Main Street America Benefits from Global Engagement By Daniel Griswold Americans are better off today because of our greater freedom to trade and work with people around the world. Our growing engagement in the world economy has delivered real benefits to Main Street Americans. Competition from trade has blessed American

I'm going to step aside for a couple days (well, unless anything really important happens in the trade world, in which case I'll jump back in) so that we can have a good, old-fashioned free trade versus protectionism debate.  On the free trade side will be

From the minutes (Word doc) of the 5-6 November 2009 TBT Committee meeting, here is the discussion of the U.S. and Canadian tobacco laws that affect clove cigarettes and burley tobacco, respectively (a favorite blog topic of mine): (ii) United States – Ban on Clove Cigarettes (G/TBT/W/323)

I'm a little out of my comfort zone when posting about things like the "transmission of international norms," but watching the Olympic hockey the other night, I caught a reference to an Olympic rule that was different from the one that applies in the NHL.  (I

From a background note by the WTO Secretariat on financial services (not public as far as I can tell, so I'm not going to post the whole thing here): Measures that do not constitute a limitation on market access as defined by the Agreement, nor a limitation to