From the AP: President Barack Obama is pitching his $8 billion high-speed rail program to Americans as a jobs generator that will revitalize the domestic rail industry. But the full picture is more complicated. Building ultra-fast trains won't create the kind of high-tech, high-paying

In the China - Publications AB report, the EU, a third participant in the appeal, was very influential on one particular issue.  In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen a third participant have this much impact on the AB's reasoning.  Here's what

From a Q & A session after some recent remarks by Obama: Q    Yes, okay, it has to do with international patent rights.  With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all

From the Comptuer & Communications Industry Association: WHY IS CENSORSHIP A TRADE ISSUE? The United States is an information economy, and U.S. companies are leading vendors of information products and services. In this context, information discrimination fundamentally undermines market access for electronic commerce, and combating it should top our

I see a lot of talk these days by the Obama administration about "high standard" trade agreements (e.g., here).  They also refer to "21st century" trade agreements, presumably to convey a similar idea. So what do they mean by a "high standard" agreement?