As the U.S. Congress prepares to vote Wednesday, October 12, on free trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama, Triple Crisis notes below several important critiques from bloggers. All point to the limited reforms to the “NAFTA template” made by the Obama Administration. The scheduling of the votes on the anniversary of Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas is an irony apparently lost on congressional leaders.
Reports
Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, U.S. Trade Policy: Still Waiting for a ’21st Century Trade Agreement’
Kevin P. Gallagher, Trading Away Financial Stability in Colombia: Capital Control and the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Kevin P. Gallagher, Trading Away Stability and Growth: United States Trade Agreements in Latin America
GDAE’s research on the Lessons from NAFTA
Blog Posts
Kevin P. Gallagher, Trading Away Development: The US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Matías Vernengo, The Colombia FTA: Only Corporations Win
Timothy A. Wise, U.S. Trade Policy: Moving Backwards in the 21st Century
Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, The false promise of Obama’s trade deals
Sarah Anderson, How Obama is to the Right of Reagan on Trade
Interview
Timothy A. Wise, Obama Pushes NAFTA-style trade policy despite 2008 promise
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