The Rise of the Free Trade Agreement

With the many recent failures of multilateral trade agreements, bilateral free trade agreements have moved front and center. Not only are they becoming an integral part of American economic policy, they are also being wielded as an instrument of foreign policy. The author summarizes the good and bad of the popular idea.

Why We Should Expand Trade Adjustment Assistance

Few deny that the United States loses jobs in many industries because of free trade. Should its workers bear the burden of a free trade policy? The author argues that expanding the current Trade Adjustment Assistance program could adequately protect workers, but that the current program is not good enough.

U.S., China, and the WTO: Trading with the enemy?

This article surveys and analyzes various views in the United States on America's trade relations with China in general and China's application for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in particular. Different opinions can be heard from all sides of the political spectrum, but three distinctive camps can easily be identified in the United States regarding China's WTO membership and America's normal trade relations with China: strong supporters, fierce opponents and those between the extremes.