Trade in the News
Books on Trade
Rule-makes or rule takers? Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
In this volume, European and American experts explain the economic context of TTIP and its geopolitical implications, and then explore the challenges and consequences of US-EU negotiations across numerous sensitive areas, ranging from food safety and public procurement to economic and regulatory assessments of technical barriers to trade, automotive, chemicals, energy, services, investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms and regulatory cooperation.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), China and India: Economic and Political Implications
Why TPP, China and India -- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: issues and structure -- Economic implications -- Implications for Asian regionalism -- The political economy -- China and India: how far from the TPP? -- Strategies and alternative alignments.
NAFTA and labor in North America
"Focusing especially on the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (the first international labor agreement linked to an international trade agreement), Norman Caulfield notes the waning political influence of trade unions and their disunity and divergence on crucial issues such as labor migration and workers' rights. Comparing the labor movement's fortunes in the 1970s with its current weakened condition, Caulfield notes the parallel decline in the United States' hegemonic influence in an increasingly globalized economy."
Government Documents
United States - Obama Administration
- Archived Obama Administration Webpages on Economics
- Cabinet Exit Memos - January, 2017
- The Record: Former President Obama on the Economy
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What You Need to Know About President Obama's Trade Agreement
- Obama Administration Files WTO Complaint on China's Subsidies to Aluminum Producers
- USTR Releases 2016 Report to Congress on China's WTO Compliance - January 2017
- U.S.-EU Joint Report on T-TIP Progress to Date - January 2017
- T-TIP Issue-by-Issue Information Center - Office of the United States Trade Representative
- White House Fact Sheet: T-TIP - Office of the United States Trade Representative
United States - Trump Administration
- Trade: Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement; United States Withdrawal (Memorandum of January 23, 2017) - January 2017
- President Trump Takes Action: Signs Series of Presidential Memoranda Dealing with Trade and Other Issues - January 2017
- Statement of Peter Navarro on Trump Leadership on Trade - September, 2016
United Nations
- UN Resolution 63/203: International trade and development - January 2009
Trade Deal Resources
- TPP: What is it and why does it matter? - BBC News, November 22, 2016
- The TTIP of the the spear - Charlemagne, The Economist - October, 2015