The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Future of International Trade
As the major trade initiative of the Obama Administration, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will broaden trade in the Pacific and may create a template for future, global trade negotiations.
Overview
WELCOME and KEYNOTE:
2:00 pm – 2:40 pm
Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
PANEL 1: New and Possible Future Participants
2:50 pm – 3:50 pm
Canada: Laura Dawson, President of Dawson Strategic and a Former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center
China: Jeff Schott, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Japan: Edward Lincoln, Professor, George Washington University
Mexico: Luz Maria De La Mora Sanchez, Professor of CIDE, former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
PANEL 2: Key U.S. Interests
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Agriculture: Jim Grueff, Trade Consultant and former Trade Negotiator with the Foreign Agricultural Service
Business: Linda Menghetti,Vice President, Emergency Committee for American Trade
Labor: Celeste Drake, Trade Policy Specialist, AFL-CIO
NGO: Stephanie Burgos, Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam America
Documents & Downloads
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Future of International TradeDownload
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Future of International TradeDownload
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Future of International TradeDownload
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Future of International TradeDownload
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Future of International TradeDownload
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Future of International TradeDownload
Speakers
Laura Dawson
Executive Director, Future Borders Coalition
Demetrios J. Marantis
Jeff Schott
Edward Lincoln
Jim Grueff
Linda Menghetti
Celeste Drake
Stephanie Burgos
Kent Hughes
Former Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Luz María De La Mora
Former Undersecretary for Foreign Trade, Secretariat of Economy, Mexico
Hosted By
Canada Institute
The mission of the Wilson Center's Canada Institute is to raise the level of knowledge of Canada in the United States, particularly within the Washington, DC policy community. Research projects, initiatives, podcasts, and publications cover contemporary Canada, US-Canadian relations, North American political economy, and Canada's global role as it intersects with US national interests. Read more
Mexico Institute
The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship. A binational Advisory Board, chaired by Luis Téllez and Earl Anthony Wayne, oversees the work of the Mexico Institute. Read more
Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
The Kissinger Institute works to ensure that China policy serves American long-term interests and is founded in understanding of historical and cultural factors in bilateral relations and in accurate assessment of the aspirations of China’s government and people. Read more
Indo-Pacific Program
The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
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