Is the Administration's Ban on Imports of Peruvian Wood a Big Deal? Yes.
On October 19, 2017, USTR announced that imports of Peruvian wood from the exporter Inversiones Oroza would be banned. Notably, the ban isn’t being executed pursuant to environmental laws such as the Lacey Act – it’s being executed pursuant to an annex to the U.S.-Peru Trade Partnership Agreement. That agreement gives the United States the…
The NAFTA Renegotiation: Seven Ways to Modernize Trade Policy
The House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee invited submissions in connection with its hearing on modernizing NAFTA. This is the Executive Summary of American Phoenix’s comments. The full comments can be found here. In the past year, the backlash against globalization has expressed itself through Brexit, the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership,…