Posted on 13 September 2011 by Sara Haimowitz
The following is a WTD Trade Alert sent on 9/13/11 The path has been cleared for final Congressional action on the three long-pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea – along with renewal of expired Trade Adjustment Assistance benefits and a bill cracking down on China for...
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23 June 2011 · Sara Haimowitz
The following is a press release from United Steelworkers News. Click here to see the article online. USW Urges Congress to Oppose All Three Free Trade Agreements Cites weak American economic re...
22 June 2011 · Michael Stumo
From the Steel Business Briefing. *** US Senate Tries For Currency Stipulation For New FTAs June 22, 2011 Steel Business Briefing Legislation has been introduced in the US Senate that...
22 June 2011 · Sara Haimowitz
The following article by Gilbert Kaplan appeared in the June 21, 2011 edition of the Huffington Post. Mr. Kaplan is the president of the Committee to Support US Trade Laws. Click here to see the a...
22 June 2011 · Sara Haimowitz
The following op-ed piece by Peter Navarro appeared in the June 21, 2011 edition of the LA Times. Peter Navarro is a business professor at UC Irvine,, a CNBC contributor and the co-author with Greg...
22 June 2011 · Ian Fletcher
Click here to see this post on the Huffington Post site. In case you missed it, the Thiel Foundation, founded by Peter Thiel of PayPal fame, just announced the first batch of winners for its “20...
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22 June 2011 · Michael Stumo
Mother Jones has an article called: "Overworked America: 12 Charts that Will Make Your Blood Boil" Here are two of the charts:
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21 June 2011 · Ellen Croibier
The following article by Gardiner Harris appeared in The New York Times here. Government food officials are often sloppy and inattentive in their efforts to ensure that contaminated foods from abro...
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21 June 2011 · Michael Stumo
The high vs. low tax debate is dumb. How to tax is the better question... including whether to include a consumption tax to improve (a) our trade balance and (b) our consumption vs. production balan...
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20 June 2011 · Michael Stumo
Steven Pearlstein, a WaPo columnist, has a piece today focusing upon the now-well-know fact that offshoring causes fictitiously high U.S. productivity gains. Economists also are discovering how the g...
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20 June 2011 · Michael Stumo
Jon Huntsman wants to be president. He is a Republican, was governor of Utah, and was Obama's ambassador to China before quitting to run for president. His namesake company is Huntsman Corp., which...
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