Trade

Publication Date: 2006/02/27

Publication / Source: Christian Science Monitor

Author: Alexandra Marks

Americans have always been slightly suspicious of foreign investment, even as they've depended on large flows of foreign capital to fuel their economy. That tension is undergirding the current political firestorm over the sale of some port management operations to a Dubai company in the United Arab Emirates. Some members of Congress are now considering legislation that would ensure American ports will always be controlled by American-owned companies - even though the majority of port operations are already managed by foreign companies.

Publication Date: 2006/09/18

Publication / Source: Power and Interest News Report

Author: Joel T. Meyer

Meyer's article provides an overview of American unease with China, as evidenced in Congress and the media. He describes what Henry Paulson, the new U.S. treasury secretary, is doing to ensure that his upcoming trip to China will go over smoothly.

Publication Date: August 06

Publication / Source: Project Syndicate

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel Prize winning economist on state of Global Trade System and role of US, Bush administration, as spoiler. Details on missed opportunities for US and potential snow-ball effect from trend towards bilateral trade agreements.

Publication Date: 07/28/2006

Publication / Source: The Washington Post; Brookings Institution

Author: Lael Brainard

This week's collapse of the Doha round of negotiations puts the final nail in the coffin of competitive liberalization. Instead of generating an era of broad trade agreements that offer new opportunities for American workers and farmers even as they promote global development, the U.S. government has been preoccupied with a host of smaller, single country free trade agreements that offer benefits to the few while requiring a substantial amount of investment and political capital to negotiate, legislate, and implement.