Event Archives 2005

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
12:00 p.m.
U.S Farm Trade Policies: Ripe for Reform? (, , )

Clayton Yeutter, Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary and Trade Representative; Cal Dooley, Former U.S. Representative (D-CA); Brian Fisher, Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics; Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

A U.S. proposal to reduce global farm subsidies and trade barriers has breathed life back into global trade talks on the eve of an important World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong in December. Reducing those barriers will be the key to a successful Doha Round of trade negotiations in the WTO. A Cato Policy Forum will examine the prospects for meaningful agricultural trade reform at home and abroad, and discuss the potential benefits for American consumers, producers, taxpayers, and farmers. The event will highlight two recent studies from the Cato Institute and the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARE) on the opportunities to expand markets for farm products.

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Friday, September 16, 2005
12:00 p.m.
CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING
Bordering on Failure: How to Fix Our Broken Immigration System ()

Featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

There is little debate that America's immigration system is broken. More than 10 million people are living in the United States without documentation, hundreds of thousands more enter the country illegally each year, and hundreds die each year in the desert trying to cross the border. What economic and demographic forces drive illegal immigration? What are the options before Congress? Given the failure of 20 years of enforcement efforts, what approach to reform would be most likely to curb illegal immigration while still meeting our nation's economic and security needs? Cato immigration scholar Dan Griswold draws on his research to provide some answers as Congress and the administration prepare to tackle this politically charged issue this fall.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2005
12:00 p.m.
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade - John Wiley & Sons, 2005 (, )

Featuring the author, Pietra Rivoli, Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, Georgetown University; with comments by Adam Davidson, International Business and Economics Correspondent, National Public Radio; and moderated by Daniel Ikenson, Policy Analyst, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

In February 1999, nine months before anti-globalization protesters brought the WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle to a grinding halt, Pietra Rivoli witnessed a precursor on the campus of Georgetown University. A group of about 100 students had gathered, and a young woman with a microphone spoke with moral certitude about the deplorable conditions in developing world sweatshops. "How did she know this?" thought Rivoli, skeptically. Thus began Rivoli's five-year research project into the people, markets, and politics of globalization. What can a T-shirt teach us about globalization? As it turns out, quite a lot.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
12:00 p.m.
Does the World Trade Organization Serve America's Interests in the Global Economy? (, )

Featuring Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College, Grant Aldonas, Former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX.

The U.S. House will soon vote on a resolution to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization. Supporters of the WTO maintain that U.S. membership encourages trade liberalization through multilateral negotiations, while establishing a rules-based system that protects the interests of American consumers and producers. Critics see the WTO as a threat to U.S. sovereignty and a lightning rod for more general discontents about free trade. Assessing the merits of U.S. membership in the WTO will be Douglas Irwin, one of the nation's leading free-trade economists and author of the book Free Trade under Fire (2nd ed.), newly published by Princeton University Press; Grant Aldonas, a former top trade official in the Bush administration; and Rep. Ron Paul, a sponsor of the resolution to end U.S. membership.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
12:00 p.m.
CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING
The Case for CAFTA: Consolidating Central America's Freedom Revolution ()

Featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, and Daniel Ikenson, Trade Policy Analyst, Center for Trade Policy Studies.

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) would reduce trade barriers with the five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic that together compose America's second-largest export market in the Western Hemisphere. Opponents of the agreement charge that it would threaten the U.S. textile and sugar industries and that it does not protect worker rights in what are relatively poor countries.

Supporters of trade liberalization counter that CAFTA would promote trade and raise living standards in neighboring countries where we have a strong foreign policy interest. They argue that CAFTA would consolidate the economic, social, and political progress achieved in a region that was in turmoil in the 1980s but has now turned to democracy. Please join our experts for a discussion of their recent study on CAFTA.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
12:00 p.m.
Who are the Real Free Traders in Congress? ()

Featuring Sen. John Sununu (R-NH), Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Daniel Griswold, Cato Institute.

Who in Congress supports international trade free of market-distorting barriers and subsidies? In a comprehensive survey of trade-related votes in the 108th Congress, the Cato Institute identifies the 25 representatives and 24 senators who voted most consistently against trade barriers and against trade subsidies such as the Market Access Program. The study also examines "career" voting records going back to NAFTA. At this event, a free-trade senator and representative will explain why they reject both pro-subsidy internationalism and anti-trade isolationism. The study's author will then discuss the implications for trade policy in the 109th Congress.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
11:00 a.m.
U.S. Antidumping Policy Toward Chi Justified or Gratuitous? (, )

Featuring James Jochum, Mayer, Browne, Rowe & Maw, LLP, Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Import Administration; Chinese Embassy Official,* Embassy of the People's Republic of China; Daniel Ikenson, Cato Institute; Ned Marshak, Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt; Terence Stewart, Stewart and Stewart.

As the U.S.-China trade relationship has evolved and bilateral trade and investment have soared, the potential for disputes has increased. One source of increasing bilateral tension-seldom reported in the media-is U.S. antidumping policy toward China. Between 2001 and 2004, China was the target of 32 U.S. antidumping investigations-one every 45 days. Adding to the growing friction, the U.S. Commerce Department recently announced changes to its non-market-economy antidumping methodology that could make matters even worse for Chinese exporters. What is non-market-economy methodology and should it apply in cases against China? Is U.S. antidumping policy toward China justified or gratuitous? How does antidumping policy factor into the broader context of the bilateral relationship?

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* Available for your review is the Chinese Ministry of Commerce's response to the U.S. Department of Commerce's stance on Recognition of China as a Market Economy for Purposes of U.S. Antidumping Law

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