February 10 , 2004 Volume 4 Number 1
From Shanghai to Your
Home: Trade Logistics 101
So you've been eyeing a new 42 inch flat screen television and hope to
purchase it before baseball season begins. Your biggest worry is whether the
darn thing will fit in the back end of your truck or if you will have to pay
for delivery. For your new television, though, the logistics of getting it
to your home from the store are simple compared to the trip it has already
taken halfway around the world to arrive at your local store. Many of the
products we purchase have taken more exotic journeys than most of us ever
will. Read more…
Agriculture and Free
Trade: An Impossible Dream?
Our trade negotiators must feel like Don Quixote in pursuit of the impossible
dream. Read how special
interest groups and their supporters in Congress try to make negotiating free
trade agreements as futile as tilting at windmills.
Can American Workers Compete in the Global Economy?
As the weather grows colder, so too do American economic relations with the
rest of the world. This is hardly alarming to most Americans, since protecting
workers from foreign competition seems sensible. Unfortunately, our government's
favored method of "protecting" workers and industries from foreign
competition is to make imported products more expensive. This is done by applying
border taxes known as import tariffs. There's just one problem: this tactic
doesn't work. Read more…
CWT in the News
- On Jan. 28th, CWT sent
a letter to the Hill urging that sugar be included in the U.S.-Australia
Free Trade Agreement. Read
it.
- On Jan. 28th, CWT sent
a letter to the Hill urging that there be no exclusions in free trade agreements
and that our offer in the meat and dairy sectors be commercially meaningful.
Read
it.
- On Jan. 30th, CWT sent
a blast fax to the Hill urging support of AGOA III, legislation that would
both alleviate poverty in Africa and benefit American consumers. Read
it.
- On Feb. 6th, CWT sent
a blast fax to the Hill urging resistance to the U.S. sugar lobby and its
campaign to keep sugar off the negotiating table in Free Trade Agreements.
Read it.
- On Feb. 13th, CWT will
host a breakfast event on the U.S. sugar program and its impact on American
sugar producers, consumers, and foreign exporters. Click here for registration
details.
- On Thursday, March
4th, CWT will be hosting a breakfast event at La Colline Restaurant on the
impact of tariffs on U.S. consumers. A flyer with details will be distributed
soon.