Outlook for US Trade Policy for 2012-13

The Peterson Institute held a conference on US trade policy on June 19, 2012, to cover the entire range of major trade policy issues that might be addressed during the remainder of 2012 and in 2013.

Congressman Kevin Brady, Chairman of the Trade Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, delivered the opening keynote speech, providing a comprehensive overview of the trade policy outlook. Panelists from the Peterson Institute covered dimensions of current US trade policy: Gary Clyde Hufbauer on a recovery program for the WTO, J. Bradford Jensen on an international services agreement, Arvind Subramanian on a China Round, and C. Fred Bergsten and J. Jeffrey Schott on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Randi Levinas, Coalition for US-Russia Trade, commented on Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) for Russia. The Institute will be releasing new studies on several of these topics.

Event Materials

Policy Brief 12-16: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: Policy Implications
Peter A. Petri and Michael G. Plummer
June 19, 2012

Presentation: A China Round [pdf]
Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
June 19, 2012

Presentation: International Services Agreement [pdf]
J. Bradford Jensen
June 19, 2012

Presentation: Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership [pdf]
Jeffrey J. Schott
June 19, 2012

Book: The United States Should Establish Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia
Anders Åslund and Gary Clyde Hufbauer
April 2012

Policy Brief 12-10: Framework for the International Services Agreement
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, J. Bradford Jensen, and Sherry Stephanson
April, 2012

Book: Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring
J. Bradford Jensen
September 2011

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