Robert E. Scott
Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Research
Publications by Robert E. Scott
Blog
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March 29, 2013 | Kerry drinks the trade Kool-Aid, but trade agreements do NOT create jobs
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March 14, 2013 | Is Japan really ready for free trade?
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Feb. 21, 2013 | Obama and Abe should address currency manipulation and Japanese trade barriers
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Feb. 13, 2013 | Signing trade deals is a terrible jobs strategy
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Feb. 11, 2013 | The president can end currency manipulation with the stroke of a pen, halving the U.S. trade deficit and creating millions of jobs
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Oct. 31, 2012 | Heritage Foundation’s view on China trade and jobs is like old wine that’s aged badly
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Oct. 24, 2012 | More reasons why China’s currency should remain a live issue
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Oct. 1, 2012 | Barry Commoner, visionary environmentalist, teacher and activist dies at 95
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July 6, 2012 | Obama gets tough on China’s unfair tariffs on U.S. auto exports
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June 27, 2012 | U.S. net debt hits $4 trillion in 2011—the cumulative toll of a generation of trade deficits
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April 10, 2012 | Memo to the Times: Hold the funeral march for U.S. manufacturing
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April 2, 2012 | Who’s guarding Apple’s Foxconn chicken coop?
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March 15, 2012 | China continues to lean against the wind on need for currency revaluation
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March 14, 2012 | U.S. sends the right message with WTO complaint on China’s illegal restrictions on rare earth exports
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March 13, 2012 | The myth of the rich, hungry Chinese consumer
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Feb. 14, 2012 | Exports and growth: Running harder and falling behind
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Feb. 13, 2012 | China responsible for bulk of the U.S. trade deficit in non-oil manufactured goods
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Jan. 25, 2012 | State of the Union: Manufacturing a Better Future
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Oct. 27, 2011 | Return to profitability, new UAW contract reflect the benefits of auto industry’s restructuring
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Oct. 19, 2011 | How not to make globalization work for America’s workers: A tale of two trade deals
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Oct. 11, 2011 | Cato on China trade: Looking glass economics
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Oct. 7, 2011 | Could currency legislation lead to a trade war? Think again
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Oct. 6, 2011 | China’s People’s Bank: The lady doth protest too much
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Oct. 3, 2011 | China’s currency manipulation reached record level in June 2011
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Sept. 15, 2011 | Millions of jobs left on the table
Report
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Feb. 7, 2013 | Reducing U.S. trade deficits will generate a manufacturing-based recovery for the United States and Ohio: Ending currency manipulation by China and others is the place to start
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Aug. 23, 2012 | The China toll: Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost more than 2.7 million jobs between 2001 and 2011, with job losses in every state
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Jan. 31, 2012 | Jobs in the U.S. auto parts industry are at risk due to subsidized and unfairly traded Chinese auto parts
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Sept. 20, 2011 | Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost 2.8 million jobs between 2001 and 2010
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June 17, 2011 | Revaluing China’s currency could boost US economic recovery
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May 3, 2011 | Heading South: U.S.-Mexico trade and job displacement after NAFTA
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Nov. 18, 2010 | Huge Return on Taxpayer Investment
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Oct. 18, 2010 | China’s Subsidies to Green Industries Lead to Growing Trade Deficits in Clean Energy Products
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Sept. 20, 2010 | Rising China Trade Deficit Will Cost One-Half Million U.S. Jobs in 2010
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April 29, 2010 | Currency Manipulation—History Shows That Sanctions Are Needed
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March 23, 2010 | Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs
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Feb. 25, 2010 | Trade policy and job loss
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Dec. 31, 2009 | Restoring the U.S. trade balance—How lessons from emissions trading can inform the Buffett proposal
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Dec. 31, 2009 | Re-Balancing U.S. Trade and Capital Accounts
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Oct. 1, 2009 | Climate Change Policy—Border Adjustment Key to U.S. Trade and Manufacturing Jobs
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April 8, 2009 | Invest in America: Essential policies needed to secure U.S. jobs in the auto industry
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Dec. 3, 2008 | When giants fall: Shutdown of one or more U.S. carmakers could eliminate up to 3.3 million U.S. jobs
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Nov. 14, 2008 | An investment, not a bailout: The $25 billion rescue loan being considered for automakers would help maintain an essential industry, along with 3 million critically-needed jobs
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Oct. 2, 2008 | The burden of outsourcing
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July 30, 2008 | The China trade toll: Widespread wage suppression, 2 million jobs lost in the U.S.
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June 4, 2008 | Bailing out on America: Air Force tanker decision will ground at least 14,000 U.S. jobs
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March 3, 2008 | The importance of manufacturing: Key to recovery in the states and the nation
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Aug. 23, 2007 | The Hidden Costs of Insourcing: Higher Trade Deficits and Job Losses for U.S. Workers
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June 25, 2007 | The Wal-Mart effect: Its Chinese imports have displaced nearly 200,000 U.S. jobs
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May 1, 2007 | Costly Trade With China: Millions of U.S. jobs displaced with net job loss in every state
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Sept. 28, 2006 | Revisiting NAFTA: Still not working for North America’s workers
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Sept. 25, 2006 | China Manipulates Its Currency—A Response is Needed
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July 20, 2005 | NAFTA’s cautionary tale: Recent history suggests CAFTA could lead to further U.S. job displacement
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June 1, 2005 | Will CAFTA be a boon to farmers and the food industry? NAFTA’s failed promises doomed to be repeated
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Jan. 11, 2005 | U.S.-China trade, 1989-2003: Impact on jobs and industries, nationally and state-by-state
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April 1, 2004 | Distorting the record: NAFTA’s promoters play fast and loose with facts
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Nov. 17, 2003 | The high price of ‘free’ trade: NAFTA’s failure has cost the United States jobs across the nation
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Oct. 1, 2002 | Phony accounting and U.S. trade policy | EPI
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Oct. 1, 2001 | Where the jobs aren’t: Particular industries and states bear brunt of dislocations wrought by trade
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Oct. 1, 2001 | Fast Track to Lost Jobs
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Oct. 1, 2001 | The unremarkable record of liberalized trade: After 20 years of global economic deregulation, poverty and inequality are as pervasive as ever
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Sept. 1, 2001 | Addressing the Nation’s Needs: A Plan for Emergency Relief and Economic Stimulus
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Sept. 1, 2001 | Trading Away U.S. Farms: ‘Fast Track’ Will Exacerbate Problems With U.S. Trade and Agricultural Poli
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July 19, 2001 | NAFTA at Seven
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June 6, 2001 | NAFTA at Seven
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April 26, 2001 | NAFTA at Seven
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April 10, 2001 | NAFTA’s Impact on the States
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March 31, 2001 | NAFTA at Seven: Its Impact On Workers In All Three Nations
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Jan. 1, 2001 | FED UP: The Federal Reserve must lower interest rates now to avoid a recession, rising unemployme
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May 1, 2000 | China and the States—Booming trade deficit with China will accelerate job destruction in next dec
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March 1, 2000 | Rebuilding the Caribbean: A Better Foundation for Sustainable Growth
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March 1, 2000 | The Facts About Trade and Job Creation
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Feb. 1, 2000 | The High Cost of the China-WTO Deal: Administration’s own analysis suggests spiraling deficits, job losses
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Nov. 1, 1999 | NAFTA’s Pain Deepens
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July 1, 1999 | Exported to Death: The failure of agricultural deregulation
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May 1, 1999 | China Can Wait: WTO accession deal must include enforceable labor rights, real commercial benefits
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March 24, 1999 | Rebuilding the Caribbean: A better foundation for sustainable growth
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June 1, 1998 | Cut U.S. Interest Rates Now: How to Support the Yen and Save U.S. Jobs at the Same Time
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Jan. 1, 1998 | American Jobs and the Asian Crisis: The employment impact of the coming rise in the U.S. trade deficit
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Oct. 1, 1997 | The Cost of Trade With China (EPI Issue Brief #122)
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Sept. 1, 1997 | NAFTA and the States—Job destruction is widespread (EPI Issue Brief #119)
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Sept. 1, 1997 | NAFTA’s Casualties—Employment effects on men, women, and minorities (EPI Issue Brief #120)
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March 1, 1996 | North American Trade After NAFTA
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June 1, 1993 | Trade Protection and Industrial Revitalization
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April 1, 1991 | Reconsidering the Benefits and Costs of Trade Protection: The Case of Textiles and Apparel
Economic snapshot
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March 7, 2013 | Rising trade deficits with Japan illustrate problem with proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Oct. 12, 2011 | Trade deficit with Mexico has resulted in 682,900 U.S. jobs lost or displaced
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July 1, 2010 | Free Trade Agreement with Korea will cost U.S. jobs
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March 17, 2009 | Growing share of Big-Three vehicles assembled in Mexico
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Dec. 17, 2008 | Automaker bankruptcies would cost up to 3.3 million U.S. jobs
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Dec. 5, 2008 | African Americans are especially at risk in the auto crisis
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Oct. 1, 2008 | Non-oil trade deficit costs jobs in every state
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July 29, 2008 | China trade costs jobs in every state
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March 26, 2008 | Moving toward a sustainable dollar
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Feb. 12, 2008 | The importance of manufacturing
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Oct. 24, 2007 | China escalates dollar purchases to depress value of yuan
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June 26, 2007 | Wal-Mart’s reliance on Chinese imports costs U.S. jobs
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Feb. 21, 2007 | Manufacturing job loss: Productivity is not the culprit
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Feb. 7, 2007 | Trade deficits still rising in most industries despite strong export growth
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Oct. 4, 2006 | Broken promises: NAFTA cost U.S. jobs and reduced wages
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April 5, 2006 | ‘Insourcing’ is not creating jobs in the U.S. economy
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June 30, 2005 | Foreign liabilities are rapidly increasing, especially to foreign central banks
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June 17, 2005 | U.S. current account deficit continues to grow to record high
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June 7, 2005 | CAFTA outlook clouded by NAFTA’s failure for farmers
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Dec. 16, 2004 | Current account deficit likely to get worse before it improves
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Sept. 14, 2004 | Foreign governments finance a growing share of U.S. trade deficit
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June 30, 2004 | Rapid increase in foreign liabilities threatens U.S. recovery
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April 19, 2004 | On balance, Japan’s so-called ‘lost decade’ not so bad
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April 6, 2004 | ‘Insourcing’ myths: Jobs and insourcing
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March 29, 2004 | Soaring increase in high-tech exports from China erodes U.S. employment – EPI Snapshots
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March 24, 2004 | Foreign government intervention keeps the value of the dollar artificially high
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Jan. 14, 2004 | Soaring trade deficit threatens to destabilize U.S. financial markets
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Dec. 16, 2003 | NAFTA-related job losses have piled up since 1993
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Nov. 13, 2003 | U.S. NAFTA trade deficit surging again
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March 7, 2003 | U.S.‘s growing trade deficit fuels ballooning net foreign debt
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Oct. 2, 2002 | Disappearing manufacturing jobs and the trade deficit
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July 10, 2002 | Hard landing in store as debt deepens
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April 17, 2002 | Surging dollar contributes to growing trade deficit, job loss
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March 6, 2002 | China trade deficit threat to U.S., others
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April 19, 2001 | NAFTA-related job losses in every state
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March 14, 2001 | Growing trade deficits threaten U.S. economy
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March 6, 2001 | Trade deficits and U.S. workers’ earnings
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Feb. 7, 2001 | Manufacturing key to reducing trade deficit
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Jan. 31, 2001 | Manufacturing problems drive U.S. trade deficit
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Jan. 24, 2001 | Scale-tipping growth spurt for U.S. trade deficit
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May 24, 2000 | Job losses under the China-WTO proposal
Economic Indicators
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Feb. 11, 2013 | U.S. trade deficit declined in 2012, but goods trade deficits with China, and in non-petroleum products, rose sharply
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Feb. 10, 2012 | U.S. trade deficit up in 2011; China accounted for three-fourths of rise in non-oil goods trade deficit
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Feb. 11, 2010 | U.S. Trade deficit falls in 2009, but larger share goes to China
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July 23, 2009 | China dominates U.S. non-oil trade deficit in 2009
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June 18, 2008 | International Picture, June 18, 2008
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March 26, 2008 | International Picture, March 26, 2008
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Feb. 15, 2008 | International Picture, February 15, 2008
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Dec. 18, 2007 | International Picture, December 18, 2007
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Sept. 17, 2007 | International Picture, September 17, 2007
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June 15, 2007 | International Picture, June 15, 2007
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March 14, 2007 | International Picture, March 14, 2007
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Feb. 13, 2007 | International Picture, February 13, 2007
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Dec. 18, 2006 | International Picture, December 18, 2006
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Sept. 18, 2006 | International Picture, September 18, 2006
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June 30, 2006 | International Picture, June 30, 2006
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June 16, 2006 | Current Account Picture: June 16, 2006
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March 14, 2006 | Current Account Picture: March 14, 2006
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Feb. 10, 2006 | Trade picture: February 10, 2006
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Dec. 15, 2005 | Current Account Picture: December 16, 2005
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Nov. 7, 2005 | Trade Picture—May 19, 2000
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Nov. 7, 2005 | Trade Fax: February 19, 1998
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Sept. 23, 2005 | Current Account Picture: September 23, 2005
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Feb. 10, 2005 | Trade Picture: February 10, 2005
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Aug. 13, 2004 | Trade Picture—August 13, 2004
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Feb. 13, 2004 | Trade Picture—February 21, 2002
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Feb. 21, 2002 | Trade Picture: February 13, 2004
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May 19, 2000 | Trade Picture: May 19, 2000
Testimony
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April 5, 2011 | Leveling the playing field in U.S.-China trade
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June 16, 2009 | The status of the steel industry and U.S. manufacturing
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June 22, 2006 | Testimony on Reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank
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April 27, 2006 | Cutting Our Trade Deficit: Can the U.S. Muster Its Diverse Trade Promotion Operations to Make an Impact?
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Sept. 29, 1998 | U.S. Trade Deficits: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications
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April 29, 1998 | Free Trade in the Americas: Labor and Environmental Concerns

Commentary
June 20, 2012 | Alabama’s anti-immigrant laws put more than 13,000 good export jobs at risk
April 5, 2012 | The U.S. Export and Import Bank should help finance sales of domestic firms that compete with imports
March 28, 2012 | Institutions that support U.S. jobs should be strengthened, not gutted
April 7, 2011 | Colombia shouldn’t be rewarded with a Free Trade Agreement
Feb. 24, 2011 | Air Force tanker decision will support tens of thousands of U.S. jobs
Jan. 26, 2011 | Exports and jobs: less than half the story
Nov. 17, 2010 | Comments on the USTR investigation of China’s subsidies to green industries
Sept. 14, 2010 | China needs to play by the rules in green technology trade
Aug. 2, 2010 | “Make it in America” bills will advance U.S. manufacturing
June 23, 2010 | U.S. jobs depend on China revaluing its currency now
April 6, 2010 | China trade and jobs: Responding to myths and critics
June 16, 2009 | The status of the steel industry and U.S. manufacturing
Feb. 19, 2009 | Canada needn’t worry about Buy American rules in the stimulus
Feb. 17, 2009 | Steel industry financial wizard to join auto restructuring team
Jan. 30, 2009 | Big business lobbies for importers
Jan. 23, 2009 | Getting tough with China
Jan. 13, 2009 | Steel industry hit hard
April 17, 2008 | Pennsylvania Stagnation: Is Nafta the Culprit?
Jan. 10, 2008 | China’s currency defiance
June 22, 2006 | Testimony on Reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank
April 27, 2006 | Cutting Our Trade Deficit: Can the U.S. Muster Its Diverse Trade Promotion Operations to Make an Impact?
June 23, 2003 | Investors cleaning up while workers suffer
March 4, 2002 | Greenspan’s appointment means higher interest rates
March 4, 2002 | U.S. Workers Must Have Fair Trade
March 4, 2002 | China’s WTO Setback: A Victory for Workers
March 4, 2002 | Memo to Beijing: It’s Time for a Time-out
March 4, 2002 | The U.S. Trade Deficit: Are We Trading Away Our Future?