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We are optimistic that a deal between Canada, Mexico, and the United States to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could be reached in the coming weeks or even days. Since NAFTA first came into force in 1994, the world has become more digitized and interconnected, and new technologies have revolutionized the ways we do business. Because of this, we have always believed that a [...]
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Forty-one million jobs across the United States depend on trade. If you look around your community, there is a good chance that either yours or one of your neighbor鈥檚 jobs exist because of it. Free trade has been a catalyst for economic growth and fuel for innovation across the globe. Historic trade agreements like the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have been crucial to the economic success [...]
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The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, is coming to Washington, D.C. next week for his first meeting with President Donald Trump since the president took office. While defense cooperation between the two countries will likely dominate their talks, this first meeting between these two important leaders also presents an opportunity to address economic cooperation in ways that will serve to make [...]
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The tech industry is the most dynamic sector in history: it is highly competitive, profitable, and creates jobs around the world. Its products and services have lowered barriers to empower people in ways proven to accelerate poverty reduction, raise standards of living, and help connect people in rural areas to financial and welfare systems that had previously been in distant population centers. Technology [...]
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At first glance, data localization seems like an easy answer to questions about a wide range of public policy problems: how can governments ensure that they have access to data for law enforcement? How can they invigorate growth in domestic tech sectors? How should they best protect their citizens鈥� privacy? What policies can ensure information on the internet stays secure? All of these are good questions [...]
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Since 1947, when the post-World War II multilateral trading system came into existence, trade liberalization has incrementally rendered the traditional tools of protectionism ineffective. Governments, through both domestic reform and global and regional trade agreements, have reduced and eliminated tariffs and quotas, leading to increasing levels of international trade across all economic sectors along [...]