By Elliot J. Feldman on Posted in Trade Negotiations中文翻译请点击这里 Elliot J. Feldman conducted a webinar for The Knowledge Group on January 8, 2016 on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Set out below is the essential text of Dr. Feldman’s presentation for segment 1 of that webinar, slightly modified to recognize that the webinar was in early January. Dr. Feldman’s presentation for Segment 2 will be provided… Continue Reading
By Elliot J. Feldman and John J. Burke on Posted in Strategic & Economic Dialogue,Trade Disputes
The following article, The United States & China: Twenty-First Century Rivals Or Friends?, was published in the January 2014 edition of Corporate LiveWire Expert Guide International Trade 2014: 本文刊登于2014年一月出版的Corporate LiveWire Expert Guide International Trade 2014。中文翻译请下移鼠标。 The Obama Administration has referred to Sino-American relations as the most important bilateral international relationship of the twenty-first century. Obama’s… Continue Reading
By Elliot J. Feldman on Posted in Trade Negotiations
Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea, Japan, and China during the first week of December was to have been about bilateral issues with each country, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) with South Korea and Japan. The agenda, however, was hijacked by an urgent national security concern as Japan and China tested each other’s… Continue Reading
By Elliot J. Feldman on Posted in Trade Disputes
中文请点击这里 The Obama Administration has no trade policy and, as institutions have been functioning and trade laws have been interpreted for more than a decade, it can’t. The institutions, laws, and regulations of the United States convey control and formulation of trade policy into private hands. Although the Obama Administration might seek to wrest control… Continue Reading
By Elliot J. Feldman on Posted in Trade Disputes
中文请点击这里 The Obama Administration has no trade policy, and cannot have one. China is able to have a trade policy, and has one. China does not believe that the United States has no trade policy, and tailors its policy to react to what it interprets as choices and decisions taken by the U.S. Government. The… Continue Reading
By Elliot J. Feldman on Posted in Trade Disputes
中文请点击这里 U.S. trading partners can learn a lot from the way the United States treats the countries it actively calls its friends in trade disputes and when interpreting trade agreements. Canada is unmistakably the United States’ best friend. Despite this close friendship, the United States has not treated Canada kindly in trade disputes. The softwood… Continue Reading