POLICY FORUM
Friday, July 27, 2001
8:30 a.m. (Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.) 

Featuring Daniel T. Griswold, Assistant Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Daniel J. Ikenson, Trade Policy Analyst, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

B-339 Rayburn House Office Building

Progress on trade liberalization has been stymied by two primary controversies: Should the administration be willing to place U.S. antidumping laws on the negotiating table? Should labor and environmental standards be enforced through trade sanctions? In his new Policy Analysis, "Coming Home to Roost: Proliferating Antidumping Laws and the Growing Threat to U.S. Exports," Ikenson exposes the rapid spread of antidumping protectionism throughout the world and its harm to U.S. exports. He calls for U.S. officials to work with like-minded governments to stem and reverse this tide.

Griswold addresses the second controversy in his new report, "Trade, Labor and the Environment: How Blue and Green Sanctions Threaten Higher Standards." Advocates of sanctions insist that future trade agreements, negotiated under trade promotion authority, contain such standards enforced by the threat of sanctions. However, in his new report, Griswold concludes that the use of sanctions would be counterproductive and would virtually rule out future regional and multilateral trade agreements

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