Scott Lincicome and Daniel Ikenson

After four years of stasis on the trade front, the new post-election environment is a welcome change. Removing barriers to trade—in both directions—is essential to sustained economic recovery and long-term growth.

President Barack Obama is neither a committed free-trader nor a hard core protectionist. But his continuing failure to commit to a pro-trade agenda amounts to de facto protectionism and subverts his economic and foreign policy objectives. No Clear Signal Reacting recently to a provision in the climate change bill that would impose trade penalties against […]

There is reason for grave concern about the direction of U.S. trade policy. The bipartisan, pro-trade consensus, which served U.S. economic and diplomatic interests so well for so long, collapsed during the final two years of the Bush administration. Congressional skeptics, who helped derail the U.S. trade agenda, have increased their ranks in the new […]