Every hour of every day Americans see, smell, taste, or hear goods and services traded between the United States and other nations. Trade issues are front-page news but most Americans know little about the potential impact of global economic interdependence on their jobs, standard of living, and...

]The WTO system and democratic rights are unexpected bedfellows. The GATT/WTO requires governments to adopt policies that provide foreign products (read producers) with due process, political participation, and information rights related to trade policymaking. Because these nations also provide...

This policy brief examines how the US, the EU and Canada use trade policies to govern the Internet at home and across borders. The three trade giants use trade agreements to encourage e-commerce, reduce online barriers to trade, and to develop shared policies in a world where technology is...

Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Chapter 1: How Trade Agreement Critics Redefined the Terms of Trade -- Chapter 2: Same Agruments, Different Context: A Brief History of Protectionism from 1789 to the 1960s -- Chapter 3: How the GATT Came to Intersect with...