Trump will mean more bilateral agreements, hard bargaining and ultimatums, a sharp departure from Obama’s multilateral, win-win approach.
Trump formally pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and signaled his intention to begin renegotiating NAFTA. Here’s some context.