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Rethinking Trade Policy

POLICY FORUM
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Noon

Featuring Edward Gresser, Senior Fellow, Democratic Leadership Council; Daniel Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Philip I. Levy, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.

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The proliferation of cross-border investment, disaggregated production processes, and transnational supply chains have blurred the distinctions between "our" producers and "their" producers. When the definition of an American car defies consensus or when the largest U.S. steel producer is a majority-Indian-owned firm with headquarters in Europe or when "Buy American" provisions punish U.S.-based companies, then the time has come to reexamine our premises.

Does trade policy predicated on 20^th-century assumptions make sense in the highly integrated global economy of the 21^st century? Should the assumptions that trade is a competition between "us" and "them," and that exports are good and imports are bad continue to inform trade policy? Is trade policy necessary, and if so, what is its proper role?

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